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Accenture Says Physician Laggards are Poised to Finally Adopt

by Clive Riddle, March 5, 2010

Smaller physician offices, lacking infrastructure and capital and perhaps motivation, have been viewed as the stumbling blocks to widespread physician EMR adoption................Click to continue

TowersWatson Employer Survey: Employees and Vendors aren’t getting it done

by Clive Riddle, February 24, 2010

Employers hold employee health habits and lack of engagement largely to blame for cost increases, and feel vendors are ineffective at getting this behavior to change.

TowersWatson just released results from their 15th Annual National Business Group on Health/Towers Watson Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care. The study finds that................Click to continue

A Fresh Look: Consumerism Web Summit 2010

by Claire Thayer, February 18, 2010

MCOL’s Healthcare Web Summit has announces it’s Ninth Annual Consumerism Web Summit event, co-sponsored by CDHC Solutions. Mark you calendars to join us on Thursday, March 18, 2010 to learn more about the future direction of health care consumerism................Click to continue

Membercentricity Defines Medicare Member Retention

By Lindsay Resnick, February 8, 2010

Member-centric Medicare Advantage plans have loyal, trusting customers. It’s not easy to steal a loyal member. More importantly, loyalty equals customer LifeTime Value which translates into stable membership and sustained profitability................Click to continue

Women Rule in Consumer Health Internet use

By Clive Riddle, February 4, 2010

The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics this week released preliminary results from their National Health Interview Survey, a national household survey regarding consumer use of health information technology with data collected from January through June 2009...............Click to continue

Results from the Future Care 2010 e-poll

By Clive Riddle, President, MCOL

MCOL has just released results from our eighth annual Future Care* e-poll survey conducted this month of Future Care web summit attendees and MCOL members. Almost all responses were received after the Brown Massachusetts Senate election. Respondents represented the following perspectives..............Click to continue

 


MCOLBlog Team

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William DeMarco
President
DeMarco and Associates
Rockford, IL


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Laurie Gelb
Independent Consultant
Wilmington, DE


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Lindsay Resnick
Chief Marketing Officer - Gorman Health Group
Chief Excutive Officer - Axios Group
Chicago, IL


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Clive Riddle
President
MCOL
Modesto, CA


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Claire Thayer
Vice President, Research and Development
MCOL
Portland, OR


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