The Top Line

The panel at this morning's conference entitled Sustainability: Don't Market to Key Audiences- Motivate Them! was amazing. Panelists, whose work focuses on sustainability, shared lots of interesting details about what works and why.

Sustainability and health care on parallel tracks

One of the aims and consequences of health care payment reform is pushing care to lower cost settings. More and more, we hear this means treating patients in outpatient settings or in their homes.

The topic of the 8th annual Connected Health Symposium was timely: Driving Quality Up and Costs Down:  New Technologies for an Era of Accountability.  Nevertheless, what made it a great conference were the fresh perspectives it brought to the fore.

Measurement, analysis, and communication are imperative

To one side of me sat a business development professional from a detective agency. To the other side, was an owner of an eye glass store in a downtown mall that seeks to make his store a "destination". Both had come to learn about how to use social media to market their businesses. Moreover, the packed ball room was standing room only.

The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium's spring workshop on Analytics, Data and Accountability centered on how data and analytics must change as the U.S.