Category Archives: healthcare change management
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
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
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
HHS Forging Ahead with Health IT Plans B, C and D
By Peggy Salvatore Yesterday, just as I was turning out the lights in my office, two breaking Health IT news stories came in over the proverbial transom. The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONCHIT) announced that it … Continue reading
“Post-implementation era”: Feds Release Health IT Strategic Plan through 2020
By Peggy Salvatore The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology completed its nearly year-long study delivering a wide-ranging, ambitious and forward-looking Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2015-2020 – a plan described by ONC as “one that puts the … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: The Selfie Edition
Get your Selfie stick ready to take a photo of your expression as you work your way through this edition of Health Wonk Review. You’ll capture a smile on your face, I’m sure. For pure delight, nothing matches this roundup … Continue reading
Finally, Research Solves Scarecrow’s Problem
By Peggy Salvatore MBA “If I only had a brain.” – Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz Here’s the latest place where research, technology, medicine and biology meet in new and amazing ways. From The Guardian on August 18, 2015: An almost … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: The More Things Change, The More They Cost
By Peggy Salvatore MBA When you look out over the healthcare landscape the last few years, you see nothing but uncharted territory. That goes for science and payment systems. Let’s start with very different change on the far horizon. (If … Continue reading
Looking for Healthcare’s Leading Edge
By Peggy Salvatore Health technology has become massively disruptive. Previously unimaginable leaps in personal healthcare are currently widely accepted, and that has completely changed the trajectory of where health information technology is headed. Yet entrenched entities are clinging to the … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: Hot Summer Nights, Cool Summer Drinks with Hank Stern
Hank introduces us to the concept of the “Designated Blogger” in this roundup of Midsummer Wonkery.