Knowledge, Standards, and the Healthcare Crisis

What can be done to drive continuous improvements in care safety, quality and efficiency, which would enable people to remain healthy longer, manage chronic conditions more effectively, and receive the best possible healthcare delivered in the safest and most economical way? What will it take to foster widespread knowledge creation, use and evolution in our healthcare system? Why must developing a national health record system be so expensive? Aren’t there any easy, inexpensive ways to do it?

Step-by-Step Blueprint for Employers to Achieve Healthy Company Status: So What? Return on Investment

Chris Kersey, MD, of RediClinic: Michael Samuelson, The Health & Wellness Institute, David E. Wilson, Wilson Partners, LLC, and Moderator Jerry Reeves, MD, Health Innovations, LLC speak about Return On Investment at Consumer Health World.

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Convenient Care: Consumers as Partners in Healthcare Decision-Making?

Are health care consumers being empowered and positioned for success or manipulated and positioned for failure? How consistently and how fairly do we deliver quality care to all parts of our population?
What are the appropriate and changing roles of health care providers, such as physicians, nurses, PAs, nurse practitioners, office assistants. Medicine is a team […]

Convenient Care: Retailers Providing Healthcare Services

One of the newest and most talked about trends in consumer health is the merging of retail locations and health centers. The attributes of choice, convenience and control are now called Convenient Care.
Convenient care has enjoyed rapid growth in the past year. The most important constituent is the consumer, and convenient care clinics have been […]

Interview: Philip Polakoff, ACS Healthcare Solutions

Health is a sense of complete physical, emotional, and social well-being, not merely the absence of infirmity and illness.
Interoperability, quality, and transparency are all important. On the prevention side, we are not putting enough energy into the issue. Smoking and obesity are on the rise. Our system is innefficient, inneffective, and no one is […]

Interview: Greg Scandlen, Consumers for Health Care Choices

The Commonwealth fund recently came out with a report that was based on an online survey that, according to Greg Scandlen, founder of Consumers for Health Care Choices, was not very accurate. The Commonwealth Fund and EBRI surveyed about 3,000 people and found 28 people who had Consumer Driven Health Plans and concluded that there […]

Interview: Robin Felder, Medical Automation Research Center, University of Virginia

Robin wants to eliminate health insurance companies and create a single payor system combined with Health Savings Accounts. The government would act as a safety net for catastrophic situations.
Technology will only be useful if it applies to the proper financial infrastrure. Why not create Health Savings Plans and incentivize people to judiciously manage their health […]

The Blogging Revolution: Why Healthcare Will Be Transformed and How Other Industries Show the Way

Steve Rubel of Edelman talks about trends in technology, search and social networking. There is an erosion of trust in institutions such as the church, corporations, major league baseball. People do want to trust each other and turn to other individuals for credible information. People can use technology to bypass institutions to disseminate information to […]

Interview: Michael Samuelson, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island

Michael Samuelson, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, chair of the Health, Wellness and Prevention track of the Consumer Health World conference thinks a a paradigm shift is inevitable – the recognition that whether you want the system to change or not, it will change because it is broken.
The current treatment model, […]

Interview: Nav Ranajee, ABN Amro

Nav Ranajee discusses the opportunities for banks and financial services companies to play a role in the consumer directed health care movement.