Fly First Class and Pay Economy for HIPAA Compliance
The Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information; the HIPAA Security Rule, which sets national standards for the security…
New Series: Person-Centered HealthCare
HealthWorks Collective will begin a new exclusive ongoing series entitled "Person-Centered HealthCare". This series will revolve around the person and will focus on health, disease prevention, patient-centric treatment and therapy. …
Health Awareness Observances for the Month of September
What is your cholesterol level? Do you know how many men each year are diagnosed with prostate cancer? How often should you screen yourself for gynecologic cancer? You can learn…
African Conference Highlights Government Subsidized Healthcare Delivery
With all of the talk of healthcare (specifically, Medicare) reform going on this election season, it is interesting to note that abroad, reform is also being discussed just as…
Drawing an Infographic Line on Healthcare’s Future
Predicting the future is a risky game; too often, the prognosticator is wrong. But the exercise can be valuable, because it forces an analysis of forces driving technological and other…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: 10 Best Tools to Boost mHealth Initiatives in Africa: Part I
Basically any mHealth product/service is based on a mobile technology.For emerging areas like Africa, the technology used should be adapted to what is available there. And it’s often synonymous with…
Cervical Cancer? Yup, an App For That, Too–But Is It Any Good?
Given that it’s Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month, with cervical cancer claiming its spot as the most common of these cancers, I began to wonder what the app world is doing…
Is Lack of Telemedicine Reimbursement a Fair Excuse for NOT Getting Started With Telemedicine?
I recently had an enlightening video interview with Dr. Karen Rheuban, Director of the Virginia Telehealth Network, who explained how passage of telemedicine reimbursement legislation in Virginia dramatically increased telemedicine…
Dumb and Dumber: Marijuana and its Harm to IQ.
Medicinal? depends on who is using. Medicinal? depends on who is using. John D., a scientist of some renown were walking with his son along a gurgling creek near their home; Jim…
Medical Device Approval Process Under Fire
All parents have heard their kids complain that but for 1 or 2 percentage points, they would have achieved a higher grade. All parents have heard their kids complain that…
