By Sarianne Gruber – The Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR)-Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCl3) released last month a 50 state report card documenting the minimal progress on State Price Transparency Laws in 2014.
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By Sarianne Gruber – ProPublica, a New York City based non-profit newsroom, focuses on stories as they describe have a “moral force”. Last month, Olga Pierce and Marshall Allen, reporters who cover health care and patient safety issues, released to the public the Surgeon Scorecard.
By Sarianne Gruber – COTA, Inc. started as home grown database by and for the internal team of John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) oncologists and hematologists to help them access patient data for research. Even though patient data was starting to be funneled through the electronic medical records and ICD-9 (and ICD-10) codes label the general disease, there was no functionality in place to bridge the information into a meaningful platform.
By Sarianne Gruber – An Interview with Dr. Stuart Goldberg a Hematologist/Oncologist and COTA Board member, and learning what it took to cross the data frontier starting with the gaps in information access to evolving into an information focal point for physicians, patients and payers.
By Sarianne Gruber – Having once been a graduate student in Epidemiology and Public Health, certain books still remain my bookshelf as iconic references for studying disease and our healthcare system. There is the bright orange, soft covered, Foundations of Epidemiology by the father and son team Abraham M. Lilienfeld and David E. Lilienfeld, a relic from the required reading list.
By Sarianne Gruber – Michael Dulin, MD, PhD was a featured speaker at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum, held in New York City in June. I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Dulin at the conference and learn about the Carolinas HealthCare System’s Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group.
By Sarianne Gruber – Michael Dulin, MD, PhD was a featured speaker at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum, held in New York City in June. I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Dulin at the conference and learn about the Carolinas HealthCare System’s Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group.
By Sarianne Gruber – Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Administration – Getting information from your health insurance company such as the cost of a co-pay, treatment coverage, or perhaps a low cost MRI or CAT scan facility within your network, can be a frustrating.
By Sarianne Gruber – A Conversation with Lisa Emrich, iConquerMS and Sarianne Gruber about patients like herself with MS to join together, to bring their data together and to fight their disease. Lisa possesses an aura of optimism and heart. Probably the two most key qualities needed for bringing these patients together.