Medicine 2.0 Takes Harvard Medical School by Storm
Last weekend, Boston hosted 500 cutting-edge health care practitioners, academics, researchers, app developers and students – and all of those appellations applied to some of the participants simultaneously. The fifth…
Health IT’s Sharpening Focus: Calibrating Health Care
Sometimes the state of healthcare seems more like the movie “Snakes on a Plane” rather than the symbol of the serpent entwined on the Rod of Asclepius (the Greek god…
Smart and Healthy Snack Ideas for Diabetics
For diabetics, snacking is crucial to maintaining energy levels throughout the day. Because they can stabilize or quickly boost blood sugar levels, planned snacks help diabetics prevent hypoglycemia, manage…
Integrating the Military Patient Perspective into Medical Education and Patient Care
Serving in the military requires people to commit to a job where encountering extreme risks are always a possibility and could result in a life-altering injury. . An Institute of…
HealthCamp Boston 2012: Recap
HealthCamp Boston 2012 took place on Friday September 14. We had an energized group of over 130 campers in attendance. The invitation to the unconference, highlighting issues we thought would…
Square Peg in a Round Hole: Data Privacy and Security Laws and Standards Meet Medicine 2.0
This presentation addresses in brief questions about the US health care data privacy security and data breach notification regulatory scheme known as HIPAA, its application to the Medicine 2.0 environment,…
America Has A Health Care Paradox
We have a real paradox in American healthcare. On the one hand we have exceptionally well educated and well trained providers who are committed to our care. We are…
The Traditional Patient “Sick Role” Is A Major Barrier To High Quality Health Care
Each of us wears many different “hats” throughout the course of the day. We are an employee, a wife, a father, a club member, a consumer and so on. It…
National Adult Day Services Week (September 18-24)
At work, you try to concentrate, but there’s only thing on your mind: Is my elderly mother safe by herself at home? Or maybe you need to run errands, but…
ACOG’s Dysmenorrhea FAQs: Evidence of Propaganda?
I have been looking up information on endometriosis for a friend of mine, and came upon this from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: I have been looking up information…
