What Patients Want… Online Access to Data!
New survey results highlight the disconnect between what patients want and what their physicians and hospitals can deliver. Data from the survey reveals that patients are interested in: New survey…
The Value of Real-Time Patient Data From the Home
Increasingly, real-time data generated from a patient’s home is becoming an integral part of the telehealth revolution. Increasingly, real-time data generated from a patient’s home is becoming an integral part…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Sana AudioPulse Screens for Hearing Loss in Infants
While the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends audio screening for all newborns to avoid speech and language impairment complications later on, this is often not done due to financial restrictions,…
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…
