The Empowered Healthcare Consumer

Posted by Marc Lichtenstein on January 7, 2013

This is a true healthcare story…

A woman I know, who I will call “Lucy” to protect her privacy, recently suffered a very painful injury. Lucy slipped on a staircase in her home and tried to break her fall with her...

Healthcare Tools, Patients, Providers, Access

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Zen and Access to Healthcare

Posted by Marc Lichtenstein on December 27, 2012

Wherever you go, there you are – ancient Eastern philosophy

Humans have been a mobile species long before smartphones. Even after nomadic tribes settled in villages, they still possessed within their DNA...

Access, GEO Blue, BlueCard, National Doctor Hospital Finder, Healthcare Tools

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Providers and Payers: Partners in Patient Safety

Posted by Marc Lichtenstein on December 17, 2012

Hundreds of thousands of patients are harmed while seeking treatment, and thousands die each year, from preventable medical errors.

And, unfortunately, according to

Patients, Providers, Safety, Quality Outcomes, Healthcare Transformation

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Dawn of the Patient-Centered Medical Era

Posted by Marc Lichtenstein on December 12, 2012

“Patient-Centered Medicine” almost sounds like an unnecessary statement. After all, isn’t the practice of all medicine “patient-centered”? The answer is both yes, and no. Medicine may be practiced on the patient,...

PCMH/ACO, Coordinated Care, Patients, Physicians

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Taking to the Streets to Combat Childhood Obesity

Posted by Marc Lichtenstein on December 3, 2012

Over the next year in 10 cities across America, kids are going to occupy “the streets” through a new Play...

Health, Childhood Obesity , Playstreets

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