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January 5, 2022
Sanaz Cordes, MD
Healthcare Predictions for 2022

Over the past two years, healthcare organizations faced significant challenges. Here are my predictions for the healthcare industry in 2022.

Healthcare Predictions for 2022
November 20, 2019
Sanaz Cordes, MD
Forget smoking or fried food: Sitting might be ...

Sitting for long periods of time has been recently linked with a number of health risks - including death.

Forget smoking or fried food: Sitting might be the biggest threat to your health
September 17, 2019
Sanaz Cordes, MD
Digital Health: A Booming Market for Boomers

In the same way that musicians, toymakers, and television producers took advantage of the “baby boom” in the 1950s and 1960s, the time has come for senior care digital technology to jump on the bandwagon of opportunity.

Digital Health:  A Booming Market for Boomers
September 10, 2019
Sanaz Cordes, MD
The Quadruple Aim: Let's Eat Some Cake.

In 2007, the IHI introduced the Triple Aim in reaction to debate for healthcare reform.  They defined a way to better deliver cost-effective healthcare to improve population health.

The Quadruple Aim: Let's Eat Some Cake.
September 4, 2019
Sanaz Cordes, MD
The Intersection of Edtech and Healthtech

Factoring in all these moving parts, one thing is clear: there is an opportunity for startups to lead the way to the intersection of health tech and edtech - both inside and outside school walls.  

The Intersection of Edtech and Healthtech
Sanaz Cordes, MD
January 5, 2022

Healthcare Predictions for 2022

Sanaz Cordes, MD
January 5, 2022
Healthcare Predictions for 2022

Over the past two years, healthcare organizations faced significant challenges. Here are my predictions for the healthcare industry in 2022.

Tagged: sitting, workplace, sedentary, health

Sanaz Cordes, MD
November 20, 2019

Forget smoking or fried food: Sitting might be the biggest threat to your health

Sanaz Cordes, MD
November 20, 2019
Forget smoking or fried food: Sitting might be the biggest threat to your health

Sitting for long periods of time has been recently linked with a number of health risks - including death.

Tagged: sitting, workplace, sedentary, health

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 17, 2019

Digital Health: A Booming Market for Boomers

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 17, 2019
Digital Health:  A Booming Market for Boomers

In the same way that musicians, toymakers, and television producers took advantage of the “baby boom” in the 1950s and 1960s, the time has come for senior care digital technology to jump on the bandwagon of opportunity.

Tagged: digital health, elderly, baby boomers, home healthcare, innnovation, startups, venture capital

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 10, 2019

The Quadruple Aim: Let's Eat Some Cake.

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 10, 2019
The Quadruple Aim: Let's Eat Some Cake.

In 2007, the IHI introduced the Triple Aim in reaction to debate for healthcare reform.  They defined a way to better deliver cost-effective healthcare to improve population health.

Tagged: quadruple aim, physician experience, physician satisfaction

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 4, 2019

The Intersection of Edtech and Healthtech

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 4, 2019
The Intersection of Edtech and Healthtech

Factoring in all these moving parts, one thing is clear: there is an opportunity for startups to lead the way to the intersection of health tech and edtech - both inside and outside school walls.  

Tagged: edtech, healthcare technology, digital health, ESSA, startups, innovation

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 3, 2019

Siblings and Autism

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 3, 2019
Siblings and Autism

As Autism Awareness Month comes to a close, I reflect on where my personal history with autism began.

Tagged: autism, siblings, Spectrum

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 3, 2019

Removing Barriers to Mental Health Therapy for Pediatric Patients

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 3, 2019
Removing Barriers to Mental Health Therapy for Pediatric Patients

Pediatricians are often on the front end of mental health support for pediatric and adolescent patients.

Tagged: mental health, pediatricians, adolescents, ADHD, bipolar, depression

Sanaz Cordes, MD
April 29, 2019

The Pediatricians Role in Special Education

Sanaz Cordes, MD
April 29, 2019
The Pediatricians Role in Special Education

Securing the diagnostic and ongoing services that patients with special needs require, both inside and outside of the classroom, is not easy.

Tagged: pediatrics, therapy, IEP, special education

Value Prop Shop
November 12, 2018

Fireside Chat with Attorney Tripp Stroud: Part II - Data Privacy and Security

Value Prop Shop
November 12, 2018
Fireside Chat with Attorney Tripp Stroud: Part II - Data Privacy and Security

Startups should build their product, from the outset, in a HIPAA-compliant way to avoid penalties, risk to sales, and costly technical debt that’s often revealed during due diligence.

Tagged: data security, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, PHI, Privacy Rule, OCR, Security Rule, Privacy Act

Sanaz Cordes, MD
October 31, 2018

Client Spotlight: One female-founder's quest to change how we define health, exercise, and body acceptance

Sanaz Cordes, MD
October 31, 2018
Client Spotlight:  One female-founder's quest to change how we define health, exercise, and body acceptance

It wasn’t until she pointed out that I had founded, self-funded, and built my company with virtually no resources, that I started to truly think of myself as a startup founder and entrepreneur. 

Tagged: entrepreneurship, female founders, fitness, healthy living

Sanaz Cordes, MD
October 25, 2018

THE CONNECTIVITY CONUNDRUM: HOW AUTOMOBILES AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS ARE SMARTER THAN THE EHR

Sanaz Cordes, MD
October 25, 2018
THE CONNECTIVITY CONUNDRUM: HOW AUTOMOBILES AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS ARE SMARTER THAN THE EHR

Alerts aren’t really “alerts” if you don’t know about them unless you actively open the patient’s EHR record first.

Tagged: connectivity, EHR, disparate data, telehealth

Sanaz Cordes, MD
October 12, 2018

Everything Old is New Again: The Human & Financial Cost of Duplicate Imaging

Sanaz Cordes, MD
October 12, 2018
Everything Old is New Again:  The Human & Financial Cost of Duplicate Imaging

Despite Peter Allen’s iconic lyrics, not everything ought to be new again.  A perfectly good imaging test, for example, doesn’t need to be made new again.

Tagged: medical imaging, radiology, healthcare costs, PACs, VNA, vendor neutral archive

Sanaz Cordes, MD
October 1, 2018

Fireside Chat with attorney Tripp Stroud: Part I - Protecting your IP

Sanaz Cordes, MD
October 1, 2018
Fireside Chat with attorney Tripp Stroud: Part I - Protecting your IP

Startups are often so overwhelmed that they overlook or delay devising a strategy to protect their intellectual property - until they are forced to.  

Tagged: intellectual property, IP, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, USPTO, FTO

Lee Milligan, MD | CMIO & VP, Asante Health System
September 4, 2018

How the EHR Makes Clinicians Feel Unsafe

Lee Milligan, MD | CMIO & VP, Asante Health System
September 4, 2018
How the EHR Makes Clinicians Feel Unsafe

In healthcare, we talk about patient safety, but oftentimes, it is the clinician who walks away from an experience with an EHR feeling “unsafe.”

Tagged: EHR, Emergency Department, ED, ER, CDS, clinical decisio support

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 1, 2018

In the era of “data gluttony,” one doc’s diet plan is as simple as red, yellow, and green

Sanaz Cordes, MD
September 1, 2018
In the era of “data gluttony,” one doc’s diet plan is as simple as red, yellow, and green

The EHR is user-hostile.  Our scars and bruises were proof of just how much.

Tagged: EHR, disparate data, health data, alerts, clinical surveillance, patient-centric, readmissions, length of stay, LOS, healthcare costs

Sanaz Cordes, MD
August 14, 2018

Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program: 
May the Odds Be Forever in Your Favor

Sanaz Cordes, MD
August 14, 2018
Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program:  
May the Odds Be Forever in Your Favor

Happy Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program! Are hospitals being asked to enter a grim battlefield?

Tagged: CMS reimbursement, Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program, HACRP, HAI, HAC, CDS, clinical decision support

Sanaz Cordes, MD
June 7, 2018

A picture’s worth a thousand…dollars?

Sanaz Cordes, MD
June 7, 2018
A picture’s worth a thousand…dollars?

Sharing images of ourselves doing extraordinarily fascinating things like eating dinner is now widely accepted

Tagged: medical imaging, DICOM, non-DICOM, photos, mobile imaging, HIPAA, PHI, breach

Sanaz Cordes, MD
May 17, 2018

Fireside Chat with Dr. Dan Gebremedhin – Flat rounds, super-sized Series A’s, and what happens next?

Sanaz Cordes, MD
May 17, 2018
Fireside Chat with Dr. Dan Gebremedhin – Flat rounds, super-sized Series A’s, and what happens next?

Pre-money valuations were driven up by a bidding war between interested investors and entrepreneurs.

Tagged: venture capital, fundraising, investor, capital, stock, preferred stock, flat round, down round, series A, valuations, cap table, acquisition, revenue, dilution, liquidation

Sanaz Cordes, MD
May 7, 2018

Patient and family-centered care: transforming care delivery in the intensive care unit

Sanaz Cordes, MD
May 7, 2018
Patient and family-centered care:  transforming care delivery in the intensive care unit

In the ICU, emotions are heightened, decision making is rapid, family member involvement is high, and the risk of death is always looming.

Tagged: patient-centered care, MACRA, PFCC, ICU

Sanaz Cordes, MD
April 5, 2018

Hospital Rapid Response Teams: Why run when you can fly?

Sanaz Cordes, MD
April 5, 2018
Hospital Rapid Response Teams:  Why run when you can fly?

Doing the right thing, 100% of the time and doing it earlier and more often is the next generation of rapid response programs.

Tagged: rapid response, code, IHI, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, RRT, ICU, cardiac arrest, transfers, mortality, EMR, alerts, automation

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