Providers tend to talk about adherence. What does it mean to stay healthy? It means life decisions every day for the patient.
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Is Your Data More Valuable Than Blood? Like the Red Cross, Do We Need a Data Cross?
Like your blood, your data can save others. Combine with data from other people and the right technology, your data can identify future cures. However, there is an ongoing debate. Who owns your data? And should you share in future profits if there are products? We need to balance individual rights against societal benefit moving forward.
Surprise Billing- A By Product of Our Broken Healthcare
Surprised billing results from doctors and hospitals negotiating with payers. When the rate of reimbursement for services is lower than a provider is willing to accept patients from that insurer are “out of network.” When services are rendered the patient may be charged double or triple the usual rate. Current legislation looks to fix the problem. This is a discussion with a doctor, hospital and payer about current solutions.
Dr. Elizabeth Teisberg- Revisiting “Redefining Healthcare”- What Do We Mean By “Value?”
Dr. Teisberg and her colleague Dr. Michael Porter helped define “Value Based Healthcare” in their seminal HBR article and later book, Redefining Healthcare. However, the definition of value is often interpreted differently by different stakeholders in the healthcare system. Dr Teisberg reviews the impetus for her original work and puts it in context for how we might think about the future.
Why Don’t You Eat Your Vegetables. What Can We Learn From Sales?
“Sales” is something of a 5 letter word in healthcare, somehow beneath doctors and nurses. However, if we can’t sell our diagnoses and treatments to our patients, it’s not likely they’ll get better. Martyn Lewis, an expert in selling discusses the overlaps.
Why Don’t You Eat Your Vegetables? Behavioral Economics and Communication in Healthcare
Rational irrationality, decisions that make no sense, are at the core of our healthcare communications- and frankly, our ability to move the needle towards better health. Behavioral economics offers a framework to study why we do what we do.