Mike Budreski
Food for thought – 9 steps to significantly improving health and healthcare
I spend a lot of time thinking about how health and health care in the US came to the current state. In thinking through how to categorize the woes of our health and our health care system, I began articulating what it would take to significantly improve our current state. In order to foster productive [...]
Behavior change to improve health
The state of health in America
The state of health in America is in crisis. Obesity rates, diabetes rates, depression – all one needs to do is turn on the TV or surf the web to understand that we’re on a razor’s edge. It can seem overwhelming because of the sheer scale of the problem. What [...]
The rapidly changing landscape for personal management of health and wellness – what’s your mobile strategy?
The convergence of 1) attention on moderating the healthcare cost trend along with 2) the rapidly evolving capabilities of mobile phones provides a huge opportunity for healthcare product and service providers. Those who can demonstrate the ability to deliver value through the mobile channel have the potential to reap large return on their investment.
Obesity crisis in America – where is the focus on nutrition?
Much ado has been made of the fact that obesity is a full-blown crisis in America. Turn on the news and in any given week it seems like stark statistics are being presented: 33% of American adults are obese. 68% of Americans are obese or overweight. 20% of American children are obese.
Given the relationship between [...]
Thoughts on the new healthcare reform law
Understanding the details of the new health reform law is challenging – but the focus on “access” is just a start. Much more will need to be done to really reform our healthcare model in the US, and to moderate the rapidly escalating cost trend.
Countering patient apathy towards healthcare cost
Over the course of the last year, I have had many, many conversations with people about the idea of making medical cost information more transparent. For example, there is information available through the State of Massachusetts’ ‘My Healthcare Options’ site (www.mass.gov/myhealthcareoptions) where citizens of MA can compare cost and quality of a variety of medical [...]
A recap of reactions to the Healthcare Stimulus in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)
Two weeks after President Obmama signed the ARRA into law, there has been much discussion of the merits and pitfalls of the approach that is being taken by the government to stimulate progress in healthcare. Here are some thoughts in response to the discussion…
Medullan sponsors the Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009
Medullan was honored to be able to be a sponsor to the Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009 that was held at the Boston Seaport Hotel on February 26, 2009. We joined with organizer HIL Forum and other healthcare IT companies and organizations from both the public and private sector.
The future of collaborative health tools
With many health conditions (particularly outside disease management efforts), there’s a lack of a single coordinator of care. There’s been no tool that allowed the patient – the person most motivated to drive overall care coordination – to play this role, and no one else has stepped into the vacuum. One of the key areas of potential for collaborative networking/care management tools is that the patient may finally ascend to their rightful place in the overall coordination of their own care.
Embracing incremental change in solving the healthcare challenge
There are a huge number of people and organizations trying to solve the healthcare challenge. You can’t keep looking for the one, perfect solution – instead we must embrace a model of incremental and focused change.
