HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It involves automating the most time-consuming forms of outreach and giving patients “admin” access so that they can self-service various functions at the touch of a button (via a text or chatbot). Playing phone tag and digging up yet another username and password combination is not the kind of active involvement patients are seeking.

Patient Satisfaction 98

Patient Satisfaction COVID-19 Hospitals 98

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

the opposite of a simple price tag. Price transparency and an emphasis on a la carte services are a major boon to providers in the direct-to-consumer healthcare space. In the traditional healthcare system, the price you pay for services depends on your insurance coverage ?

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Nurses 98

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.”

Public Health 62

Public Health Health Care Access Hospitals 62

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

HIPAA 98

HIPAA Health Insurance Doctors Medical Billing 98

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

The annual conference of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) convened this week, and I was grateful to attend and speak on the evolving retail health landscape yesterday. Gary looked back at that era, realizing his father’s understanding of consumer needs at retail. medical system in terms of direct costs.

Health Insurance 59

Health Insurance Hospitals Medicare Medicare 59

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Designed to shed light on the true cost of drugs and to ensure that consumers and insurers aren’t being gouged, drug pricing transparency laws seek to level the playing field by delivering greater visibility into drug costs.

Prescription Drug Pricing 52

Prescription Drug Pricing Compliance Governance 52

Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

She handles and advises on high-profile and highly confidential cases in this area for clients across a variety of industries, including consumer products, pharmaceuticals, entertainment and technology, economic consulting and immigration. And if you’re a consumer, you’re like, “Oh, it’s a subscription fee.”

Telemedicine 49

Telemedicine Fraud Governance Compliance 49

SQA

JULY 19, 2023

Tag us on social media with #SQAAlreadyHere, or email your photos to media@sqaservices.com. I have enjoyed seeing a broader spectrum of the industries from which I came, Aerospace and Energy , by observing how other companies are solving similar problems. Don’t forget to send us your Already Here photos! How can we help you?

FDA 98

FDA 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Healthcare enterprises that rapidly built up virtual care through ready-to-deploy consumer technologies are looking closely at the suitability of the platforms for enterprise-level scaling. I discuss a few of these and their potential impact on healthcare consumer experiences. The future of telehealth seems assured.

COVID-19 213

COVID-19 Hospitals Medicaid Medicaid 213

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

This digital platform will enable contact-tracing employees to reach more individuals in a short amount of time and create various digital channels for the consumer to interact with the contact tracing program. Phone calls are the primary method currently, but plans are underway to augment the calls leveraging a digital platform.

COVID-19 125

COVID-19 Hospitals Telemedicine Governance 125

SQA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the near future, you will see more creative ways to support patient and consumer safety within the stay at home and remote environments. Tag us on social media with #SQAAlreadyHere, or email your photos to media@sqaservices.com. Please feel free to send answers/comments to these questions to me directly at mmckay@sqaservices.com.

Nurses 88

Nurses Medical Device Industry FDA Hospitals 88

Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

At the conference, Talkspace sounded as though they were pivoting and de-emphasizing their direct-to-consumer offering going forward, looking more to employers, health plans and employee assistance plans. They do have a consumer business, with about 2 million paid users. David Cordani took a different view.

COVID-19 98

COVID-19 Medicaid Medicaid Nurses 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

My staff knows to tag me in any questions that are outside the norm so the answer comes from me. "Klara allows us to follow patients in real time in an unprecedented manner and truly follow our results over time to allow us to provide our patients with the consumer value they deserve," he said.

Doctors 174

Doctors Patient Satisfaction HIPAA Hospitals 174

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I’ll be honest, it was refreshing to hear a President & Co-Founder of a healthcare IT company celebrating the dropping of the word “interoperability” from their tag line. This cohort spans EHR vendors, digital health platforms, patient engagement applications…including any consumer of the Kno2 Communication API.

Health Outcomes 59

Health Outcomes Hospitals 59

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And on the consumer side, wouldn't it be nice if you had the ability to see not just what you're doing in that visit, but at the same time, in the same experience, access to "How am I doing on chronic condition management? Before I joined Teladoc, I worked for Memorial Sloan Kettering. This is a hard problem. What did Disney do?

Telemedicine 158

Telemedicine COVID-19 Doctors Hospitals 158

SQA

MAY 24, 2021

Before bed I hear Carrie tell Steph to take a Motrin for her headache (likely caused by an excess of margaritas) made by McNeil Consumer Health – an awesome partner over the years. She is action-oriented and builds rapport well with customers, suppliers, stakeholders, peers, partners, and direct reports. Hey Associates!

COVID-19 52

COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Medical Device Industry FDA 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.

COVID-19 184

COVID-19 FDA Hospitals Elder Care 184

Hall Render

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Inflation and interest rates, including as to the Consumer Price Index (“CPI”), dominated headlines this year. According to a mid-year report from Revista, 163 new hospital projects began in 2022 and several of those projects had price tags at or above $1B. Inflation and Interest Rates Dominate Headlines.

Hospitals 40

Hospitals COVID-19 Nurses Medicaid 40

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In addition, each round of IVF is expensive and time consuming. Following the hypothetical above, as the number of cycles required to become pregnant skyrockets from one or two to twelve, the price tag also goes up from $30,000 to $180,000 or $360,000. A single cycle of IVF costs an estimated $30,000.

Fraud 257

Fraud Licensing Medicaid Medicaid 257

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

TigerTouch allows providers to control communication by initiating communications with a patient’s cell number via text message, thus solving phone-tag and voicemail problems. TigerTouch is designed to help healthcare providers improve patient experiences, the company said, by providing: Direct engagement with healthcare providers.

COVID-19 161

COVID-19 Nursing Homes Doctors Nurses 161

Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. Let’s start with weight-loss, as several aspects of health/care come together in the consumer’s retail health sandbox.

FDA 62

FDA Telemedicine Health Care Access 62

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Joe’s to buy part of big Onondaga County orthopedic surgery center for $25 million NewYork-Presbyterian nurses push back on alleged doubling of retiree healthcare costs New York hospital names 1st surgeon CEO Northwell VC arm backs company detecting emotions with AI in $12.7M

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Nursing Homes Nurses 40

Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

Rhode Island Ranked as the Second-Worst State for Doctors The Centurion Foundation’s purchase of Roger Williams and Fatima hospitals would rely on bond funding In Bethpage, The Safe Center creates mental health clinic School district, pediatric urgent care partner to provide mental health services King nominated as permanent R.I.

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Hospitals 40