By Sarianne Gruber – Before we had patient panels and electronic health records, there were patient study logs and regulatory binders. Yet, the same questions are asked today when analyzing study outcomes as yesteryear. How do you assess a treatment, procedure or process for a specific disease in your population sample with the presence of confounding diseases? The answer is a Comorbidity Index.
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By Sarianne Gruber – Breaking Media rightly titled this year’s MedCity News conference “Converge”. Listening to the speakers, meeting the founders of new startups and talking to presenters, it became clear that today’s healthcare ecosystem is interdependent on the all the players to move the needle for better quality health.
By Sarianne Gruber – Would you recommend your physician to friend or relative? What would be your reasons for recommending them? Is it because you like the selection of magazines in the waiting room or the self-serve coffee flavors?
By Sarianne Gruber – The deadline is quickly approaching. All interested medical practices can be a part of the Million Hearts Study as long as an application is submitted by September 10, 2015 11:59pm (EDT). This is an excellent opportunity to join a randomized-controlled trial to uncover the best care delivery models that can potentially reduce cardiovascular risk.
By Sarianne Gruber – Pharmaceutical Industry Moves Towards Transparency – The health industry has begun to feel the effects of heightened transparency as consumers, physicians, insurers, pharma and life sciences companies and others become armed with more data.
By Sarianne Gruber – A Virtual Clip Board Pilot Study. Patient self-service kiosks in hospitals and physician offices have helped speed up the patient intake process, collect co-pays as well as improve data quality such errors and duplication of information.
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.