by Brenda Hopkins | Nov 29, 2022 | Digital Health
American families are confronting harsh financial realities of late, from rising unemployment and sluggish wage growth to high food and fuel costs and tight credit. Added to these worries are soaring health care costs, and the severe erosion of adequate health...
by Brenda Hopkins | Oct 18, 2022 | Digital Health
Many companies have been unsuccessful in identifying the right data strategy that can give them sustained competitive advantage. Lack of data maturity has been a reason for this failure. To achieve their data ambitions, organizations need to focus on the impact areas...
by Brenda Hopkins | Sep 7, 2022 | Digital Health
The Transparency in Coverage Final Rule, issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), requires health insurers to disclose pricing for covered services and items. Insurers must include the rates they have...
by Brenda Hopkins | Apr 4, 2022 | Continuum of Care, Digital Consumer Health, Digital Health, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare IT, Informatics, Mobility
The ViVE conference this week brought together the leadership of CHIME and the digital marketplace of HLTH to create a technology event focused on the business of healthcare systems. An important discussion I had between 3 health system CIOs was around how cloud...
by Brenda Hopkins | Mar 4, 2022 | Continuum of Care, Digital Consumer Health, Digital Health, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Design
Health Information Technology (HIT) environments are a compilation of decisions made at different times, by different people, for different reasons, some long term, some short term, some regulatory, some departmental, some strategic, some reactive, some budgetary,...
by Brenda Hopkins | Jan 1, 2020 | Digital Health
It is day nine of our 12 Days of Christmas Posts and we rounded up these 9 ladies in health IT. The debate still continues if 2019 is the “Year of the Woman”. The fight continues for equal pay and equal access. The dialogue continues on #metoo and...
by Brenda Hopkins | Jan 1, 2019 | Nurses
BY JANE SARASOHN-KAHN ON 28 DECEMBER 2018 IN CONSUMER EXPERIENCE, DOCTORS, HEALTH CONSUMERS, HEALTH POLITICS, HEALTH RATINGS AND REPORT CARDS, NURSES, PHARMACY, PHYSICIANS, POPULAR CULTURE AND HEALTH, TRUST Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth...
by Brenda Hopkins | Jul 21, 2018 | Digital Health, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Design, Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare IT, Informatics, Mobility, outcomes
In the history of healthcare information technology, there is clear evidence that technology systems have been designed to provide individual solutions, instead of considering a provider’s workflow holistically. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, practice management...
by Brenda Hopkins | Jun 25, 2018 | Digital Health
What do you consider to be the most-hyped and most-promising healthcare technologies? If you were to look at in media today, in my opinion, block chain is hyped. People don’t even know what it is. It’s moving so fast. You would think that in an industry like...
by Brenda Hopkins | May 17, 2018 | Informatics
“I love documenting patient encounters,”said no clinician ever. Clinical documentation is a time-consuming source of frustration for physicians and nurses, yet a necessary evil for any hospital and health system that wants to keep its doors open and its lights on....
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