Blog — Sanaz Cordes, MD

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.

Sanaz Cordes, MDOctober 31, 2019entrepreneurship, fitness, healthy living, body acceptance

How cars and carbon monoxide detecters are smarter than your EHR

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

Sanaz Cordes, MDOctober 25, 2019connectivity, EHR, alerts, disparate data, telehealth, predictive analytics

Everything old is new again: The human and 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.

Sanaz Cordes, MDOctober 11, 2019medical imaging, radiology, vendor neutral archive, PACs, VNA, healthcare costs

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.

Sanaz Cordes, MDSeptember 23, 2019intellectual property, IP, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, USPTO, FTO, health tech, startups

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.

Sanaz Cordes, MDSeptember 10, 2019Quadruple Aim, physician experience, physician satisfaction

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.

Sanaz Cordes, MDSeptember 4, 2019edtech, healthtech, startups, acquistion, private equity, venture capital

Siblings and Autism

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

Sanaz Cordes, MDSeptember 3, 2019siblings, autism, spectrum, ASD

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.

Sanaz Cordes, MDApril 29, 2019

The ecosystem of clinical decision-making

When I meet someone for the first time and am asked what type of work I do, I typically need to pause and make a quick assessment of whether the inquiring person.

Bertina Yen, MDJanuary 16, 2019

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.

Sanaz Cordes, MDOctober 1, 2018data security, HITRUST, SOC 2, PHI, Privacy Rule, OCR Security Rule, Privacy Act, IP, startups, health tech

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.”

Lee Milligan, MD | CMIO, Asante Health SystemSeptember 4, 2018EHR, emergency department, ED, ER, CDS, clinical decision support

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.

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?

A picture’s worth a thousand…dollars?

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

Sanaz Cordes, MDJune 7, 2018medical imaging, DICOM, non-DICOM, photos, mobile imaging, HIPAA, PHI, breach

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.

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.

Sanaz Cordes, MDMay 7, 2018patient-centered care, MACRA, PFCC, ICU

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.

The arrival of natural language processing in healthcare

“Arrival” is a story about humanity’s first contact with aliens and how a pair of scientist find ways to communicate without a common language.

Dave PaigeMarch 8, 2018

CMS Dollars Part IV: VBP Made Simple - Slot Machines and High Roller Tables

Do you enjoy a good game of poker or blackjack? Does anteing up money, taking calculated risks, and hoping for financial reward get you excited?

Nadia Christensen, MDFebruary 15, 2018Value Based Purchasing, VBP, DRG, CMS reimbursement, ACA

CMS dollars part III: HAC program made simple - the unwanted visitor

Unfortunately, it happens all the time. You take your elderly motherr into the hospital for a routine surgery such as a total hip replacement, and while being treated for the hip, she ends up with a Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC).