Editor’s note: This blog was written by Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, a healthcare consultant and aging expert who helps CEOs connect the dots that start healthcare movements. Contact him at cirillo@4wardfast.com and learn more at www.4wardfast.com.   By now most of you have read about the ''Cheating Death'' debacle at CaroMont Health in ...

New tweet list! Boston bombing provider response; TEDMED; Epic, CommonWell and what really happened at HIMSS; and what successful people do on the weekends. Get daily tweets by following us @ExecInsight. FierceHealthIT In wake of Boston bombing, technology, social media enables rapid provider response http://t.co/XfRhHhSdlU John Moore May get ...

Editor's note: This blog was written by Daniella Koren, president, DKI. For the past 12 years, my focus and interest has been relationship marketing (RM), specifically patient relationship marketing. It has been the allure around building, segmenting and leveraging a database of qualified patients, usually suffering from disease states where ...

Editor's note: This blog was written by Louis Winokur, director of data and analytics, DKI. One of the hottest marketing catch phrases of 2012 is ''data is the new creative.'' The premise is that all of the creative in the world won't help you if your decisions aren't data-driven. Data is the New Creative! For those who are squarely in the ...

Millennials, tech and the future. Bad managerial buzzwords. HIPAA and mHealth. See what else made news this week, and catch more tweets by following us @ExecInsight. Dion Hinchcliffe CIOs Look Ahead: Millennials, Consumer Tech and the Future ...

Editor’s note: This blog was written by Danielle Koren, president and founder, DKI. In today’s fast-shifting patient-centric world, do we know what patients with serious diseases really want when it comes to information about their health? And are pharmaceutical companies listening? Many of the lessons here can be applied to hospitals as ...

Editor's note: This blog was written by Steve Hughes, RM data manager & modeler, DKI. We recently completed the first phase of a yearlong social listening project for one of our clients. It's a global project, spanning seven countries and includes ''listening in'' on all of the popular social media channels - Twitter, Facebook, Sina Wiebo (a ...

‘Companion diagnostics’ is a term that’s been in the news recently as more drug/big pharma and diagnostic developers partner to focus on technical/scientific advances in predictive biomarker identifications and development and subsequent commercialization. And heavy hitters like Siemens, Roche, Vantana, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, to name only a ...

We've compiled our top favorite tweets of the week from accounts we follow on Twitter. Be sure to follow Executive Insight by going to @ExecInsight!   @HITExchange Just don’t text it (patient orders), Joint Commission says security risk too high http://bit.ly/tpnKQ4   @iHealthBeat Mobile health market likely to exceed $400M by ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog is written by Glen McDaniel, who writes the ''Scope of Practice'' column for ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals and provides healthcare consulting for hospitals, corporations and investment bankers; he also recently served as a hospital COO.) Less than 8 years ago, as a Harvard sophomore, Mark ...