Payer+Provider in the News – June 2012

BOSTON– July 1, 2012: June 2012 was a month marked by numerous media appearances for Payer+Provider Syndicate. Payer+Provider experts provided commentary in a broad variety of forums over the course of the month. Becker’s Hospital Review featured Payer+Provider commentary in the articles “6 Valuable Outcomes Cloud Technologies Offer Hospitals” and “6 Trends in an Era of Consumer-Driven Healthcare“. The commentary on cloud technologies was subsequently featured in an article by Paragon Development Systems, while the commentary on consumer-driven healthcare was […]

TraumaQi Featured on KevinMD.com

NASHUA – June 6, 2012: An essay on the influence of fatigue on claim quality written by Dr. Adam Powell was featured on KevinMD.com, the site of social media’s leading physician voice. In the essay, Dr. Powell described the problem behind Payer+Provider’s TraumaQi service: While there is an extensive literature on how tired, overworked physicians provide lower quality medical care, one thing that has been ignored by advocates of quality improvement is that overwork financially harms hospitals as well. Just […]

Dr. Powell discusses working in the Chinese healthcare industry

BANGKOK – May 7, 2012: Dr. Adam Powell was recently interviewed by the site Emerging Market Careers on both his career in healthcare economics and his interest in the Chinese healthcare market. Dr. Powell was asked a series of questions in the article, including, “You’ve mentioned that you admire some of the contrasts between the Chinese healthcare system and that of the United States. How do these differences result in business opportunities in China for enterprising entrepreneurs and professionals looking for jobs […]

Dr. Concannon recognized for his research on comparative effectiveness

BOSTON – April 24, 2012: The American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, recently released a review of the most important papers on health costs, cost-effectiveness, and resource utilization. The list featured one of Dr. Thomas Concannon’s papers, and cited two of them. The paper featured on the list, “Comparative effectiveness of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction regionalization strategies,” compared several scenarios for increasing access to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Dr. Concannon and colleagues […]

Dr. Powell featured in Reuters article

NEW YORK – April 19, 2012: One of the responsibilities of Payer+Provider Syndicate experts is to provide insights through interviews with representatives from other organizations and the media. To fulfill this, our experts regularly discuss healthcare-related topics with the media. Last week, Dr. Adam Powell spoke to a reporter from Reuters in order to provide key insights into how consumers can best utilize health savings accounts (HSAs).