Change, especially in the context of healthcare IT systems and processes, can be difficult to design and implement. But it also provides an opportunity to take a fresh look at how healthcare IT can be utilized in new ways to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivery. The Radiation Oncology Alternative Payment Model is an advanced alternative payment model […]
Supply chain challenges, inflation, and plummeting consumer economic sentiment are setting the stage for a decline in consumer electronics revenues for 2022. However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S. Consumer Technology One-Year Industry Forecast, 2018-2023. […]
In a previous posts, we explored the idea of evidence-based design, the place where science and aesthetics join forces to help patients and healthcare professionals. Today’s post highlights one of today’s hybrid designers who is paving the way towards the hospital room of the future, Megan Kalina. This Medical Planner’s ideas come to life in life-saving healthcare facilities around the country.
Published on July 14, 2022 Congratulations on your new baby! How you’ll get coverage for your baby depends on your current insurance status. If you don’t have health insurance: Having a baby qualifies you for a . This means you can enroll in or change 2022 Marketplace coverage. When you enroll in the […]
Digital-transformation programs at leading healthcare institutions that I work with are increasingly focused on two things: how to increase revenues and how to improve consumer experiences. There is a renewed focus on sustainable growth, not least due to the losses the nation’s leading health systems posted in 2021 and in the first half of 2022. Digital health leaders are facing […]
Inflation and the fear of economic recession were the top two causes of anxiety in America, followed by gun violence, in June 2022. Moms and Hispanic adults, in particular, were worried about losing income and of gun violence, discovered in the Healthy Minds Monthly Poll for July 2022 from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) […]
Your urine’s got a message for you. Urine is a part of daily life. Because it’s so routine, we probably don’t pay too much attention to what comes out when we empty our bladders. But urine color can actually communicate messages to us about our bodies. “Urine color can tell you a lot about what is going on in your […]
The most trusted institutions in the U.S. are small business and the military, the only two sectors in which a majority of Americans have confidence. Americans’ trust in institutions hit new historic lows in 2022, Gallup found in its latest poll of U.S. sentiment across all major sectors. Today, more Americans have […]
Overbed tables are essential in patient rooms. They serve as a surface for food trays, and can hold personal items such as phones, computers, or books. Even healthcare workers uses overbed tables for holding medical devices or supplies. All this usage means one thing: Overbed tables are one of the most-touched and most-contaminated surfaces in a patient room.
As any great illusionist will tell you, the whole point of a staged illusion is to look utterly convincing, to make whatever is happening on stage seem so thoroughly real that the average audience member would have no way of figuring out how the illusion works. If this were not the case, it would not be an illusion and the […]