Tweet Mannequins, task-trainers, standardized patients, virtual patients…these are all types of simulations. But what do they mean to the healthcare industry? Simulation is nothing new to medical students training to become the doctors and nurses of the future. However, there’s significant opportunity for long-practicing healthcare professionals in the use of simulation. For starters, as accountable [...]
Tweet The healthcare industry is bracing for a potential bombshell in late June. The individual mandate, a key portion of the 2009 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), may be overturned by the Supreme Court. While the mandate is just one provision in the extremely expansive healthcare law, a lot hinges on its constitutionality. [...]
Tweet Key Points to Note in the ACO Regulations I recently returned from the American Medical Group Association’s (AMGA) annual conference in DC where accountable care organizations (ACOs) were a hot topic of conversation. The long-awaited regulations regarding ACOs were published on March 31 so many folks were still trying to fully understand what the [...]
Tweet Also at the 2011 Healthcare Summit at Jackson Hole, I talked with Chris Coloian, principal at Assabet Ventures and the Chairperson at the Care Continuum Alliance. Dodge: Chris, tell our readers about your business. Coloian: We are a management advisory, consulting, and business development firm helping early-stage and transitionary companies with their strategy and [...]
Tweet I had the opportunity to get an invitation to last week’s 2011 Healthcare Summit at Jackson Hole. This is the first year of an invitation-only event, light on content and heavy on relationship development. I caught up with the event’s organizer, Dave Bjork, president of Telcare, on his concept behind the event. Dodge: What’s the [...]
Tweet Unlike other marketing disciplines, public relations offers the broadest and most expansive opportunity to educate target audiences with the highest credibility because of its nature as “earned” media versus “paid” media, e.g., advertising. It also enables medical device companies to achieve “thought leadership” status for its executives, researchers and physician champions through the publication [...]
Tweet Rob Culbert is the president of Culbert Healthcare Solutions, a professional services firm serving healthcare organizations in the areas of operations management, revenue cycle, clinical transformation and information technology. In this blog post, he stresses the need for successful alignment strategies. The healthcare industry is buzzing right now about accountable care organizations (ACOs) and [...]
Tweet Since passage of the Patient Privacy and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) earlier this year, there has been a great deal of talk about Accountable Care Organizations. They are still ill-defined, but more and more information is coming to light. In fact, an FTC/CMS/OIG Workshop on ACOs being held Oct. 5 in Baltimore. Those unable [...]
Tweet The term “accountable care” grew out of studies at Dartmouth Medical School which tracked the variation of quality and cost of care across the United States. Their findings showed that cost and quality were not always in alignment and that regions that spent a lot of money on healthcare did not always reap the benefit [...]