Tag - healthcare

Take-A-Minute: Make It Tangible

Make it tangible for me If I was to hold an apple in my left hand and ask you to close your eyes and describe it, you might say it’s red, has a stem, size of a baseball etc. If I were to hold in my right hand a megabyte and ask you to describe it, it might be very difficult. This is very similar to the ideas and concepts we have in our minds, but we fail to describe [...]

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Digital Health: Avoid the Failures

It’s not about the technology Digital Health is a new buzz word that really means the convergence of people, processes, technology, and data (PPTD) to improve how patient care is delivered and received, and refinements in operations. It is nothing new, in fact, it has been going on for some time, it has just become more prevalent with care providers as the technology and integration brings out new ways of doing things. Over the past 10 years, there has been a [...]

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How much will my care cost? It depends…

How much will my care cost? It depends… If you are reading this you might be feeling the same way I do. Recently, my son broke both his ankles going off a motorcycle jump. While registering him to be seen by my local urgent-care, the registrar asked me to pay my copay. I was happy to do so. I asked him “How much?” he responded, “Your insurance copay is based on a percentage of the total visit.” (Now this wasn’t the [...]

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