The Path to Better Health – It’s Paved with Choices What has true coercive power in any economic system? Who can affect real change? True customers. Those people or organizations who can walk away from a deal, who have alternatives, who have information, or who have multiple providers competing for their business on price, quality […]
Posts Categorized: digital health
To Control Costs You Must Control Claims
In today’s ColoradoBiz digital magazine, Andrew Neary wrote this thoughtful article on self-insured businesses. He discusses what companies can do to ensure that their goals for lower insurance costs and healthier, more productive employees are actually achieved. My blog title is a quote from his post. It gets to the heart of what many of us can do, right […]
IT as a Strategic Partner in Clinical Outcomes
Over the past 18 months, there have been numerous articles by the big consulting firms touting the importance of IT partnering with business units to play a more strategic role in the organization. With technology becoming integral to everyday business processes and to creating a differentiating user experience, common sense tells us this is true. But what about healthcare? […]
Inclusivity Leads to Innovation
While this post does not directly speak to digital care issues, it is relevant to the topic of innovation. I am actively involved with Prime Health community here in Colorado. As a co-chair of the Inclusivity working group, we are always searching for information and resources to help our members maximize creativity, innovation and productivity through inclusive business practices. […]
The Need for Simplexity within Healthcare IT
Peter Cranstone writes for CIO Review: “..In the last 30 years or so we’ve seen three major technical revolutions and interestingly enough they all have the same thing in common. First I would choose the PC and Windows GUI, secondly I propose the Internet and the Browser, and finally I would call out the Smartphone and […]