Celebrating The Healthcare Entrepreneur
Gary Ahlquist, senior vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton, presents specialized perspectives, including the strategy-driven transformation of insurance companies, health plans, and health providers.
“It’s clear that the future of health care in the U.S. will be consumer-centric, but exactly how this will play out is still coming into
focus,” Ahlquist says in a recently co-authored paper […]
Informing and empowering the modern consumer
In this era of “personal responsibility,” today’s modern consumer faces daunting challenges. In this post I discuss some of the things consumers need to become informed and empowered, so they make good decisions and act responsibly when it comes to selecting the best treatments and adhering to them.
It’s obvious that consumers need valid, understandable information […]
Connecting the Dots: A Dynamic Evolving Vision
Knowledge is powerful medicine. It reduces healthcare costs and improves the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of care delivered.
Patients and their caregivers are empowered by using new communication technologies so as to improve their access to health knowledge (and even wisdom), self-care, decision support, referral, consultation and triage services.
The current trend towards consumer-driven healthcare and […]
Marketing Female Sexual Dysfunction
Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D. introduces an educational campaign that challenges the myths promoted by the pharmaceutical industry and calls for research on the many causes of women’s sexual problems.
The pharmaceutical industry wants women to think that sexual problems are simple and offers drugs as magic fixes. But positive sexual experiences require accurate, unbiased information.
The FSD-Alert […]
UK Patient Focused Panel Discussion: How to Reach the Female Consumer?
In this UK Building Better Businesses in Healthcare panel
How to reach the female consumer? She is more assertive, she intends to make her own choices, and she actively seeks out information prior to any consultation with a healthcare practitioner, and when she goes into the GPs office, she wants an active and equal dialogue […]
Opportunities for the Convenient Care Industry in 2007
As of January 2007, there are approximately 280 Convenient Care Clinics (CCCs) located in communities throughout the country. The Convenient Care Association predicts that there will be 400-500 CCCs open by December 2007. So, what does the future hold for the Convenient Care industry in 2007, aside from continued growth?
First, the Convenient Care Association is […]
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 […]
How Social Computing is Transforming the Healthcare Industry
At the forefront of a wave of innovation and entrepreneurialism taking place in online healthcare, OrganizedWisdom (http://www.organizedwisdom.com) is a health-focused social network for consumers, physicians and anyone with health wisdom to share. Leveraging the “Wisdom of Crowds,” OrganizedWisdom aligns doctor-reviewed and user-generated health content to help people make better health decisions. Its patent-pending technology […]
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 […]
Adventures in Compartment Syndrome & Shattered Knees
On the lighter side, here is an interview that I (Peter) did with my brother Michael after his Grand Targhee snowboarding accident on day two of his trip to Jackson Hole. It is an audio with slides type presentation, aptly titled Mikey’s Big Adventure.
We had a few Red Stripes in our system while the audio […]
