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The 14th annual National Women’s Health Week kicked off on Mother’s Day, May 12, 2013, and is celebrated until May 18. This week is a great reminder for all women to think about their health care and the key preventive actions they can take to improve...
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People with cancer are more than twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as those without, according to a new study in Health Affairs. Medical expenses can be high even for those that have insurance, thanks to co-pays, deductibles and non-covered services. In addition, many cancer patients can’t...
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This is the transcript of my recent interview with Cancer Treatment Centers of America CEO Steve Bonner. David Williams: This is David E. Williams from the Health Business Group. I’m speaking today with Steve Bonner, CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Steve, thanks for joining me...
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I had never paid too much attention to New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie until Hurricane Sandy, when I was impressed with how he put residents of his state above politics in his cooperation with President Obama on the response to the storm. Unfortunately that seems to distinguish...
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Stephen Bonner is CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). In this podcast interview he discusses CTCA’s integrative approach and its commitment to measuring and reporting quality. He also takes on a Reuters report that concluded CTCA’s claims of higher survival rates could not...
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Medication mix-up’s are a well-known source of errors and harm in the hospital. So we shouldn’t be surprised that similar errors occur in other settings, including the home. Medication Errors in the Home: A Multisite Study of Children With Cancer in the journal Pediatrics documents the high...
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Health Payment Systems (HPS) helps consumers understand and pay their bills. In this interview, HPS CEO Jay Fulkerson answered my questions about the origins of the company and what they are trying to achieve. What challenges are you trying to address? As a technology company, we look for ways to close...
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Hospitals probably have more than one hundred points of contact with each patient. These points of contact (POCs) begin before the patient is admitted and continue after the patient has been discharged. The first contact may come by a visit to one of the hospital’s clinics, a 3 A.M. call to a primary...
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Filed under: Rants & Musings, CEM, patients, CRM, PEM, Patient Equity Management, Hospital, Patient Experience Management, Family Experience Management, patient satisfaction, Patient Portal
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Patients are often confused by the medical bills they receive from providers and have difficulty matching them up with the so-called Explanation of Benefits (EOB) forms they get from health plans. The result: frustration, wasted time and bills that don’t get paid. This problem befuddles not just...
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Health care transparency leader Castlight Health has launched a tool to manage pharmacy costs and signed its first deal with a health plan: Harvard Pilgrim. In this podcast interview, Castlight president John Driscoll and I discuss: What the new pharmacy tool adds to the offerings already on the market...
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A front-page Boston Globe article on a neurosurgeon suing a caregiver for a harsh blog post is exciting but unrepresentative of the overall state of online doctor reviews. However it caused me to take another look at online physician ratings from the perspective of someone trying to find a doctor. Conclusion...
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The Saturday Evening Post has published a provocative article (How Doctors Die) by retired physician Ken Murray, making a strong case that over-treatment is rampant at the end of life. He describes anecdotes of physicians serenely accepting their death sentences and making the most of their last months...
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When I saw the MedPage Today headline, “Study: Docs in dark about complementary therapies” I assumed it meant that doctors didn’t understand these therapies. But the story described patients withholding information about what they were doing from their physicians. That’s not exactly...
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Yesterday’s Boston Globe article (Hospital charges bring a backlash) was spot on. Reporter Liz Kowalczyk nailed the topic: Hospitals are adding facility fees in the hundreds of dollars for many visits to hospital-owned physician practices, even when those practices are nowhere near the hospital...
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The recent study of the benefits of the Mediterranean diet and olive oil got huge buzz. I heard about it everywhere –even from my mother. Whenever something so definitive is released it makes sense to be skeptical. And no one’s been quicker to critique the findings than proponents of low...