Digital Health Gets Extended (Television) Coverage
Digital health is propelled by many different drivers: genomics research that allows for inexpensive, accurate sequencing (and biomarker discovery), smart phone and internet technology that provides consumers with access, and…
Alcohol Abuse a Growing Problem for Older Adults
The Administration on Aging and The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration issued a brief on Alcohol Misuse and Abuse Prevention. Community surveys have estimated the prevalence of problem…
Help Us Help You Turn Your Smartphone into a Healthcare Advocate
Five years ago, if someone suggested you hire a patient advocate, you might ask “what’s a patient advocate?” Today, you’d be more likely to respond: “Which one do you recommend?”…
How Doctors’ Use of Mobile Technology Impacts Telehealth
Telehealth is increasingly intertwined with mobile health. Telehealth is increasingly intertwined with mobile health. Use of mobile devices is on the rise by healthcare consumers and providers alike.Demand for mobile…
How Do You Decide What Features to Add to Your Software?
Given the well-warranted focus on design these days it’s always difficult to find the right balance between features that we should add to our software and those that we leave…
By 2020, Expert Patients Will Self-Manage 95% of Their Preventive and Chronic Care
Patients titrating and administering their own medication? Sounds like some futuristic scene from a sci-fi movie where Doctors no longer exist and patients are in charge of their own healthcare. …
A $400,000 Drug and Why It Matters for Global Health
This year, Revista Epoca reported that a man named Rafael Favaro sued the government of Brazil to obtain public subsidy for lifetime treatment of a rare form of anemia (PNH). His…
Connected Health, Reimbursement, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
We’re starting to see some funny economics emerge as healthcare payment reform truly takes shape. Just this last week I saw two interesting, unrelated articles that give us a glimpse…
America Has a Medical Care System Not a Health Care System
As Americans we believe we have the best healthcare system in the world. But think again, it’s really not the truth. Health care delivery is dysfunctional. We do have superb medical…
How to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Bedridden Patients
Bedsores, also known as a pressure ulcer, pressure sore, or decubitus ulcer, occur when seniors are immobilized and confined to bed for a prolonged period of time. Unrelieved pressure…
