The Beryl Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It's been an important realization for me to see that the way in which I look at the patient experience is dependent on my orientation to it at the time. Most of the time, I look at it through my professional eyes, using the Experience Framework and the Eight Lenses of how to operationalize improvement. When I am actually experiencing the need for medical care, my orientation shifts.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), less formally known as the Stimulus Bill.

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Health Dialog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. The CDC has found that 30.3 million U.S. adults have diabetes and an additional 84.1 million have prediabetes. Unfortunately, in many cases prediabetes is not being diagnosed and addressed until it is too late. Patients are facing an uphill battle with behavior change, unique barriers to progress, and inadequate disease education.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Information is power in the hands of people. When it’s open in the sunshine, it empowers people — whether doctors, patients, researchers, Presidents, teachers, students, Everyday People. Welcome to the era of Open Source Healthcare, not only the “about time” for patients to own their health, but for the launch of a new publication that will support and continue to evolve the concept.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

CVS Health’s acquisition of Aetna was approved this week by U.S. Federal regulators after months of scrutinizing the antitrust-size-market control implications of the deal. I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health envir

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