Patients Prefer Physicians’ Recommendations of Health Apps
Doctors always have had a lot of influence with their patients. And now, as healthcare continues to evolve via new technology, this physician influence extends even to health apps.Mitchell Research…
Activated, Empowered Patients Are Not New
One of the most inspiring athletes of the 2012 London Olympics is American swimmer Dana Vollmer who won the gold medal in the 100 meter butterfly by being the first…
Five Great Myths About Exercise
Almost everyone who has ever set his foot inside a gym feels that he is knowledgeable enough to advice other people on fitness related issues. This is the main reason…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
(credit to AslanMedia)October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.And it pays to be aware and increase awareness, since breast cancer occurs wi (credit to AslanMedia)October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.And it…
Innovating Healthcare System Strategy: Creating the Commercial ACO
Tick tock goes the clock….October 2012 will soon arrive and value-based payment will commence. In order to prepare for this change, hospitals and healthcare systems are simultaneously improving quality and…
Analysis: Access To Health Care Beginning To Look Like Airline Travel
The old axis of access in U.S. health care – insured or uninsured – is being replaced by the kind of gradations and complexity in determining who-gets-what-when-for-what-price for which the…
Inspector General Highlights Latest Episode in Medicare Waste
It’s not only the direct providers of patient care — the physicians, NPs, PAs, and other ancillaries — with whom one has to worry about issues of drug diversion and…
TV Anchorpeople and Illness: Lessons Learned
I’ve been thinking a lot about television anchors and personalities. As they get older they encounter health issues, like the rest of us, and they get publicized because we think…
8 Things Medical School Failed to Teach Me About Being a Physician Executive
You Will Have to Move a LotI went to medical school in Cleveland and did my pathology residency in San Francisco at UCSF. I was on the medical school faculty…
Best Hospital Lists: Rating the Rankers
Hospital ranking systems have been getting more attention in recent years as the number of rankings has proliferated, and as patients, purchasers, health plans and the government have taken a…
