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Silicon Valley’s health-tech start-ups need to stop getting in so much trouble

Lloyd Price

Theranos is everyone’s favorite example of that, but Elizabeth Holmes is far from the only bad actor. The growth at all costs mindset isn’t going to work in this space,” said Billy Deitch, an investor at Oak HC/FT, a venture firm that focuses on health. Elizabeth Holmes, former CEO of Theranos leaves the Robert F.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Operating departments in HC organizations will risk near-term KPIs to invest in intelligent automation that reduces the burden of administrative work and frustration on their staff Googling “staffing crisis in healthcare” just now returned 12 million posts and articles. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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Paying for value. I’m overwhelmed. Please read this.

Society for Participatory Medicine

As you may know from previous posts, I sit as a patient/caregiver stakeholder on a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) technical expert panel (TEP) about Quality Measurement Development: Supporting Efficiency and Innovation in the Process of Developing CMS Quality Measures. An example is readmission rates. What a mouthful!