FUSION | HEALTH360°
Creating Partnerships In HealthGLOBAL SUPPORT?
We usually separate the business articles from the healthcare topics but I felt this was quite relevant. Before you set up the overseas infrastructure, don’t forget to remember that wonderful thing called Service Level Agreements:
FastCompany had a naturally insightful article on the virtual global infrastructure. Read the BUSINESS360° entry on Knowledge Process Outsourcing.
THE DIALOGUE WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN, Part II
PHYSICIAN SERIES, PART II
During our meeting with Dr. Bart Romanek, an established physician working in the outskirts of Austin, the veteran practitioner takes head-on the country’s current hospital building boom with specific opinions on the needs of a rural and suburban town. We discuss whether the sprouting of small-town hospitals are helping the local communities or actually creating a disservice in the flawed models it oftentimes becomes victim to. He is not embarrassed or hesitant to point out the drastic financial differences of the predominantly hometown doctor to the faithful disciples of the “Dr. 90210″ and “nip/ tuck” generations.
THE DIALOGUE WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN
PHYSICIAN SERIES, PART I
In the heart of rural Texas – just in the fringes of the state capitol – the HEALTH360 team conducted preliminary interviews with a range of pediatricians and general practitioners to get a gauge on industry positions on the current climate of healthcare reform, emergence of new technologies, and evolving operational paradigms.
The purpose of the information gathering campaign is to perform a market audit on what the technology providers are currently offering physicians and how it has been received by the healthcare community. We wanted to connect the venture capital buzz in Woodside, CA or Waltham, MA to the reality on the ground – specifically with the neighborhood doctors.
DISRUPTING the STATE of HEALTH CARE, PART 2
POST HURRICANE – THE CRISIS | I was in Louisiana 2 months after Hurricane Katrina. The state was experiencing a public health crisis that hadn’t received much press compared to the political back-and-forth between the Feds, state and local officials in the news shows and in the late night comedy shows.
In that emergency state conference with over 30 hospital CEOs from across the state, I came upon the idea on how to change the country’s ailing health system.
DISRUPTING the STATE of HEALTH CARE, PART 1
BOSTON – SECURING FUNDING | “$5 million wouldn’t be enough. You’re looking at closer to 20.” The venture capital executive deducted. This was a litmus test as I had mentioned that Vincent (name changed), alongside me, is a tech executive currently servicing the US Army. Sean wanted to see if we were up to the challenge of actually delivering on the product.
“So you’ve found the Holy Grail of healthcare.” Sean (an alias as well) leans back and clasps his hands around the back of his blonde head.
INITIATIVE: ADOPTION & SUSTAINABILITY
To all the folks who put *too much emphasis* on the techology instead of the practicality of a solution – take heed of the iPhone before we all start talking about the future of Healthcare Information Technology!
I was seated across a CIO for a major hospital network after work picking his brains on his hospital’s on-going EMR ramp-up. In the heart of the world’s largest medical center in Houston, this fellow New Yorker and I were sharing stories of the old neighborhood. While talking about the Sopranos and the challenge of finding a good pizza in town, he was talking about the extensive travelling he has been doing lately, getting his over 100+ hospitals connected to their new EMR system.
PEDIATRIC CANCER, DIABETES: A NEW APPROACH
HOUSTON – THE CHANGE | The HEALTH360° media and technology platform was developed for the dual purpose of empowering the patient and the physician while laying the groundwork for a revolutionary approach to information collection, distribution, and mining while not requiring end-users and providers to modify their existing technology infrastructure. And to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban health, and the international community – our partners specifically utilizes current military-based technologies and consumer-friendly media engines to promote actual adoption.
BIRD FLU
A REAL THREAT | Why do we still view this threat as an abstract dooms-day scenario? Could it be because some projections forecast anywhere from 30% of a general population perishing from this potential pandemic? I recently attended a Pandemic Disease Tabletop Exercise (a RealTime emergency management day-long drill) and even amongst some of the most dedicated health and governmental professionals involved in Bird Flu, the challenge of truly appreciating the gravity of this disease was extremely evident. Maybe because many have not been to regions that have been affected by epidemics such as SARS and have experienced these things first-hand.
I myself have been exposed to governmentally mandated screenings right off the airport gate in Hong Kong en route to London during the peak of the SARS outbreak on my way back to New York a few years ago. To those who continue to cling on to a false sense of security – beware. Avian Flu is extremely real to the people that have already died from this evolving killer. Read the rest of this entry »
