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Healthcare Cost Crisis- Reform Needs a “Triple A” Approach
The simmering debate over healthcare reform promises to get even hotter as the November 2020 elections approach. A Gallup poll during the 2018 mid-term elections indicated 80 percent of registered voters viewed healthcare as “very” or “extremely” important for their decision. And the stakes are high: healthcare expenditures accounted for at least 18 percent of GDP, or…
LinkedIn, 2020
How Current Wellness Program Metrics are Limited
Wellness is a $6 billion dollar industry in the United States with more than half of all employers with at least 50 employees offering programs to improve the health and well-being of their employees. This figure, however, pales in comparison to the more than $990 billion spent on employee health insurance in 2014 and the $343.8 billion in…
Corporate Wellness Magazine, 2016
This Is A “Network” Moment For Healthcare
In the 1978 movie, Network, Peter Finch plays Howard Beale, a news anchor who experiences a “cleansing moment of clarity” when he realizes that the majority of his viewers have come to accept that the problems of the day were the normal state of affairs and that there was nothing that could be done to…
The Good Health Network, 2015
Mobility in Personal Health Management can Accelerate Consumer Engagement
In my article in the June 2009 issue of Medical Tourism Magazine™, I proposed an “electronic framework” for portability of health records. It envisioned having a personal health record (PHR) system stored in a central location and directed and controlled by the consumer. I described this as a complement to the electronic medical records (EMR)…
Medical Tourism Magazine, 2013
Global Mobile Health Care An Electronic Framework for Portability of Health Records
Global healthcare (also called medical tourism) is a rapidly growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain quality medical treatment, often at significant savings, even after accounting for airfare and a short vacation. To date more than 50 countries have identified medical tourism as a national industry. While reliable statistics are difficult to…
Medical Tourism Magazine, 2009