The following is a list of websites and educational materials for wellness and healthcare providers. I understand that those sites are about policy, law, technology and might not be directly connected to what you do, but
Kaiser Network and
Fora.TV ( Read Below ) are especially useful because they have wonderful videos for personal trainers, dietitians and those wellness providers who have no background in medical coding, medicare, medicaid and other issues that are "basic" for doctors.
Knowing those issues is helpful in talking with medical providers and networking with them.
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A Healthy Blog
Health Care For All is one of the nation's leading state-based, non-profit consumer health care advocacy organizations. Health Care For All seeks to create a consumer-centered health care system that provides comprehensive, affordable, accessible, culturally competent, high quality care and consumer education for everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We work to achieve this as leaders in public policy, advocacy, education and service to consumers in Massachusetts.
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http://trusted.md/
Trusted.MD Network is dedicated to providing online information services for the benefit of healthcare consumers and professionals. We have been a pioneer of healthcare blogs and social media, proud of instigating several "firsts":
* Launched the first healthcare blogging network
* Produced the first conference on healthcare blogs & social media
* Published a vision for transforming healthcare via social media
Our current projects include a multi-contributor blog magazine, distributed in a weekly newsletter, as well as a public directory of healthcare bloggers, who can opt in to syndicate their feed into our public aggregator.
Our broader mission includes helping traditional healthcare organizations with engagement in social media initiatives. We have worked with Humana, Cephalon, Johnson & Johnson and PRSA Health Academy.
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Health Business Blog
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Health IT Tools
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The Health Care Blog
This blog, billed as "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Health Care System, But Were Afraid to Ask," is published by Matthew Holt, a consultant and publisher of an email digest of health-care news for executives and hospital administrators. Mr. Holt uses his blog to draw attention to health-policy articles in other publications and on other blogs, and share his thoughts about Medicare policy, health insurers, electronic medical records and doctors. There have been frequent posts dissecting the new Medicare law and highlighting waste and fraud in the system. The site is currently running a contest for readers to come up with solutions for fixing the health-care system -- in 250 words or less.
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The Healthcare IT Guy
I am Shahid N. Shah, the CEO of Netspective Communications which is a software consultancy whose actionable advice and disciplined approach delivers custom software for in-house, outsourced, or offshore solutions. For the past 15 years I have held the positions of CEO, CTO, VP of Technology, Chief Software Architect, or Enterprise Architect at various mid- to large-size firms. I am an expert at discovering practical technology solutions to real-world business initiatives, especially in the healthcare, government, and financial services sectors.
I run three successful blogs. At
Shahid’s Perspectives I write about architecture issues, at
The Healthcare IT Guy I provide valuable insights on how to apply technology in healthcare, and at
Healthcare IT Blogs - HITSphere I give a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.
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Kaisernetwork.org - Health Policy, News Summaries, Webcasts, Interviews & Public Opinion - Kaiser Family Foundation
kff.org is the Foundation's main Web site, providing complete access to the Foundation's policy research and surveys as well as information on the Foundation and its programs, including the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
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FORA.tv - Videos on the People, Issues, and Ideas Changing the Planet
Here is the science part of FORA:
Science - FORA.tv
And healthcare part of FORA:
FORA.tv
FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. Our users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.
We gather the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want.
With our community of savvy users and an extensive, growing library of smart videos, FORA.tv is at the forefront of the ongoing integration - and transformation – of the traditional media, TV, cable, and online industries from mass-market to high-quality, high-value content.
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Apart at the Seams: The Collapse of Private Pension and Health Care Protections
Very interesting PDF that teaches you about the current issues in pensions and healthcare!
Throughout most of the past century America, uniquely among industrial countries, assumed that private businesses would take primary responsibility for providing retirement security and health insurance to working-age people and their families—an arrangement that became known as American "welfare capitalism." That assumption has been put to the test by the fierce competitive onslaught on almost every major American industry that began in the 1970s and 1980s. In today's world of global competition old traditions of employer-employee loyalties are a distant memory and companies have been shedding benefit commitments as rapidly as possible.
"Apart at the Seams" explores how this collapse of private sector retirement and health benefits came about and how it has affected the landscape of American social insurance. Morris examines the forthcoming strain on government benefit programs, the critical trends in American incomes and savings patterns, and the special features of the American health care system that make policy changes such a pressing concern. He argues that the question is not whether the American social insurance system must be fundamentally restructured—that has been going on, willy-nilly, for the past few decades—but rather, whether there are reasonable paths to closing the gaping holes in the existing system without doing violence to the long-standing American disposition toward mixed-enterprise solutions.
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HIPAA Learning Guide
I think most health and wellness providers should know a tiny bit about HIPAA or at least know what it is. Please take a look.
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Michael Porter Health Information Technology Symposium
The entire Harvard Business/Healthcare website is very good. Tons of resources - you can sit through days and find interesting stuff.
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Wellness Council of America, the premier resource for worksite wellness
Totally Awesome! You should read tons of articles from there about worksite wellness and issues confronting wellness promotion and healthy workforce!
Here is their brief intro:
Worksite Health Promotion is good business!
As North America's premier resource for worksite wellness, the Wellness Council of America is dedicated to helping organizations of all kinds build and sustain results-oriented wellness programs.
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Dr. Groopman's book about "How Doctors Think" - very good
You can get this book on Audible.com and listen to it as you go for a walk or drive your car. It is about 10 hours but definitely helps you understand how medical doctors think.
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Physicians for a National Health Program - Health Care is a Human Right
Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 16,000 members and chapters across the United States.
Since 1987, we've advocated for reform in the U.S. health care system. We educate physicians and other health professionals about the benefits of a single-payer system--including fewer administrative costs and affording health insurance for the 46 million Americans who have none.
Our members and physician activists work toward a single-payer national health program in their communities. PNHP performs ground breaking research on the health crisis and the need for fundamental reform, coordinates speakers and forums, participates in town hall meetings and debates, contributes scholarly articles to peer-reviewed medical journals, and appears regularly on national television and news programs advocating for a single-payer system.
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Hospital Connect
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FierceHealthcare - Healthcare industry, Healthcare news, Healthcare company, Healthcare trend
This one is great. Subscribe and get daily news right into your email!
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Health and Human Services - Government
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Learn how to compare hospitals
Welcome to Hospital Compare. In this tool you will find information on how well hospitals care for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures, and results from a survey of patients about the quality of care they received during a recent hospital stay. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Talk to your doctor about this information to help you, your family and your friends make your best hospital care decisions.
Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services, and other members of the Hospital Quality Alliance: Improving Care Through Information (HQA). The information on this website comes from hospitals that have agreed to submit quality information for Hospital Compare to make public.
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Heare is a list of healthcare blogs and websites that I find very educational
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