Fastest Growing Metro Areas: How will Healthcare be impacted?

Fastest Growing Metro Areas: How will Healthcare be impacted?

Raleigh, Provo UT, and Fort Myers are going to double in size in the next 15 years. New York, LA, and Chicago — the 1, 2, 3 of largest metros — are only going to grow by 10%. Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta (4, 5, and 6) will grow about 50%. As the Boomers retire to warm weather states, the change and impact to healthcare delivery...

Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients

Per our webinar on the financial crisis:  In another sign of the economy’s toll on the nation’s health care system, some hospitals say they are seeing fewer paying patients — even as greater numbers of people are showing up at emergency rooms unable to pay their bills. – Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients, New York Times I was...

The Impact on the Global Financial Crisis, Part II

MedTouch Webinar: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Healthcare, Part II from MedTouch on Vimeo. The news about the financial sector meltdown is everywhere, but how will it impact healthcare? In this second part of a special webinar, Paul Griffiths, the CEO of MedTouch, will walk through how the sub-prime crisis led into Wall St....

Will More Women Doctors Make American Medicine More Caring and More Patient Centered?

As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, we’re taking some time to look at the increasing challenge of recruiting quality physicians and as discussed, the profession is going to be rocked by a series of changes, most notably the gender change. The Changing Face of Medicine, due out later this year, will address the issue of the gender...

Physician Shortages: 3 Big Reasons It’s Getting Harder to Find Doctors… And the Adverse Impacts to Patient Care

We’ve done a fair amount of research this year on the impact of the physician shortage and how it will hamstring the marketing, planning, and delivery of healthcare services in the future. The silent killer is patient access.   The less chance a patient has of being seen quickly, the worse off he or she will be.  Having an adequate supply...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s “The Future of the American Hospital” Conference

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is hosting a new conference on The Future of the American Hospital As I grew up in the rust-belt of Upstate New York, I am well aware of the level of quality of RPI’s educational programs and I’m sure this foray into healthcare has been well thought out. (Except, perhaps, for not inviting us to...

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