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This Is a Story About Where Healthcare Regulations Come From – Burda on Healthcare
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5-Steps to Ensure Wise End-of-Life Decision-Making
Why is it taboo to talk about death? Too often, American families avoid confrontation with death and suffer from catastrophic emotional, medical and financial consequences. Medicare spends 26% of its …
Innovation
The Future of Liberated Data in Medicine
Digitization and globalization of medical knowledge will double every 73 days by 2020.[1] When a patient enters an exam room, they will likely encounter a “Dr. Know-it-All” or come prepared …
Economics
How to Use Social Determinants of Health to Fix Reimbursements
Healthcare providers can no longer ignore the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) in the exam room. Even John Snow considered community assessment factors to identify the source of the cholera …
Economics
Should Hospitals Pay Taxes?
Many health systems and hospitals operate as Not-for-Profit (NFP), mission-oriented organizations that do not pay sales, excise, property or other taxes. In exchange, NFPs must publicly report the level of …
Economics
Pets versus Babies: Who Offers More Health Benefits at Work?
Everyone, including me, is always on employers to do more to improve the healthcare system in the U.S. We’re on them to use their healthcare purchasing power and insured-lives market …
Innovation
3 Successful Telemedicine Companies Disrupting Healthcare
In August 2017, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated the South and Southeast regions. Florida evacuated over 7 million people, 7.4 million people lost power and almost 60 hospitals throughout the …
Market Corner Conversations
MARKET CORNER CONVERSATIONS: Jeff Dunn, CEO of Redivus Health
Jeff Dunn DO / MBA and David Johnson discuss the realities of cardiac arrest inside the hospital, for patients and clinicians, in Episode 18 of Market Corner Conversations. Survival rates are …
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Surprise! Surprise! The Surprise Billing Legislation Could Usher in Government Price Controls. Nathan Bays, Guest Columnist
As the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) prepares to vote on the Lowering Health Care Costs Act, the issue of surprise medical bills will take center …
Outcomes
Cardiac Conflicts Put Payments Ahead of Patients
It seems that the Healthcare Industrial Complex (TM) is alive and well in the cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories at the top heart hospitals across the country. At least that’s …
Innovation
VIDEO of Fireside Chat: Tom DeRosa, Welltower & David Johnson: Delivering Better Care, Outcomes & Health for Seniors
David Johnson interviewed Tom DeRosa, CEO of Welltower, for a packed audience at MATTER on June 19th. Tom considers Welltower a “platform for innovation on scale” in the realm of …