athenahealthVoice: Has A Doctor From Denmark Solved Childhood Obesity?
By Eben Harrell Last year, a headline on the BBC News website caught my eye: “Have the Danes Cracked Childhood Obesity?” The article profiled Jens Christian Holm, a pediatrician in the town of Holbaek...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: 3 Technology Trends Transforming Health Care
By Mahek Shah, MD The health care industry has always been changing, but what is different about our industry now is that the pace of change has sped up. Keeping up with those changes is almost...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: How Many Doctors Does It Take To Read A Hospital Bill?
By Sylvia Romm, MD Traveling to another country can be daunting. So when a friend of mine hosted a Russian college-aged student named Anna for a year so she could take English classes, I agreed to help...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: Why It's Time To Rethink Your Hospital's Technology
For too many years, hospitals were behind other industries when it came to technology. They relied on big software packages, and ignored innovation, even as industries from manufacturing to retail...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: What Cloud Data Tells Us About The Affordable Care Act's...
The five years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been marked by political recrimination and legal challenges. Proponents of the law claim the ACA provides essential coverage to...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: Health Care Providers To Payers: We (Still) Don't Really...
While the big commercial payers try to navigate the rough waters of the health care system, unconventional players like integrated delivery networks and provider-sponsored health plans may be swimming...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: Are Health Care Providers Ready For The Facebook Generation?
By Alex Pelletier The next generation of American healthcare patient, Patient 3.0 as I like to call them, is a seamlessly connected, digitally-native person who relies on the mobile device as their...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: Shouldn't Patient Data Be As Easy To Access As Cash From...
By Doran Robinson We all know what connectivity looks like – even when we’re not thinking about it. You experienced it the last time you withdrew money from an ATM owned by one of your bank’s...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: What Doctors Aren't Learning In Medical School And Why It...
By Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA In the 1960s, America’s doctor was Marcus Welby, a family physician who made house calls, didn’t charge patients who couldn’t afford it, and maybe even delivered a calf on...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: It's Time To Modernize The HIPAA Privacy Rule
By Dan Orenstein Here is a thought-provoking statement about the HIPAA privacy and security rules: These rules were required by the 1996 legislation to support the exchange of health information. They...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: Can Cloud Technology Fix The Health Care System?
By Todd Rothenhaus, MD It’s no secret that the U.S. health care system is broken. It’s plagued with splintered information, wasteful duplication, and a severe lack of insight into the health of a...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: The Hidden Costs Of Healthcare IT
By Kristi Matus The United States is wasting an enormous amount of money on health care. Numerous factors are pushing up prices, including a broken fee-for-service model that encourages unnecessary...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: How 'The Blockbuster Drug Of The Century' Is Helping...
Patient engagement has proved it can both lower costs and improve health outcomes.
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: How One City Is Fighting Asthma (And Saving Money)
In July 2012, asthma attacks among a group of nearly 200 children in Lowell, Mass. plummeted 76 percent compared to the previous year. Emergency room visits for asthma dropped even more. As the...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: Hospitals Collaborate To Provide Better Health Care In...
Health care’s future is about working together.
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: Critical Healthcare Lessons For Serving High-Risk Populations
Traditional approaches to managing high-risk populations contributed to rising costs that soared from 9 percent of GDP in 1980, to more than 18 percent of GDP and rising. Significant gaps in the care...
View ArticleathenahealthVoice: Does Your Health System Need Population Health 101?
Population health management has made significant inroads due to the emergence of various integrated delivery systems including patient-centered medical homes, hospital-based readmission prevention...
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