The NHS is piloting an iPhone device and app that helps detect throat cancer earlier and give patients the all-clear for the disease faster.
An initial trial on triaged low-risk patients at University Hospitals of…
Value-based care (VBC) models (which I’ve previously discussed) focus on reducing cost and improving health outcomes for defined “episodes” of care, with the expected cost of these episodes determined based on health needs and…
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Happy Friday everyone! You made it through another extraordinary week. Hopefully you’re recovering from the Halloween candy hangover and your blood sugar is dropping to normal levels. I always charge a dad tax on…
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Full Disclosure: I’m not a doctor and I don’t play one on TV or this site. However, I am a patient that’s impacted by these options and so I’m writing from my informed patient…
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It’s Halloween, and there’s nothing spookier to me than Oracle Health’s announcement of a new EHR that is coming in 2025.
Those of us who have been in the EHR space for a…
When Americans step into the voting booth (or fill out their absentee ballots), many will be aware of how this election could impact healthcare issues like abortion rights or the Medicare trust. But the…
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One of the scariest things in healthcare right now is having your organization breached. While systems are sometimes breached through more traditional approaches to hacking, the most common breaches today generally occur when hackers…
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Ashley Womack is CEO of Aptarro, the newly renamed Alpha II.
Tell me about yourself and the company.
I started my career about 25 years ago. I was originally in corporate restructuring. I did…
One of the scariest things in healthcare right now is having your organization breached. While systems are sometimes breached through more traditional approaches to hacking, the most common breaches today generally occur when hackers…
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In the life of a health system CEO, there is always something to worry about.
This has been especially true for Tampa General Hospital CEO John Couris in the past few weeks. His organization has…
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