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Health Graph for Consumers

Let it be known that I am officially “coining” the term Health Graph. Why?  Heck, I don’t know but I figured that I better claim it before Mark Zuckerberg or some other Web2.0 company started to mention it.
Actually, the notion of the term came up today as we met with a large company who we [...]

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35 Healthcare questions every Health2.0 company should ask

So as we ratchet down, focus on, and refine our platform — Robert and team threw these questions out that may seem obvious on the surface but actually require some thought. I figured that I’d pass them along. It was interesting to see how I answered some questions vs. others on the team. I’d like [...]

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Back to 5 Marketing basic questions

Sheesh! Robert just “schooled” me on the 5 basic questions any person should ask themselves as they develop a marketing message. I’m a slow learner:

Who is the audience?

What is your target market?
What is the call-to-action?
What makes you unique?
What is the desired result?

He’s making me write this 500 times so I’ll remember it! jk

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Thank you Oprah Magazine for mentioning MedBillManager

I guess MedBillManager is now “mainstream” to the millions of readers of Oprah’s O Magazine. The painful paperwork and confusion resulting from Consumers and Employees accessing the healthcare system has risen to loud roar.
Plus…we’re developing a case study about one of our employer client’s use of MedBillManager to address a significant employee benefit issue [...]

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Can I get a discount on babies if I have a heart-attack, please.

This just in (errr… for the government, “just in” means insight into data ending 2 years ago) via Theo Francis of the WSJ.com blog: Hospital charges are up 89% since 1997. Yawn.
Oh, wait-a-minute?! You mean the price that the working uninsured and (to some discounted degree) people paying for care out-of-pocket [...]

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Silicon Nashville and Twitter

 
I’m just getting caught up on emails and i came across the following article that made me ponder the latest health+web efforts here in Nashville. Considering that the majority of for-profit healthcare companies (sans Tenet) are headquartered here in Nashville — is the Country Music City becoming the Silicon Valley of Health2.0 [e.g. Peerclip, connectivhealth, and [...]

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What if Dr. Jones was actually Dr. Jones

It’s ridiculous! Medicare had attempted to push Providers to adopt a NPI (National Provider Identifier) which is intended to replace the moderately utilized UPIN for Medicare. I can only imagine the complexity, frustration, and inconsistent data pools that exist between federal and state agencies as all parties begin the migration to NPI utilization [...]

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In honor of my parents

Dad passed away Dec 3rd and Mom a year later on Dec 23rd. I miss them both. Tremendously.
When asked why i started change:healthcare, why i give a damn about healthcare consumerism, why it is important to make a difference – it’s because i told them and myself that i would do something. Something honest, [...]

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Bob Coffield rock’n da house

Two things:
First, I wanted to say thanks for the latest mention by Bob Coffield over at the Healthcare Law Blog.
Bob is one of those individuals whom, when you meet, you just know that he is an all-around good guy. Go on over and read some of his latest posts. Good stuff… Speaking of which…
Secondly, Bob [...]

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NEJM begins to validate change:healthcare direction

I rest my FREAK’N case! Well, actually, i’m not that smart and certainly this is a loose stretch to use the term “validate” but it is nice to have the New England Journal of Medicine validate my notion of social influence as noted below in today’s post:
An interesting and somewhat shocking study published in [...]

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