By Gusty Friday, 26 June 2015 Community Health Workers New England Journal of Medicine Good Health and The Potential of Community Health Workers (CHWs). Elvonda He was among the highest. Utilizers of healthcare services, that is. I had the pleasure of talking to a physician who is leading a group of...
By Gusty Thursday, 25 June 2015 anechoic effect free speech Pittsburgh Post-Gazette University of Pittsburgh Medical Center UPMC Good Health and Childish, petty and vindictive: UPMC hospitals ban sale of Post-Gazette from their gift shops. Elvonda Here's a new angle on how a healthcare organization might react to unfavorable press: Ban the sale of the newspaper in question from the...
By Gusty Tuesday, 23 June 2015 Good Health and . Elvonda I am an avid fan of the widely popular Netflix show, Orange is the New Black . I�ve been raving about the show since its first season in 201...
By Gusty Monday, 22 June 2015 Electronic Records health apps Telehealth Good Health and Apps Will Astonish. Elvonda "Now this is meaningful use!" In case you think the future for healthcare apps will be characterized by health information technol...
By Gusty Wednesday, 17 June 2015 cms health care prices Medicare pharmaceuticals regulatory capture revolving doors trade policy US Trade Representative Good Health and The US' Multinational Trade Negotiations - Trading Away Its Own and Other Countries' Current and Future Restraints on Drug Prices?. Elvonda Trade Agreements More about Deregulation than Trade International trade negotiations, especially their more technical aspects, seem far remo...
By Gusty Monday, 15 June 2015 ACP ECRI Deep Dive Study healthcare IT safety Politico Good Health and Challenging the meme that [yes, there are all these drastic flaws and problems - BUT] ... EHRs improve patient safety. Elvonda One of the most persistent memes in healthcare IT is that, for all their deficits, bugs, flaws, interferences in care, and so forth, these s...
By Gusty Saturday, 13 June 2015 PharmedOut Good Health and The 2015 PharmedOut Meeting. Elvonda The 2015 PharmedOut.org meeting is now in the history books. It featured many presentations and considerable formal and informal discussion...