Category: Innovation

A GPS for Cardiac Arrest: In Life-or-Death Moments Clinical Apps Save Lives

Resuscitating Your Patients and Building Your Clinical Reputation The plane is in a nosedive. The sweating pilot is… Read More

By David W. Johnson and Jeff Dunn June 5, 2019

How to Improve Patient Satisfaction with Transparent Payment Systems

American healthcare patients are demanding more price transparency, affordable services and quality care. Why are they not receiving… Read More

By David W. Johnson April 12, 2019

Consumerism

Patients’ Growing Appetite for New Outpatient Care Models

If you believe in the adage “follow the money,” it would lead you to telemedicine. Analyzing billions of… Read More

By David Burda April 4, 2019

Economics

Interoperability Battle Lines: Data Freedom Fighters vs. Entrenched Data Blockers

On a cold Minnesota morning in January 2018, Fairview Health Services CEO James Hereford addressed Twin Cities business… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 26, 2019

Innovation

Why Healthcare is Spinning Its VBR Wheels

It’s like preparing and serving a seven-course meal that your biggest customer ordered only to have the entire… Read More

By David Burda March 21, 2019

Innovation

4 Data Principles Healthcare Companies Need to Advance Care Delivery

What if the healthcare industry could use data as efficiently as Amazon? What if physicians could know the… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 18, 2019

Economics

Why Proponents Are Finding Innovative Health Plan Designs a Hard Sell

When your phone company or your cable provider offers you a new and innovative service plan, your immediate… Read More

By David Burda March 14, 2019

The Big (Tech-Enabled) Shift: Turning Healthcare Consumers into Customers

Consumerism was the hot topic at this year’s HIMSS conference in Orlando and at the JP Morgan conference…. Read More

By David W. Johnson and Jill Frew March 12, 2019

Consumerism

Digital Disillusionment: Are We There Yet?

There are signs that digital health—the promised cure for everything that’s wrong with healthcare—may be slipping into the… Read More

By David Burda February 26, 2019

Innovation