Health Thought Leadership One-to-One

Deborah Green has extensive leadership experience in health information management and technology.

Deborah Green, executive vice president and chief operating officer for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) paints a picture of how far patient and public health record keeping has come since the mid-1960s and 1970s. Mandated by the Institutes of Medicine in 1991, and supposedly implemented by 2001, reinforced by president George W. Bush in 2004, where are paperless records today? When will a paperless state become closer … Continue Reading

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Joe Bohling, a principal at Berkeley Research Group, from BRG’s Dallas, TX office,  compares what can go right and what can go wrong in a organization’s culture when living out its day-to-day mission, vision, and values.

Joe Bohling coaches, advises, and at times, directs organizational change at health businesses.

We revisit the 2001 collapse of Enron as a prime example of what can go wrong. Joe contrasts that with Concentra, an Urgent Care business that owns and operates 330 facilities … Continue Reading

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Christianna Capra, CEO, Spring Reins of Hope

Christianna Capra is sharing her completed video, alluded to in the June 2012 post and podcast: They Use Horses to Train Doctors, Don’t They?

Horses for Healers is being offered for the second time as an elective in Spring 2013 through the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) at … Continue Reading

February marks the Annual National Wise Health Care Consumer Month. FAIR Health, Inc., the subject of this post and podcast, is joined by the American Institute for Preventative Medicine (AIPM) in helping to educate people on ways to be smarter and healthier consumers.

Robin Gelburd, President, discusses her leadership role in FAIR Health to provide consumers and businesses with transparency in health costs.

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Going into the hospital? Take the advice offered in Safe & Sound in the Hospital. Be sure to take someone, a care partner, to act as your advocate.

Readers awarded 5 Stars to Safe and Sound in the Hospital. The book is available on Amazon.com.

One in three patients is accidentally harmed in U.S. hospitals every year, according to a 2011 Health Affairs study. But, Karen Curtiss, author of Safe & Sound, is convinced that patients with family and friends as care partners can fill the cracks … Continue Reading

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Jason Maude and his daughter Isabel

Jason Maude, founder and CEO of Isabel Healthcare, has made it his mission to provide a point-of-care, Web-based diagnostic tool that should be on the handheld device or desktop of every physician and clinician.

The Isabel tool complements a physician’s education and experience by helping him or her make more a fully-informed evaluation of a patient’s symptoms before starting treatment. Use of the Isabel tool saves valuable time and medical resources when the diagnosis is correct from the start.

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Indu Subaiya takes center stage at 2012 Health 2.0 in Boston, MA.

Indu Subaiya, CEO and co-founder with Matthew Holt of Health 2.0 LLC, leads a health innovation events business that has grown into a movement. Health 2.0 was founded in 2007, by accident, with 40+ chapters worldwide, with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, with virtual teams working in Portland, OR, Boston, MA, and Paris, France.

The business has, and continues to bring together Indu’s passion … Continue Reading

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Christianna gets a nuzzle from one of SROH’s special horses that exhibits extraordinary powers at reading nonverbal communication cues from students and patients.

Christianna Capra is the founder and CEO of Spring Reins of Hope (SROH), that offers Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) and training, with their farm base in Pittstown, NJ. SROH’s specialized workshop, The Horse Medicine Wheel, features the intuitive and … Continue Reading

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Jay Deady

Jay Deady, President and CEO of San Diego-based Awarepoint, Inc., leverages his 22-year career that spans senior leadership positions at Eclipsys, which now is part of Allscripts, McKesson, and Cerner. Awarepoint’s employees and the employees of its hospital clients work together to achieve accountability and return on investment for their efforts using a Real-Time Locating System.

Picture all the second-by-second movement of equipment, physicians, health professionals, attendants, and patients in a busy … Continue Reading

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From the front lines, as well as behind-the-scenes, Robert Hitchcock, MD, FACEP, an Emergency Medicine physician at Manatee Memorial Hospital and Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, Bradenton, FL,  manages complex Emergency Department operations.

In his role as chief medical informatics officer for T-System, Inc. he guides strategies for addressing the critical issues that arise in hospital Emergency Departments. T-System, based in Dallas, TX, develops Emergency Department solutions by turning data into … Continue Reading

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