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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. There are many considerations when EHRs collide. Other non-clinical considerations.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

“A major challenge of mobile health is the high drop-off rate in sensor and app usage. 40 In one survey, more than half of users of activity trackers stopped using their device, and a third did so in the first 6 months. “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

In addition to offering a generous employee benefits package, the hospital collaborated with the Massachusetts Nursing Association — its RNs’ collective bargaining arm — to offer employees up to $2,000 in incentives for maintaining their health. Boston Business Journal named the hospital a Best Place to Work in 2012, 2014 and 2016.