LinkousThink

JANUARY 4, 2012

I have selected seven topics for brief comments and predictions as we start 2012: 1. Teleradiology is now so common that many hospitals don’t use the term – outsourcing radiology, at least for after-hours, is just the way things are now done in healthcare. In June 2010 I wrote that we were at the top of the hype cycle for mHealth.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

It is interesting to note that a 2012 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on this topic concluded that hospital consolidation increases healthcare costs and that physician-hospital consolidation has neither improved quality of care or reduced costs. Healthcare IT can play a major role in M & A for providers.

Health Technology 60

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

In a post I wrote here in 2012, I discussed some of the implications of low health literacy. In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates.

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Chilmark Research

JULY 11, 2016

The top-fold placement of the story was indeed nice, as was the accompanying interview suggesting that technology in general can improve population health , but the article wasn’t exactly news to the healthcare industry.

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