Blog

Welcome to Nancy Finn’s blogs, a collection of timely and relevant articles that cover topics on health, wellness, and digital health all from the patient’s perspective. The blog posts are a critical overview of the healthcare industry. Topics include:

Digital Health,

Mobile phone apps and their ability monitor and manage chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, weight, and breathing disorders such as Asthma and COPD. AI bots such as Chat GPT, CoPilot, Bard, and more;

Electronic Health Records and Patient Portals,

Web Resources to find answers to common health issues;

Social Networking

Telehealth

Short Message Systems

Health Information Exchange

Cost of Care including:

Health insurance plans,

Hospital charges,

Medication pricing including Co-Pay.

Patient Empowerment and Engagement using apps for social networking, tips and suggestion on how to communicate with provider, and other interested parties, how to find valid health information.

Finding Healthcare, including:

Retail Clinics, telehealth, urgent care centers, emergency departments

Hospitals, Community Health Centers

Providers, including: PCPs Concierge doctor, Nurse practitioners, Physician assistants.

Reengineering Healthcare

Medicare for All;

Universal Health Coverage; and

Eliminating Waste in the Health System.

Health Equity including options and choices, legislation and regulation, payment plans such as Obamacare and Federal programs, diversity and disparities.

The Patient Experience including: coordination of care & collaboration.

Patient Safety — Medical Adherence,

Quality in Care Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

Privacy of health information/patient rights

The Future

Genetics,

Genomics,

Robotics,

AI in health other technologies