by Rick Ybarra | May 28, 2014 | Blog, Hogg Blog
by Rick Ybarra Ok, I’ll admit it. I read the Harvard Business Review. I am fascinated with business models, new concepts, innovations and the cutting edge in business science. I also see how these concepts and applications can easily transfer to our health care...
by Rick Ybarra | May 16, 2014 | Blog, Hogg Blog
Kudos to the Commonwealth Fund for their recent publishing of the Scorecard on State Health System Performance, 2014. The Scorecard assesses states on 42 indicators of health care access, quality, costs and outcomes from 2007 to 2012. Overall, changes in health system...
by Rick Ybarra | Mar 18, 2014 | Blog, Hogg Blog
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation brief highlighted an area that does not get enough attention in the health care reform dialogue: patient engagement (PE). Yes, we talk about it. Our friends at the RWJF are sharing first-hand accounts and lessons learned from grantee...
by Rick Ybarra | Jan 22, 2014 | Blog, Hogg Blog
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, MD is a primary care physician and Executive Director of Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. He is best known for his ground-breaking and innovative work in “hotspotting,” the concept of lowering medical costs by providing the neediest...
by Rick Ybarra | Jan 6, 2014 | Blog, Hogg Blog
I was intrigued by a LinkedIn post by Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She talks about her big idea of creating a culture of health. She’s absolutely right on! Often we get caught up in the minutia of attempting to solve...
