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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
William DeMarco
President
DeMarco and Associates
Rockford, IL
Laurie Gelb
Independent Consultant
Wilmington, DE
Lindsay Resnick
Chief Marketing Officer - Gorman Health Group
Chief Excutive Officer - Axios Group
Chicago, IL
Clive Riddle
President
MCOL
Modesto, CA
Claire Thayer
Vice President, Research and Development
MCOL
Portland, OR