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EHR Vendor Pays $18M to Settle Kickback Allegations | MedPage Today
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What Else is New?
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EHR Vendor Pays $18M to Settle Kickback Allegations | MedPage Today
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Across 15 Industries – Including Healthcare
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Dear David,
For many companies, 2020 has been a devastating year due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the same can be said for the digital health sector, the pandemic has also paved a way to unexpected and extraordinary business opportunities in 2021.
Explore the top 5 business opportunities for digital health companies in 2021. Where is the money?
I am happy to share with you Ralf Jahns, MD of Research2Guidance latest opinion piece. If you have any questions or need more insights, facts or data to tailor the text and make it unique, please do not hesitate to contact me. I can arrange a short call with Mr. Jahns.
Thank you for your time.
Stay safe and healthy.
With warmest regards,
Stela Nikolova
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The Future of Digital Health***
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THOUGHTS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE?
Courtesy: https://lnkd.in/eBf-4vY
Artificial Intelligence (AI), is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.
Leading AI textbooks define the field as the study of “intelligent agents”: any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals.
LINK: https://lnkd.in/eWx3WjZ
Colloquially, the term “artificial intelligence” is often used to describe machines (or computers) that mimic “cognitive” functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as “learning” and “problem solving”.
QUERY: But, what about AI in medicine?
UPDATE: https://lnkd.in/dtvMQCA
HEALTH EXECUTIVES: https://lnkd.in/e6GmXje
MEDICINE: https://lnkd.in/eSzCXFA
LIABILITY: https://lnkd.in/dmW7rjZ
RELATED: https://lnkd.in/d3eBuWD
Your thoughts are appreciated.
THANK YOU
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ZOOM IN – ZOOM OUT
By: Staff reporters
“Lately, Zoom meetings have been hitting a nerve with CEOs”.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says there’s no vital “creative combustion” happening in virtual settings. American Airlines CEO Doug Parker finds Zoom meetings awful.
And Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls them transactional, where “30 minutes into your first video meeting in the morning … you’re fatigued.
“What we as human beings need, want, seek … is human contact,” Nadella says.
Now members of the C-suite have gone full boomerang on Zoom meetings. After finding them awesome and productive at first, they’re now questioning how much they really achieve and are suggesting they lead to a sterile work culture lacking in imagination.
Dimon is particularly worried about how working from home has affected JPMorgan’s younger employees. He told analysts that productivity had dipped, especially on Mondays and Fridays. Dimon says bringing people back to the office is paramount to fostering creativity.
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US Patent Publication – Who Owns Your Medical Info?
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Eases Burden on Rural Medical Providers
By Health Capital Consultants, LLC
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Executive Order Expands Telemedicine and Eases Burden on Rural Providers
On August 3, 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at expanding access to care through two avenues: telemedicine and eased financial burdens on rural providers. The executive order builds on President Trump’s original expansion of coverage for telemedicine services in early March 2020, an order which was praised by the American Telehealth Association (ATA) and American Medical Association (AMA) for swiftly responding to the growing healthcare crisis. This Health Capital Topics article will discuss the executive rule and the subsequent agency actions on these fronts. (Read more…)
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What is the Difference – Know the Difference
By staff reporters
Both an EMR and EHR are digital records of patient health information. An EMR is best understood as a digital version of a patient’s chart. It contains the patient’s medical and treatment history from one practice. Usually, this digital record stays in the doctor’s office and does not get shared. If a patient switches doctors, his or her EMR is unlikely to follow.
By contrast, an EHR contains the patient’s records from multiple doctors and provides a more holistic, long-term view of a patient’s health. It includes their demographics, test results, medical history, history of present illness (HPI), and medications.
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“Medical Management and Health Economics Education for Financial Advisors”
CMP® CURRICULUM: https://lnkd.in/eDTRHex
CMP® WEB SITE: https://lnkd.in/guWSApq
Your thoughts and comments are appreciated.
BUSINESS, FINANCE, INVESTING AND INSURANCE TEXTS FOR DOCTORS:
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End-to-End
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Exposed -or- Hidden by the Corona Virus Pandemic?
Courtesy: https://lnkd.in/eBf-4vY
By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
The DIGITAL DIVIDE is any uneven distribution in the access to, use of, or impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) between any number of distinct groups. These groups may be defined based on social, geographical, or geopolitical criteria, or otherwise. Because of ICT high cost, its adoption and utilization is highly uneven across the globe.
LINK: https://lnkd.in/eWx3WjZ
Now, FCC chairman Ajit Pai had a theory. He reckoned that Internet access on a phone is as good as high-speed broadband access at home.
ESSAY: https://lnkd.in/eQKesAf
QUERY: But, are digital health devices even accurate?
ESSAY: https://lnkd.in/eFrR7zF
Assessment: Your thoughts and comments are appreciated.
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BUSINESS, FINANCE, INVESTING AND INSURANCE TEXTS FOR DOCTORS
1 – https://lnkd.in/ebWtzGg
2 – https://lnkd.in/ewJPTJs
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The Heart of the Health Care Enterprise
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Harris Poll of Doctors
[By staff reporters]
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On John Searle and his Paper
The Chinese room argument holds that a digital computer executing a program cannot be shown to have a “mind”, “understanding” or “consciousness”, regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the computer behave.
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Digital Health & Tele-Medicine are NOT 21st Century Concepts!
[via Igor Korolev DO, PhD]
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Fritz Kahn, a physician, author, and illustrator imagined the future of medicine nearly 100 years ago!
MORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Kahn
This 1926 illustration shows “The Doctor of the Future” providing patient care remotely using a telecommunication system & medical devices that track various physiological & health information (electrocardiogram – ECG, X-ray images, temperature, respiratory function, blood pressure).
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Chief Medical Information Officer
Courtesy: www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org
[Including Interview Preparation List and Study Rubric]
By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA
Last year I was a job finalist as Chief Medical Information Officer for the State of Georgia. It did not get the job. And yes, it was before the data breech at the State House, Health Insurance Commissioner’s Office and Court House.
FOREWORD: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2008/02/29/richard-j-mata-md-ms-ms-cis-cmp%e2%84%a2-hon/
The CMIO was a C-Suite executive position responsible for championing institutional security. Physician awareness of electronic and HIPAA policy and procedure developments, while working to ensure compliance with internal and external standards related to medical information security, was vital. The CMIO was appointed, and reported, directly by the Governor.
And so, I developed the following list of duties and responsibilities in my preparation quest. It is offered to those seeking similar opportunities. No guarantees, implicitly or explicitly, are implied. Good Luck!
RUBRIC: https://healthcarefinancials.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/hit-security.pdf
Conclusion: And so, your thoughts are appreciated.
THANK YOU
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Ever Expanding
[By staff reporters]
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Assessment: Your thoughts are appreciated.
BUSINESS, FINANCE, INVESTING & INSURANCE TEXTS FOR DOCTORS:
THANK YOU
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Trust with Caution
By Rick Kahler CFP
Early this year, dozens of expatriate Americans living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, found out that an employee of Monex Bank had emptied up to 158 accounts of some $40,000,000. Many of the customers lost their entire retirement savings. The employee had worked for the bank for 20 years. Apparently she had been siphoning off money from accounts for months and sending the depositors fake statements to cover the disappearing funds.
According to an article by David Welch that appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek on May 23, 2019, the banker had promised these depositors “fat returns” in investments that would be immune to the peso’s fluctuations. Such promises are common to many fraudulent schemes where investors are duped out of their money.
“Too good to be true”
In this case, the all too familiar scam of promising returns “too good to be true” was promulgated by an employee of an international bank with assets of $5.2 billion. Even more unusual is that while the bank said they would make their customers whole again, only one of the 158 had received all of his funds back at the time the Bloomberg article was published. A bank employee admitted that was a mistake and asked the depositor to send back a portion of the check.
One of the defrauded investors was quoted as saying, “Part of this is my fault. I wasn’t even remotely suspicious.”
Such trust is exactly what scammers and con artists rely on. The most important vulnerability they exploit is ignorance. We tend to think of financial predators taking advantage of the poor, the elderly, and the uneducated. To some extent, this is certainly true. But the poor have no monopoly on financial ignorance.
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In order to make money from their schemes, scammers need to target people with enough money to be worth preying on. The ability to earn a lot of money and the ability to manage money wisely do not necessarily go together. The infamous Bernie Madoff, remember, cheated some wealthy and sophisticated investors out of million.
Some of the qualities that make us vulnerable to financial predators come from our own human flaws. We’d all like to believe those promises of faster, easier ways to make a lot of money or save a lot of money.
Some of our vulnerability, though, comes from our best selves. Scammers exploit our willingness to trust and even the integrity that can lead us to assume others are as honest as we are.
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Taking action
Protecting yourself from financial predators requires being honest with yourself about the qualities that make you vulnerable. It also requires a willingness to take action to protect yourself, in several ways.
1. Acknowledge what you don’t know and ask for advice—from someone who has nothing to gain from whatever decision you make.
2. Educate yourself from neutral, reputable sources. There are countless websites, books, and classes to help you learn about investing and managing money.
3. Listen to your own feelings. If anything seems too good to be true, you probably know at some level that something isn’t right and the wise choice would be to say no.
4. Channel your inner skeptic. Any time someone offers you an incredible opportunity to make a lot of money, ask yourself what’s in it for them. Chances are they are working for themselves, not for you.
5. Pay attention. Read the fine print. Read account statements. Ask questions. If your queries are brushed aside, be willing to be that “difficult” customer who keeps asking.
Assessment
Finally, don’t be your own worst enemy. Don’t trust blindly. Don’t assume someone else will look out for your best interests. That responsibility is always up to you.
Conclusion: Your thoughts are appreciated.
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The Cloud Lowers the Total Cost of Ownership
[By staff reporters]
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Assessment: But, what about health information technology?
Your thoughts are appreciated.
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Circa 2019
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Can You Avoid It?
[By staff reporters]
Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents), or doxxing, is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual.
The methods employed to acquire this information include searching publicly available databases and social media websites (like Facebook), hacking, and social engineering.
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Doxing is therefore a standard tactic of online harassment and has been used by people associated with 4chan and in the Gamergate and vaccine controversies.
The ethics of doxing by journalists, on matters that they assert are issues of public interest, is an area of much controversy. Many authors have argued that doxing in journalism blurs the line between revealing information in the interest of the public and releasing information about an individual’s private life against their wishes.
MORE: https://www.gohacking.com/what-is-doxing-and-how-it-is-done/
THINK: HIPAA
Conclusion: Your thoughts are appreciated.
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Professor Marcinko Appointed to Medblob Advisory Board
By Richard S. Tannenbaum; MS
[Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer]
At Medblob, we manage healthcare data for patients, providers, and research organizations. Our leadership team is from multi-disciplinary back grounds, including medicine, software and research. And, our advisors have broad experience and training in clinical medicine, insurance and healthcare information technology companies.
So, we are pleased to announce that Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP® has just been appointed to the Advisory Board of our company.
About Medblob™
The Challenge:
One of the biggest challenges for providers is having all of the patient’s medical information, at the point of care.
The Solution:
Medblob™ is an emerging and secure military encrypted and HIPAA compliant health information exchange and data warehouse, known as HealthFile™, that aims to have medical information available at the point-of-care so clinicians are able to make better decisions to improve their patients’ health.
The Outcome:
MedBlob™ solves a major cause of medical errors and preventable death: inaccurate or missing health information.
Assessment
Member of Medblob’s Advisory Board composed of medical, legal, and financial experts assisting the management team in the company’s mission of improving public health and outcomes for patients. Medblob Advisory Board was chartered to provide advice to the executive team regarding the company’s strategy, development, market positioning, and growth trajectory. LifeBook is Medblob’s military-grade secure patient electronic health record that acts as a single source of truth health record, medical data platform, and Network as a Service (NaaS).
Board of Advisors Link: http://www.medblob.com/board-of-advisors/
More: Please contact us to get involved in the future of healthcare information technology!
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Robots Used in Chinese 3D Printed Dental Implant Surgery
[By Bertalan Meskó MD PhD]
Two 3D printed dental implants have been autonomously placed in the mouth of a volunteer patient by the world’s first autonomous surgical robot.
The hour-long procedure, supervised by surgeons from the Fourth Military Medical Institute took place in Xi’an, central China, and used a robot jointly developed by the hospital and the robotics department at Beijing’s Beihang University.
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Symptoms checkers have the potential to belong to the solution suite that will open up the traditional healthcare system for digital health solutions, similar to telehealth or chronic patient’s self-management services. They not only allow patients to remotely 24/7 access advice on their symptoms but are more and more used also by HCPs to support their diagnosing process.
The following list of next generation of symptom checkers shows current ranges of services, reach and business models.
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Market potential is big. 400 million people especially in developing economies lack access to essential health services. The situation in developed economies is different. Shortage of doctors, especially in rural areas also exists but the problem that symptoms checkers could address is the large amount of doctor visits. In the USA alone there are around 1.3 Bn visits to GPs in a year. Japan has an even higher GP visit numbers as people tend to go 3 times more often to a doctor compared to their US counterparts.By reducing the number of HCP visits (here only GP visits are shown), symptom checkers promise to have a significant impact on healthcare costs within each country. Regardless whether 5% or 10% of GP visits will be made obsolete, the cost saving potential is enormous. In the US alone a 5% reduction would lead to annual cost savings of 8 Bn EUR! Second biggest market opportunities are in Japan with potential cost savings of 6 Bn EUR, followed by Germany and Canada (1 Bn EUR).
Not surprisingly payer organizations in western countries have started to offer symptoms checker solutions to their member base but also to HCPs. For example, Ada and German health insurer Techniker Krankenkasse(TK) are offering the symptoms checker in emergency rooms. Patients insured by TK might be asked to complete in a waiting room an assessment on Ada. Depending on the results, the patient may be redirected to a nurse or a doctor. In another trial run with a large NHS GP clinic, 14% of patients that completed an Ada assessment in the waiting room said that if they had used Ada at home, they would not have felt the need to come to see the doctor that day.”
Babylon a telehealth service also using symptoms checkers is now embedded into Samsung Health, which is available on millions of Samsung mobile devices in the UK and US, and has recently signed major partnership agreements with Tencent, Bupa and Prudential.
Companies wanting to enter the market should hurry up as development times of symptoms checkers are long and existing players are closing deals with payers and tech companies at high speed. Ada, for example, claims to have spent seven years to build up their database of symptoms and recommendations, while integrating more than 6.000 diseases linked to symptoms including 1,100 rare diseases curated by HCPs.
On the other side, payers, pharma, hospitals and tech companies that want to enrich their service offering with next generation of symptoms checkers are urged to start selection and further on integration process of next generation symptoms checkers as prices go up quickly and flexibility to incorporate specific change requests will go down with increasing success of symptoms checkers.
P.S. If you need any insights or quotes about the digital health, digital diabetes and / or the digital respiratory markets, please do not hesitate to contact me. I will be happy to provide you with reliable data and latest market insights.
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New Studies Seek to Define Clinical Efficacy
[By Catalyst @ Health 2.0]
Preliminary results from the Apple Heart Study show the potential health benefits of wearables. Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine partnered with Apple to conduct a virtual observational study with more than 400,000 participants. The study used the Apple Watch’s irregular rhythm notification (IRN) system to detect atrial fibrillation (AFib). The results showed 0.5% of participants received irregular rhythm notifications. For those who were notified, 21% received and wore an ECG patch. Of those, Afib was confirmed 34% of the time. The positive predictive value of the overall study was 71%, however, this increased to 84% for the subgroup who also used an ECG patch. It should be noted that the study has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Johnson & Johnson’s HEARTLINE Study aims to build on the Apple Heart Study. Announced back in January, the virtual clinical trial will enroll 150,000 Americans 65 years and older to detect AFib and collect outcomes data. Participants will be randomized to either receive the Apple Watch 4 or no watch at all. Compared to the Apple Heart Study, one key technical design difference allows the HEARTLINE Study to draw a clearer connection between AFib observance and confirmation. Instead of waiting for an ECG patch to be mailed to the participant, the ECG app on the user’s Apple Watch 4 will be engaged once the “IRN software detects five out of six consecutive irregular rhythms each lasting one minute.” Both the IRN software and the ECG app are FDA cleared for AFib detection. Although the clinical efficacy of wearables is far from conclusive, the innovative use of virtual clinical trials will likely be commonplace in the future with the continued proliferation of consumer-driven health technologies.
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Twelve Years of Tunes Just Vanished
A Metaphor for EHRs?
[By staff reporters]
According to the MIT Technology Review, MySpace has lost all the music uploaded during its first 12 years
The company’s data protection officer blamed it on a server migration, and said it had lost over 50 million songs from 14 million artists.
A while coming:
All music on MySpace (aw, remember?) from 2015 and earlier stopped working about a year ago. Originally, the company said it was working on the issue, but it has been forced to admit all the data has been lost (no, it didn’t have any backups.)
A niche issue:
Okay, most people don’t keep their only copy of a particular record on MySpace. But the fact that so much material can be lost in one fell swoop is a reminder that the internet is not an archive. If you don’t have a physical backup, files can be lost, regardless of how unlikely that might feel.
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EHRs: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/projects/biggest-healthcare-data-breaches-2018-so-far
Assessment: Any thoughts relative to this topic or the emerging FB situation? How about electronic medical records [EMRs], etc?
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MIT Technology Review
The latest issue, MIT Technology Review revealed 10 breakthrough technologies, chosen by Bill Gates, that he thinks will change the world for the better. We thought it only fair (and fun) to come up with a corresponding list of 10 “bad” technologies.
A hard choice: What makes them bad? Well, it could be because they fail to achieve good aims, or succeed in wicked ones. They could be harmful, flawed, or ahead of their time.
Sad: The Segway turned out to be an expensive scooter that makes you look silly. Google Glass, on the other hand, makes the list as a decent technology that just lacked decent enough uses when it launched.
Bad: Electronic voting made the cut for making elections more vulnerable. The CRISPR babies born in November 2018 are on there too, because indiscriminate uses of the technology should worry us. Data trafficking, where our data is shared and used without our control, is undermining freedom and democracy—it had to be one there.
Mad: Of course, some inventions have no redeeming features whatsoever. May we present: selfie sticks.
Assessment: Read the full list here.
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
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Random Drivel?
[By Vitaly Katsenelson CFA]
What I am about to share with you is somewhat random drivel about a topic that has been very important to me in 2018 – time.
I am anything but an expert on it; and in fact, as you’ll see, this is something I fail in and am trying to fail less.
Conclusion
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DOCTORS:
“Insurance & Risk Management Strategies for Doctors” https://tinyurl.com/ydx9kd93
“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
HOSPITALS:
“Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/yagu567d
“Operational Strategies for Clinics and Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/y9avbrq5
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A Survey
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DOCTORS:
“Insurance & Risk Management Strategies for Doctors” https://tinyurl.com/ydx9kd93
“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
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How Secure is PHI?
[By staff reporters]
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Conclusion
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DOCTORS:
“Insurance & Risk Management Strategies for Doctors” https://tinyurl.com/ydx9kd93
“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
HOSPITALS:
“Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/yagu567d
“Operational Strategies for Clinics and Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/y9avbrq5
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SAD
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Conclusion
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“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
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A Big Data S.W.O.T Analysis
[By staff reporters]
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[A Pharmaco-Economics Journal Report]
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MORE: Healthcare Economics
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“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
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A Physician and Consumer Willingness Survey
By http://www.MCOL. om
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Conclusion
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“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
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SMILE!
[By staff reportes]
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Assessment
Your thoughts are appreciated.
RESOURCES:
“Insurance & Risk Management Strategies for Doctors” https://tinyurl.com/ydx9kd93
“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
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THANK YOU
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OR … Not!
[By staff reporters]
A Medical Office Exam – FROM THIS EMR VISIT!
Your privacy is not protected.
We use Electronic Health Records.
[Courtesy Dr. DK Pruitt]
A Medical Office Exam – TO THIS PMR VISIT!
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Assessment
Beware – No medical specialty is immune! Which office visit style do you prefer? Are we “Back to the Future?”
Conclusion
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“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
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By Medical Specialty
Courtesy: http://www.MCOL.com
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Conclusion
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“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
HOSPITALS:
“Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/yagu567d
“Operational Strategies for Clinics and Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/y9avbrq5
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Two Rap Videos
[By staff reporters]
Can you believe these videos are two years old?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TveJLAi_y4
Conclusion
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“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
HOSPITALS:
“Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/yagu567d
“Operational Strategies for Clinics and Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/y9avbrq5
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Medicaid Program Policies
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Conclusion
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“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
HOSPITALS:
“Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/yagu567d
“Operational Strategies for Clinics and Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/y9avbrq5
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Electronic “Disease” Registry Data Used to Identify Care Gaps
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Dear Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA
I am happy to share with you, and your readers, Research2Guidance’s latest digital health article “How digital business models impact the value chain of health insurers“.
Health insurance companies have started to make use of digital technologies to reinvent the way they interact with their members and health care providers. Innovation is mainly driven by insure-tech companies raising hundreds of millions of investment money. Established health insurers must know new insure-tech digital business models to understand their impact on both value chain and market position.
“We think, in 3-5 years from now, these digital business models will be widely implemented globally” – says Ralf Jahns, Managing Director of Research 2 Guidance. “Asia and North America will lead but there will be and already are implementations in Europe as well“.
Thank you for your time!
P.S. If you, or your ME-P readers need any insights or quotes about the digital health insurance market, please do not hesitate to contact me. I will be happy to provide you with reliable data and latest market insights.
Kind regards,
Stela Nikolova
[Research2Guidance]
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Five [5] Benefits and Five [5] Barriers
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“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
HOSPITALS:
“Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/yagu567d
“Operational Strategies for Clinics and Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/y9avbrq5
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More on Mobile Health, Tele Health and e-Health
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Conclusion
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“Fiduciary Financial Planning for Physicians” https://tinyurl.com/y7f5pnox
“Business of Medical Practice 2.0” https://tinyurl.com/yb3x6wr8
HOSPITALS:
“Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/yagu567d
“Operational Strategies for Clinics and Hospitals” https://tinyurl.com/y9avbrq5
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Filed under: Information Technology | Tagged: e-health, m-Health, Mobile Health, Tele-Health | 2 Comments »
A Binary Verbal Opinion Poll
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What grade would you give the state of EHR in 2018 on a national basis with physicians and hospitals, and are there aspects that have fallen well short of your past expectations of where we would be today?”
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TELL US WHAT YOU THINK?
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