Tweet The healthcare industry faces many regulatory changes in the coming years—ICD-10, HIPAA 5010, Meaningful Use and other information technology (IT) updates. However, the industry needs to be aware of another fast-approaching, lesser-known set of regulations regarding disclosure of financial conflicts of interest (FCOI). In 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published [...]
Tweet As you probably know by now, we assist clients in developing strategic, sustainable social media campaigns that are meaningful to their target audiences. What you may not know is that before embarking on this project, we perform a full social media assessment because every company is different and not every social media platform is [...]
Tweet HIMSS is only a week away, and everyone is on information overload. More emails, more meetings, more news. So, how do you prioritize what you read and what you skip? HIStalk has been around since 2003 and remains one of the premier online resources for healthcare technology news as well as one of the [...]
Tweet Dodge client Tim Kelly from Dialog Medical attended the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s National Forum this week and came away impressed with outgoing CMS Administrator Dr. Donald Berwick’s presentation on the six major causes of healthcare waste in the US. He provides additional insights in this post. Donald Berwick, MD, former CMS Administrator, spoke [...]
Tweet Michaela Kraft, marketing management at Philips Speech Processing, met with us to discuss her company’s recent social media initiative. Dodge: Tell us a bit about Philips’ history, your current business model and the challenges you face. Kraft: Philips Speech Processing, with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria is the worldwide market leader in the professional [...]
Tweet Kathleen Plath, VP of marketing at Specialists On Call, recently met with us to discuss her company’s recent rebranding initiative. In a sea of telemedicine vendors that provide the technology, but not the specialists behind it, Kathleen’s company has been on a mission to be heard above the chatter. Dodge: Tell us a bit [...]
Tweet I learned a great deal at the 2011 Healthcare Summit at Jackson Hole. It was very interesting to spend time with professionals that are serving the industry in ways that I never imagined, building businesses and tracking the trajectory of the industry as it moves toward a more patient-centric focus. I spoke with Ray [...]
Tweet Jon Mayhew’s company provided the memorable t-shirts for all the attendees at the 2011 Healthcare Summit at Jackson Hole. We had a chance to meet and discuss his unique slice in the healthcare industry dealing with Social Security and disability. Dodge: Can you describe your business to our readers? Mayhew: I run a government [...]
Tweet Alan Zloto, D.O. is the owner of a private internal medicine practice in Tampa, FL. In the following entry, he weighs in on how healthcare reform is impacting physician practices. What impact have recent healthcare reform initiatives, such as the HITECH Act, had on your organization? We’ve had to convert all files to paperless [...]
Tweet I was pleased to re-connect with Kevin Holst at the 2011 Healthcare Summit at Jackson Hole. Kevin goes way back in healthcare IT. I first met him when he worked with Charles Halfpenny in the early 90s, then again when he was at Intellicare (now Sirona Health). He’s now the president at Health Resource [...]