Tag: EHR

6Mar, 2018

“U.S. health-care spending to climb 5.3% in 2018” and Beyond (Part 2)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: EHR, EMR, healthcare technology, insurance, IOT, ObamaCare, PWeR

We ended the first part of this blog “U.S. health-care spending to climb 5.4% in 2018” and Beyond on healthcare cost projections though 2026, with doubts about what many would say are bleak projections. Unfortunately, we believe it is nearly impossible for healthcare cost not to exceed the projections of CMS, as there is no way they won’t exceed the 20% of GDP before 2026. In this blog, we will detail some of the reasons why the financial and demographical wave we are in is bigger than what most think. […]
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21Feb, 2018

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“U.S. health-care spending to climb 5.3% in 2018” and Beyond (Part 1)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: EHR, healthcare, healthcare technology, insurance, Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare, technology

The U.S. Government Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their annual National Health Expenditures Projections for the period of 2017-26. I must admit, since I have been in healthcare, I have looked forward to two annual reports from CMS. One of the reports is the actual cost expenditures for the previous two years usually looking back 10 years retrospectively. The 2016 report is the latest year reviewed and was just reported in December of […]
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26Jan, 2018

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IoT Health Conference -Walt Disney World, Florida

By: Charity Darby | Tags: EHR, healthcare, healthcare technology, insurance, IoT device, PWeR

Presentation delivered by Noel J. Guillama January 23, 2018 Good Morning everyone. Thank you for coming to hear our presentation on IoT Healthcare Collaboration and The Connected Patient of 2020. Before I get too deep, please allow me to share my perspective, as it may make a difference. I am here, not just as technology person. I am a healthcare operator that has been responsible for care and the coordination of care for over 30,000 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. I have been granted numerous patents, all around the use of […]
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19Jan, 2018

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Healthcare Price Transparency Comes to America (Part 2)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: EHR, Food, Google, health, healthcare, medical data, Microsoft, PWeR, technology, YouTube

In our previous blog, Healthcare Price Transparency Comes to America (Part 1), we started a conversation on price transparency. Today, we will discuss the findings of a recent report from Health Affairs. The report, by the researchers from Harvard and UCLA, noted that they cannot find a previous report or research on this subject, making it potentially the first in the space. I can confirm I have seen nothing like it. I will add that I am sure this will not be the last time this subject is published. The […]
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18Jan, 2018

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Healthcare Price Transparency Comes to America (Part 1)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: EHR, Food, Google, health, healthcare, medical data, Microsoft, PWeR, technology, YouTube

The Internet, and its natural progression to e-commerce, has transformed how we buy everything from groceries, apparel, and attaining an education, to how we purchase cars and even homes over the last 20 years. One industry has been only slightly impacted by the Internet; that industry is healthcare. Let us be clear, we are very aware that we live in a world where Google is most of Americans’ first step in the self-diagnosis of a symptom or disease. It is also our second step, once our physicians tell us what […]
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6Nov, 2017

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Silicon Valley and Healthcare (Part 6)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACO, Aetna, Amazon, Apple, Apple Watch, CNBC, EHR, EMR, Google, healthcare, healthcare reform, healthcare technology, HIPAA, insurance, Intel, medical data, Medicare, Microsoft, PWeR, Rubiks cube, Silicon Valley, wearables

In our ongoing series on Silicon Valley and healthcare, we began with the discussion of Alphabet/Google’s growing interest in healthcare. We continue this series with Google, so that we can discuss Amazon, Inc. next, and then discuss other, much less prominent players, coming into healthcare. We believe that Amazon will have the largest impact on healthcare in 2018. It seems that the news of healthcare technology is clogging not only my email, but also my Twitter feed daily. As a student of healthcare for over 25 years, I have been […]
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7Oct, 2017

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Silicon Valley and Healthcare (Part 5)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACO, Aetna, Amazon, Apple, Apple Watch, CNBC, EHR, EMR, Google, healthcare, healthcare reform, healthcare technology, HIPAA, insurance, Intel, medical data, Medicare, Microsoft, PWeR, Rubiks cube, Silicon Valley, wearables

As we continue our series on Silicon Valley and Healthcare, we move to Mountain View, California; the headquarters of Alphabet, Inc. and its monster subsidiary, Google, Inc. Later in this series, we will discuss what we think is the coming battle between Google and Amazon in healthcare, and possibly in other industries. I don’t think many companies have had the impact that Google has had in our modern world. I was fascinated when I could search what was the emerging web, on Mosaic, one of the first search engines available. […]
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14Sep, 2017

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Silicon Valley and Healthcare (Part 4)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACO, Aetna, Amazon, Apple, Apple Watch, CNBC, EHR, EMR, Google, healthcare, healthcare reform, healthcare technology, HIPAA, insurance, Intel, medical data, Medicare, Microsoft, PWeR, Rubiks cube, Silicon Valley, wearables

Though Apple continues to advance in healthcare with the announcement on September 12, 2017, of the new Apple Watch, we will close this series with Part 4 for now. Later, in our future blogs, we will spend some time discussing Amazon, IBM, and other companies from Silicon Valley who are advancing into healthcare. As noted above, Apple just announced a new Apple Watch, and CNBC reported that Apple is working with Stanford University, as well as a telemedicine company America Well, to effectively turn the Apple Watch into a full-time […]
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24Aug, 2017

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Silicon Valley and Healthcare (Part 3)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACO, Aetna, Amazon, Apple, Apple Watch, CNBC, EHR, EMR, Google, healthcare, healthcare reform, healthcare technology, HIPAA, insurance, Intel, medical data, Medicare, Microsoft, PWeR, Rubiks cube, Silicon Valley, wearables

In 2008, I gave a speech at a Florida International University conference, and I discussed the view that we were entering a new renaissance in healthcare. I must say, I am still amazed and saddened how so little has changed in the last nine years. As an optimist, I believe that change is around the corner, and the rest of this blog shows that hope. We have always advocated the need of transformation in healthcare, and more utilization of technologies that have already transformed nearly every other industry in the […]
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28Jul, 2017

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Healthcare’s Disruptive Transition – Part 4

By: Charity Darby | Tags: Apple, client data, clinical data, cloud-based, consumers, data, EHR, EMR, healthcare, healthcare technology, iphone, ObamaCare, patient data, payors, technology, wellness record

One of the things that continues to shock us in healthcare are the costs to administer the back-office, or the cost to generate, send, process, pay and receive a medical claim. How big is this administrative cost of healthcare in the U.S.? What if we told you that the healthcare administration costs are approximately $333,000,000,000 USD (three hundred thirty-three billion USD) per year. Would you believe your eyes? Yes, the United States of America spends more in healthcare administration than many, many countries spend on healthcare in total! For instance […]
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