2018 Health Policy Leadership 
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. Providers put patient safety as #1.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
In the 2018 mid-term elections, U.S. voters were driven to polls with health care on their minds. The key issues for health care voters were costs (for care and prescription drugs) and access (read: protecting pre-existing conditions and expanding Medicaid). Issue #2 for 2018 voters was the economy.
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Health Populi
MARCH 21, 2019
It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.
Society for Participatory Medicine
OCTOBER 13, 2018
Archie Cochrane influenced the thinking, and practice, of many other clinicians with his thought leadership on practice variation, practice standardization, and the use of RCTs to fine tune medical science. The US did have a Cochrane Center home based at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, but that closed in February 2018.
Henry Kotula
JANUARY 30, 2019
In 2018, several new entrants entered and/or broadened their reach into healthcare. Early in 2018, Apple announced it was integrating EHRs onto the iPhone and Apple watch, and recently, Google hired Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg for a newly created role, head of the company’s many healthcare initiatives.
Lloyd Price
AUGUST 27, 2018
Developing a precision-medicine-ready system using cancer as a starting point can inform health policies, data systems, laboratory networks, and diagnostic capacity growth while stemming rising mortality rates. Furthermore, these developments will also support diagnosing and treating other diseases.
Henry Kotula
MARCH 16, 2020
When it comes to nurses per 100,000 people, Washington state ranked near the bottom — 46th among states and the District of Columbia — in 2018. In 2018, it had improved to just 2.6. Health Workers Strained. The state scored 2.5 points for managing volunteers in an emergency in 2013.
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