January 2011

Anticompetitive behavior from insurers, providers harms patients

In an op-ed in the Detroit News, George Pantos, executive director of the Healthcare Performance Management Institute, expressed dismay about the wave of mergers triggered by the healthcare reform law. As insurers and providers take steps to limit competition, ordinary patients lose out, he writes. 
 
Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis?
 

The Detroit News: Health care mergers: An emerging crisis

By George Pantos
 
Advocates of the president's health care reform package have expressed alarm over a wave of mergers spurred by the new law.
 
Johns Hopkins Medicine, for instance, is snapping up hospitals in the Washington, D.C.-area, a move it describes as "driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network."

 

The Telegram News: E-Health--It's communication

By Dr. Larry Garber

 

When you have your annual physical, do you ever wonder what the doctor is writing in your medical record? Certainly, Elaine did in the 1996 “Seinfeld” episode, in which she tries to steal her own record from the physicians who secretively guard it. Though the show draws out the situation to an extreme, it does raise a good question about how medical records are used. Have you seen your medical record? Are you using your medical information to help improve your health?

 

Healthy Business Radio Show Interviews George Pantos

HPM Institute Executive Director George Pantos appeared on the Healthy Business Radio Show on January 4, 2011 to discuss how employers are turning to technology to reduce health costs and improve employee health behavior. The focus of the radio show broadcast weekly from Atlanta to the local and national business community is that a "healthy workforce is a competitive advantage."

 

How Technology, Analytics and Big Data Are Transforming Healthcare Delivery

How Technology, Analytics and Big Data Are Transforming Healthcare Delivery  In today’s digital age, a growing number of employers are embracing technology, analytics and big data to ...

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It’s a small world after all - staying connected on business travel in Australia

[HealthBlog]
Yesterday morning I arrived in Brisbane, Australia. After a 14 hour direct flight from LA, I was more than ready to get a little exercise before heading full speed into this year’s multi-city busine...
Monday, February 11, 2013 9:42 AM GMT

Commonwealth Fund report examines challenges facing doctors internationally

[Health Care Finance News]
Communication and teamwork across healthcare systems appears to be a nearly universal challenge, according to a survey of nearly 9,800 primary care physicians representing 11 nations. The Commonwealth...
Monday, February 11, 2013 9:41 AM GMT

Health cost transparency on the W-2: sticker shock at the point-of-paystub

[HealthPopuli]
If you receive health insurance benefits from your employer, you’ll see a new line item on your W-2, courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service: the cost of employer-sponsored group health plan co...
Monday, February 11, 2013 8:21 AM GMT

Readmission Prevention Effort Focuses on Colon Surgery Patients

[Health Leaders Media]
Characterizing current dischargeinstructions as lacking "a systematic implementation methodology," researchers have created guidelines suggesting which post-surgical events should prompt p...
Saturday, February 09, 2013 8:00 AM GMT

What if health care…?--Susannah Fox

[e-patients.net]
For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking frien...
Friday, February 08, 2013 12:16 PM GMT

How Companies Can Foster Healthy Employees

[The Wall Street Journal Health Blog]
Many employers offer wellness programs to contain their health-care costs—and perhaps also improve morale and productivity.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:00 AM GMT

Implementation of Affordable Care Act Provisions to Improve Nursing Home Transparency, Care Quality, and Abuse Prevention

[Kaiser Family Foundation]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the first comprehensive legislation since 1987 to expand quality of care-related requirements for nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid and improve f...
Friday, August 31, 2012 8:32 AM GMT

CHVI: For Specialty Solutions in Cancer Care, Less Can Be More

[Center For Health Value Innovation]
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A Smarter Planet — The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel...

[Healthnex]
The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel Interactive Dialogue Date: Wednesday, September 22, 4pm ET Location: The IBM New Intelligence Video Studio, http://www.livestream.com/newintelligence Descri...
Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 PM GMT

How to Win Friends and Influence Millennials: Health Exchanges Edition

[The Health Care Blog]
By MIKE MIESEN America is only a few months away from Exchange Day—October 1, 2013—when the state and federal health exchanges open up for business. And when they do… well, I’d surprised if a ...
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