Category Archives: health economics
Why a Ban on Rx DTC Advertising Makes Me Uncomfortable
And why digital health will eventually make the ban irrelevant By Peggy Salvatore This is the fourth in a series of blogs for ePharma Summit 2016 to explore ways the pharmaceutical industry can maximize the promise of digital health. I vaguely … Continue reading
Meaningful Use Demise Opens Door to Truly Meaningful Health Tech Advances
By Peggy Salvatore MBA This is the third in a series of blogs for ePharma Summit 2016 to explore ways the pharmaceutical industry can maximize the promise of digital health. Ding. Dong. MU is dead. The pivot by CMS … Continue reading
How a Digital Strategy can Help Healthcare Solve the Triple Aim
By Peggy Salvatore MBA I am writing this in possibly the biggest week for health tech junkies all year. Last week, the Consumer Electronics Show (now simply known as CES) rolled out acres of new tech toys, many of them … Continue reading
Join us at ePharma Summit 2016 in New York City Next Month
By Peggy Salvatore MBA For the next two months, Health System Ed will be blogging about the ePharma Summit 2016 that will be held in NYC from February 29 to March2. Check out the conference details here. With my background … Continue reading
Holiday 2015 Edition of Health Wonk Review
Happy Holidays from Health Wonk Review, as we celebrate another year of news and commentary…okay, mostly commentary. Here’s our last blast for 2015. Many thanks to Julie Ferguson of … Continue reading
Challenge: Consumer Healthware and the Glut of Unstructured Patient Data
By Peggy Salvatore Remember the good old days, when times were simpler, and health technology was all about electronic patient records? Not today. The world of health technology is about telemedicine, wearables, data collection and privacy. The vast amount of … Continue reading
HWR Healthcare on Parade Edition: It’s beginning to look a lot like…chaos!
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is traditionally the official kickoff to the holiday season. Here at Health Wonk Review, a representative selection of healthcare issues is on parade this … Continue reading
A Patient’s Bill of Rights: Possible Counterbalance to Value-Based Payment
Last week’s blog explored the relationship between collection of patient data and value-based payment for patient outcomes. The fact that payments will be driven by data is one of the lesser recognized drivers of data collection, but it is of … Continue reading
A Norman Rockwell Counting Our Blessings Edition of Health Wonk Review
Such a beautiful, American scene! Freedom From Want by Norman Rockwell. Many special thanks to Brad Wright for this lovely Thanksgiving Day Count Our Blessings Edition of Health Wonk Review. (Eeek, I have … Continue reading
Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: Where are the incentives?
He always resides in the details, and you know who “he” is Last month, HHS released its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 . Until this week, I had only read some stories about it. This week, I read it. … Continue reading
