Tag: healthcare

10Jul, 2017

The GOP Healthcare Bill – The U.S. Senate Version (Part 3)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACO, healthcare, healthcare administration, MACRA, Medicaid, ObamaCare, transparency

“Healthcare can be fixed without higher costs by putting patient care first, taking advantage of the technology that is available to coordinate better care, improving patient control and access to their medical and financial information, and finally a relentless drive for a fully transparent healthcare pricing model. This is the only solution – not thinking we can fix healthcare by controlling healthcare insurance markets. Trying to fix healthcare by addressing insurance markets alone simply masks the real problems. We can either mask the problem or treat the disease.” As we […]
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7Jul, 2017

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The GOP Healthcare Bill – The U.S. Senate Version (Part 2)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACA, Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, Affordable Care Act, healthcare, healthcare bill, hospitals, insurance, insurance coverage, Medicaid, Medicare, ObamaCare

Why can’t we fix U.S. Healthcare? The biggest problem with the healthcare bill submitted by the Republicans in the U.S. Senate is that they have not tried to fix the same problems the Democrats were unable to fix in Obamacare. They have all focused-on insurance – not cost, quality of care and/or price transparency. We in the U.S have only begun to scratch the surface on the use of technology. Plus, there is no patient or consumer influence in the healthcare marketplace – NONE! Sky-high prices are what makes dealing […]
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4Jul, 2017

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The GOP Healthcare Bill – The U.S. Senate Version (Part 1)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACA, Affordable Care Act, grants, healthcare, healthcare reform, insurance, insurance bill, Medicaid, ObamaCare, TrumpCare

It is nearly impossible to turn on the television, read any website, or listen to talk radio in America and not be overwhelmed by the discussion on the Republican Senate Healthcare Bill. This debate has been the latest process of President Trump’s “repeal and replace ObamaCare” campaign promise. This week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their estimates on the U.S. Senate Healthcare Bill. First, let’s be real, not now nor has there ever been a healthcare bill. It is a medical insurance bill. Nothing in this bill, nor in […]
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9Jun, 2017

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Healthcare’s Disruptive Transition – Part 2

By: Charity Darby | Tags: Baby boomers, EHR, healthcare, healthcare technology, Medicare, Millennials, technology

We began this series discussing how the second wave of Baby Boomers or the “trailing edge,” will likely change healthcare materially and permanently. In our last blog, we suggested that this “trailing edge” will change healthcare by being the first generation to take a more active role in their healthcare, be materially more demanding of technology, and more questioning of their caregivers. After all, this is the generation that has witnessed the emergence and mainstreaming of revolutionary technology: the color television, fax machines, pagers, cell phones, the Internet, social media, […]
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8Jun, 2017

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Healthcare’s Disruptive Transition – Part 1

By: Charity Darby | Tags: Baby boomers, EHR, healthcare, healthcare technology, Medicare, Millennials, technology

Over the next 10 years, we will see more profound transformations in healthcare than the last 30 years. As we will discuss in our new series of blogs, the transformations will be driven by consumer demands and changes in the use of technology, as well as the pressure by the government to drive changes to payments to providers over the next five years. This process will require changes in all providers and hospitals, it will force modernization of payers systems (CMS, HMOs and other private insurance), and lastly the intensive […]
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3Mar, 2016

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HIMSS 2016 Part 1

By: Charity Darby | Tags: consumers, EHR, EMR, healthcare, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), HL-7, MU-2, technology, technology companies

Every year, the best and the brightest in the health information technology industry, via the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) annual meeting, meet for a week. This year, it’s in Las Vegas, Nevada. An amazing experience I have enjoyed on more than one occasion. The convention is attended by sizeable healthcare delivery systems, clearly large and small technology companies. Almost always missing; actual healthcare providers. The sad news of that is, everyone is building and demonstrating technology that impacts the providers more than anyone. In the 3 times […]
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11Feb, 2016

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Medical Robots

By: Charity Darby | Tags: cloud-based computers, EHR, EMR, generations, healthcare, medical robots, PWeR, real time, robot assistance, robots, technology

Technology is going to transform healthcare! On this week’s blog, we are expressing the news and our perspective, and it has generally been focused on the cross-roads and technology. Recently, we have been adding another dimension; generational economics and healthcare. I love to read about our industry, and with more than 10 patents issued, and another 20 pending, technology and innovation drive me. A friend of mine once called me a futurist, and to this day I wonder if that was a good thing, or a bad thing? We have […]
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4Feb, 2016

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Healthcare and Economics; Pt. 1

By: Charity Darby | Tags: demographics, economics, healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, technology

Today we are going to recognize something that has been apparent to anyone who reads this modest blog. In the last 3 blogs I admitted that my favorite subjects are healthcare, technology and demographics, with a not so small dose of economics. To me, they are hugely influential, and in my world, they are interconnected. An industry that is as large as healthcare has its own economic dynamics, and like a Red Giant star, it seemingly affects everything around it. Previously mentioned, I once read that in the mid-2000s General […]
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28Jan, 2016

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The NEW Trancession

By: Charity Darby | Tags: Generation X, healthcare, investment, recession, security, technoloy

Two weeks ago, we discussed the lack of investment in healthcare technology, Monstrous Digital Healthcare Gap in the U.S. In last week’s Blog, we discussed a few items that lead away from, and then back to, healthcare and technology, The Next Digital Revolution. Today, I will try to bring both ideas together, and more importantly, get a little deeper in to the economics of our generations, and where healthcare is. Next week we will do the big numbers. First, I am no economist, and for sure I am no financial analyst; but there […]
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21Jan, 2016

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The Next Digital Revolution; Life, Health and Jobs

By: Charity Darby | Tags: computers, digital, EHR, EMR, global economics, healthcare, medications, records, technology

Once again, I find myself sliding some topics I selected to discuss to the back burner. The daily headlines are so amazing to an innovation and technology addict, such as myself. This past week, a friend of mine sent me a link to a website, and the title just hit me and gave me a “Back to the Future” moment. The site was SingularityHub.com and the title was “Digital Diagnosis: Intelligent Machines Do a Better Job than Humans.” It was not a question, but a statement. They had me hooked. […]
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