Below is a message that CHC President and CEO Mark Masselli distributed to our receptionists to celebrate National Receptionists Day! This is a day of recognition for our Receptionist – you are the Directors of First Impressions. You help create the favorable image that CHC has with its patients. We celebrate you today! And every day we are thankful that you are at CHC and appreciative the difference you make in the lives of people we care for – Peace…
This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Roni Zeiger, CEO of Smart Patients, a clinical trials search engine and online community for cancer patients, their caregivers and clinicians to share information about best practices in cancer treatment. Dr. Zeiger is the former Chief Health Strategist for Google.
This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Kenneth Mandle, Director of the Intelligent Health Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Mandl is a pioneer in consumer information technologies and biosurveillance, creating platforms for sharing big health data as well as assisting the Department of Health and Human Services in developing an app store for health care innovators.
Below is an email sent out by Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter celebrating the 41st anniversary of CHC. May 1st CHC Celebrates 41st Anniversary Just a few days ago, Margaret and I journeyed to Boston to spend a week with twelve sister Health Centers from across the country who have banded together to form a network of Best Practice Health Centers. Our ranks included Health Centers from Hawaii to East Boston; some of us care for farm workers, others tend…
This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Deputy Director for Policy and Regulation at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Department of Health and Human Services. They discuss plans underway at HHS to facilitate access to the newly created health Insurance Exchanges, the online insurance marketplaces for Americans to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
This past Saturday, I attended the Quinnipiac Health Law Journal’s “Primary Care and the Law Symposium” at the Quinnipiac University School of Law. The event ran from 9am to 3pm and featured three panels of accomplished leaders in the fields of healthcare and law in addition to a keynote address from Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, president and principal founder of Primary Care Progress. An inaugural undertaking by Quinnipiac’s Health Law Journal, Center for Interprofessional Healthcare Education, and schools of Law, Nursing,…