Horrocks Chad MD Family Practice
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Five Accelerants to the Adoption of Connected Health
I’m often asked, ‘If you could snap your fingers and do some things to accelerate the adoption of connected health, what would they be?’ I’ve resisted responding, thinking that things …
Advocates' Guide to Implementing Value-Based Insurance Design
Learn how to encourage adoption of value-based insurance design (VBID) in our health insurance system. This guide explains options at both the federal and state level. Around the country, advocates working to improve the health outcomes and value that our health care system delivers are exploring ways to implement VBID.
Hospitals provide much more than health care
Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System provide quality medical care to patients.
High-deductible health plans promote increased wellness program participation
The growing use of HDHPs and CDHPs is further pushing employee engagement in making better healthcare decisions, with an additional increase in wellness program awareness and participation.
A physician tells a health insurance CEO what she really thinks
Let me know if you want to actually want to help people, or just your company and stockholders.
How You Could Get Hit With a Surprise Medical Bill
The Surprising Health Tip That Doctors And Bosses Should Recommend
A new study found that giving back results in 38 percent fewer hospital stays.
How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?
The problem is not the care. It’s the insurance company structure.
How Big Data Could Transform The Health Care Industry
Emerging technologies are paving the way to the personalized medicine of the future.
Map Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Health Across US
A new report from a wide-ranging group of doctors details the effects that climate change will have on the health of all Americans.
Why Are Americans Less Healthy?
A new health and mortality analysis reveals that the United States ranks last among 17 developed nations.
How health apps are promising to reshape healthcare
Two executives from a digital diabetes-management start-up discuss the importance of a patient focus and ways innovation is shaping the industry.
High-Need, High-Cost Patients: Who Are They and How Do They Use Health Care?
Twelve million Americans have three or more chronic illnesses, as well as a functional limitation that hinders them from performing basic tasks such as getting around the house. A new study shows who the sickest adults are, and how the health system is or isn't working for them.
What the senior and aging care industry wants from digital health innovators
There’s no getting around it: we’re all getting older. Nearly 100 million people in the United States are over the age of 50, and those over the age of 65 make up the biggest, most expensive user group of healthcare.
How Hurricane Harvey Could Affect Public Health
Physicians and other professionals are scrambling to contain a multitude of epidemics that might arise after the flood.
How Legal Services Health Care Address SDOH
Chart outlines the specific ways that legal services help health care improve health and well-being.
Is Meaningful Use working and what can innovators do to help with EHR adoption?
Earlier this year NueMD created a nice looking Meaningful Use Infographic — asking the question whether MU was helping or hurting EHR Adoption. I loved the summary but I wanted to dig in a little further so I asked Dr. William Rusnak, a resident physician… Read More
How Legal, Regulatory Challenges Limit Telehealth Adoption
An AHA report provides insight into the myriad legal and regulatory challenges in the way of increase telehealth adoption and use.
How to Increase Physician Adoption of Virtual Care
The Clinical and Patient Benefits of Virtual Care<br>Telehealth has slowly been taking the healthcare industry by storm as more states allow for reimbursement of telehealth services, but physicians, primary care providers, and specialties have been slow to adopt...
What makes cardiology unique when it comes to AI adoption?
“Exponential growth in computing power and digital data have led to a so-called ‘digital transformation’ of most sectors of the economy. Healthcare is the last sector to undergo digital transformatio…
