On Tuesday, Verizon Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam addressed the World Health Care Congress and pledged to keep Verizon on the front lines of mobile’s connection to healthcare in the 21st century. more»

A young woman might not have gone to Mayo Clinic to undergo a special technique for treating a wrist injury if it hadn't been for a live Twitter chat facilitated by USA Today, the hospital's social media guru told attendees at the World Health Care Congress' mobile health innovations talk on Monday morning. more»

Much like the way people buy gossip magazines in the checkout line of the supermarket, most people who get a flu shot at Target's retail clinics or pharmacies do so on impulse: about 70 percent hadn't planned on getting a jab before they walked in the door, according to the company's medical director. more»

Consumers think of healthcare as a complex web," said Joshua Riff, M.D., chief medical director at Target at today's World Health Care Congress event. The company known for customer engagement sees healthcare as a potential new horizon. more»

Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently wrote a comic book that explains the health reform law so it is easy to understand. more»

The iPad 3 release means doctors' use of the popular Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) tablet may be about to take off. But patient data security is a concern among small health care operations, and CIOs are clamoring for medical iPad apps with new security features. more»

A panel of healthcare technology leaders discussed innovation for population and economic health during the inaugural eHealth Innovation conference. more»

“There’s a bandwidth limitation,” said Ray Campbell, Esq, MPA, executive director and CEO of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, speaking March 14 at the inaugural eHealth Innovation Conference and referring to the limits facing healthcare technology innovation. more»

Speaking at the inaugural eHealth Innovation Conference on March 15, Wil Yu, special assistant of innovations and research for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), explained that promoting private sector innovation is one of his responsibilities. more»

Ways to prompt employees to choose cost-efficient, high-quality health care providers were highlighted at the 2012 Employer Health & Human Capital Congress, held Feb. 7-9, 2012, in Washington, D.C. more»

“Stand up.” The audience stands. “Sit down.” The audience sits. “Now stand up again.” An audience member mutters under his breath, “No way,” while Fikry Isaac, chief medical officer for Wellness and Prevention, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, makes his commands to make a point. Wherever your employees are — a meeting, a desk or at a conference, simple movement can go a long way to create a corporate culture where health is truly valued and lived. more»

Employers share some of the blame for rising health care costs, but they also have the ability to dramatically cut those costs with a few simple steps, according to a speaker at the 2012 Employer Health & Human Capital Congress in Washington. more»

Tuesday morning, the 2012 Employer Health and Human Capitol Congress kicked off in Washington, D.C., with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.) emphasizing the role of employers in pushing for payment reform in the health care system and advancing health information technology, which could drastically change health care spending and costs to both employees and employees. more»

It was almost too good to be true, but the results showed that it really worked. When Chicago's Mount Sinai Hospital embarked on reducing readmissions with the Project Re-Engineered Discharge model, otherwise known as Project RED, program leaders couldn't believe it lowered readmissions from 34 (from July 2010 to January 2011) to only 5 (from February 2011 to July 2011). Even better, it didn't require new staff or additional dollars, Leslie Zun, chair and professor of the emergency department, said at Friday's World Congress 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on Hospital Readmissions in Falls Church, Va. more»

With providers across the country experimenting with transitional care improvements, many models that are spearheading the movement share some common interventions, said Cheri Lattimer, executive director for the non-profit National Transitions of Care Coalition, in a keynote address at Friday's World Congress 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on Hospital Readmissions. more»

With soaring health care costs and the consequent additional burden on state finances, analysts say governments of countries within the Gulf Cooperation Council must actively encourage private-sector investment to relieve excessive dependence on public finances, improve the quality of treatment, and promote competition within the medical sector. more»

The U.S. health care system faces a time of dramatic change as health care reform legislation extends coverage to an estimated 32 million Americans by 2104. As a result of this large-scale expansion, predictive models have become increasingly important in helping health plans develop long-term strategies To explore the modes and uses of predictive modeling, medical management executives, health economists, actuaries and underwriters will convene for the World Congress 3rd Annual Predictive Modeling Congress for Health Plans Jan 30 – 31, 2012 in Orlando, Fl. more»