Reaching Prospective Medical Students Where They Are: Online
Today, Baylor College of Medicine – and 19 other institutions – is holding its second online student recruitment event. In terms of partnership, collaboration, and reach, the Biomedical Virtual Recruiting…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Mayo Clinic’s Three “P”s
Last week I attended the Mayo Clinic's Annual Social Media Summit in Rochester. What most impressed me had nothing to do with the conference. On Tuesday afternoon before the Summit…
Science for Sale: The Very Sad Case of Medtronic’s “Infuse”
Recently, I met with an Israeli naturopath who wanted to crowdfund his products on my new platform, Health Tech Hatch. After about 20 minutes of discussion, it was clear that…
Determining Paths of Research
As reported in this blog time and again, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease certainly understands and values the heavy burdens patients and providers alike have to take into consideration…
Does Your Hospital Stay in Touch with Patients All the Time?
According to a recent study, patients want their doctors to reach out to them proactively even when they aren’t sick. The study revealed that they want their physician to communicate…
Halloween Alert! Can You Really Be Scared to Death?
Halloween is just around the corner. And the Grim Reaper is lurking around the corner...I thought it might be fun to talk about the burst of fright that so closely follow that…
Insurers Begin Push to Consumers in Advance of ACA
Move over, retail clinics. Say hello to the latest healthcare entrant into the retail space — insurers. Because of the ACA and the mandated offerings due to take place by…
MGMA 2012 Annual Conference – Small Steps, Big Changes
I spent a couple days this week at the annual meeting of the Medical Group Management Association, in San Antonio. I had the opportunity to speak about health care social…
Would Increased Reimbursement And Longer Visits Improve Physician-Patient Communications?
In a word…no.It has been said that a physician’s patient communication skills are just as important as their clinical knowledge. After all, it is only by “talking to and listening…
How Australia’s Universal Health Care System Measures Up Internationally
How Australia’s Universal Health Care System Mesaures Up Internationally How Australia’s Universal Health Care System Mesaures Up InternationallyYou can learn a lot about a country by their healthcare system. Australia…
