Nov 28, 2019
I was listening to The #HCBiz Show!, featuring hosts Don Lee and Shahid Shah, earlier this year—specifically, their two-part series entitled “Selling Into Health Systems” [part 1 and part 2]. Besides being co-hosts of The #HCBiz Show!, Don Lee is the founder of Glide Health and VBP Forward [which stands for...
Nov 21, 2019
In this podcast originally published early last year, Alex Akers and I had a chance to speak with Dr. Robert Pearl about his book Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Health Care—And Why We’re Usually Wrong. Besides being an author, Dr. Pearl is former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group; he’s a frequent...
Nov 14, 2019
There are four pillars that contribute to readmissions: ensuring patients are equipped to self-manage and properly take their medications; follow-up (usually by PCPs); managing transitions of care and care coordination, which might be known as interoperability; plus avoiding medical errors. Dr. Kim Noel and I discuss...
Nov 7, 2019
Patients, families, caregivers are generating data outside of the health care setting. They are tracking exercise, symptoms, blood pressure. And they’re coming in for their appointments bearing stacks of printouts or their username and password on a little piece of paper and asking their clinicians to log in to their...