How 10.10.10 Health Produced a Transformative Healthcare Company
DENVER, Colo. — “I was in the process of shutting down my company. Sitting on the couch, staring at the wall, and everything was dark.” At…
Articles by John Oro MD
Telespine: Transforming the Delivery of Spinal Rehabilitation
BOULDER, Colo. – In 2006, Mark Barnes designed a detailed physical therapy exercise plan for his own back injury. Deeply frustrated after leaving his instructions…
Physicians Turn to Skywriter MD to Reduce Administrative Burden
From a physician’s perspective, the digital health revolution crashed on the shores of the electronic health record. Navigated using hundreds of keystrokes through a frequently…
Ransomware Strikes the Healthcare Industry
In November 2015 the Cyber Threat Alliance reported over 400,000 ransomware computer systems attacks, which together resulted in $325 million in damages. This relatively new…
The EHR: From Disillusionment To User-Centric Design
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 included incentives and penalties for the adoption of the electronic health record…
Healthcare’s Most Successful Digital Transformation
In 1979 Heinz Lemke, a computer sciences Professor of the Technical University of Berlin, and his colleagues published a report that would upend 83 years…
The Digital Health Opportunity: Medicare Readmissions Penalties
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, a leading 1,200 bed academic medical center in St. Louis, provided approximately $200 million in Medicare services in 2012. That year, the Center…
Peter Kung: Navigating Training & Experience to Become a Leader in Virtual Health
DENVER – Peter Kung is System Vice President of Virtual Health at SCL Health System, a position that puts him in the forefront of the…
Two Digital Health Startups Win the 2015 Denver Challenge Cup
Two Colorado digital health startup companies, Prima-Temp and NextStep.io, won the 2015 Denver Challenge Cup held at The Commons on Champa on November 24, 2015….
Digital Health Startup Kurbo Health Takes Aim At Childhood Obesity
DENVER — Are you a healthcare provider who regularly encounters young patients struggling with obesity? If so, you are not alone. According to the CDC,…
The Challenge of Childhood Obesity: Prime Health Panel Discussion
Denver – Bending the increasingly upward curve of childhood obesity in the US is a daunting task. Help has traditionally come from parents, primary care…