Crossover Health | Innovation

15 May Going off the Grid – The Rise of "Direct Practice" Medicine

Posted at 22:06h in Change Agents, Entrepreneurship, For Employers, Healthcare, Innovation, Transparency, Value by michelle 11 Comments

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Grid (grĭd) n. Something resembling a framework of crisscrossed parallel bars, as in rigidity or organization An interconnected system for the distribution of electricity or electromagnetic signals over a wide area, especially a network of high-tension cables and power stations. The interconnected system employed by the Medico-Industrial...

29 Apr True Insurance: Removing the Moral Hazard

Posted at 04:55h in For Employers, Healthcare, Innovation, Insurance by michelle 3 Comments

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True (trū) adj. 1. Consistent with fact or reality; not false or erroneous 2. Real; genuine, rightful; legitimate, fundamental, or essential 3. Accurately shaped or fitted and conforms to rule, standard or pattern I recently came across an article so good that I thought it should be republished in...

23 Apr Millenial Patients: Care Delivery for the Next Generation of Patients

Posted at 08:31h in Consumerism, Crossover, For Employers, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, Value by michelle 4 Comments

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Generation (jĕn'ə-rā'shən) n. A group of individuals born and living about the same time. A group of generally contemporaneous individuals regarded as having common cultural or social characteristics and attitudes. A stage or period of sequential technological development and innovation. * This is a reposting of the article I...

21 Apr Personalized Medicine: Back to the Future

Posted at 10:29h in Consumerism, Crossover, For Employers, Innovation, Value by michelle 2 Comments

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Personalized Medicine (pûr'sə-nə-līz d mĕd'ĭ-sĭn) The type of sing molecular analysis to achieve optimum medical outcomes in the management of a patient’s disease or disease predisposition, Right treatment for the right patient at the right time. As I have mentioned in several of my posts, I have been working...

16 Apr Millennial Health Care Delivery

Posted at 13:34h in For Employers, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, Transparency by michelle 5 Comments

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Millennial (mə-lĕn'-əl) adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years 2. Generation of Americans younger than 29 in 2007 with unique social, cultural, and market identity * This is a companion piece to an article called Millenial Patients that will appear in MDNG...

18 Mar The Lawrie Dowry: Misys Acquires Allscripts in Shotgun Wedding

Posted at 00:05h in For Employers, Innovation, Open Source, Transparency by michelle 3 Comments

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Dowry (dou'rē) n. Money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage. A sum of money required of a postulant at a convent. A natural endowment or gift; a talent. Misys PLC has offered to acquire struggling Allscripts "the leading provider of...

05 Mar Health 2.0: The Long Tail of Health Care

Posted at 17:44h in Conferences, For Employers, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, Quality, Rational Choice, Transparency, Value by michelle 3 Comments

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Long Tail (lông tāl) New business phenomenon in which low distribution and storage cost enable significant profits to be realized by selling small volumes of niche items instead of large numbers of popular items. The potential for online retailers to make more money than their...

03 Mar Health 2.0: The Prelude

Posted at 12:13h in Conferences, For Employers, Health 2.0, Innovation by michelle 1 Comment

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Prelude (prĕllūd') n. An introductory performance, event, or action preceding a more important one; a preliminary or preface A piece or movement that serves as an introduction to another section or composition and establishes the key, such as one that precedes a fugue, opens a suite,...

26 Feb Getting Giga Over Google (Again)

Posted at 10:15h in For Employers, Innovation, PHR, Value by michelle 6 Comments

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Giga (gĭg 'ə) n. Metric prefix denoting multiplication by 109 or 1,000,000,000. In measuring the capacity of computer disks and RAM, equivalent to X 230 or 1,073,741,824. In California surf slang for something that is totally gnarlatious. OK . . . enough already . . . regarding Google,...

25 Feb HIMSS Kickoff: What time is it?

Posted at 10:39h in Conferences, For Employers, Healthcare, Innovation by michelle 2 Comments

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Kickoff (kĭk'ôf') n. 1. A place kick in American football that starts play. 2. A beginning for a new initiative. Well, after one of those brutal overnight flights when you are constantly uncomfortable, I rolled into Orlando at 5:13 AM EST to the annual ritual called...