Free Apps for the Mental Health Blogger
As I’m sure you may have noticed by the sheer number of posts I put out a week, I don’t run short of ideas.Between my own general interests, and breaking…
The Plague of Unnecessary Antibiotics
With regard to antibiotics, physicians and the public have each been enablers of the other. Patients want them and we doctors supply them. With regard to antibiotics, physicians and the…
Enhancing Training to Diminish Fears of Failure, Detection to Deter Research Misconduct
“Hoaxing, forging, trimming, and cooking” is how a scientist referred to the problem of research misconduct in 1830. Today’s terminology may be less colorful—“falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism”—but the problem remains…
When It Comes To Patient Engagement…It’s The Little Things That Count
I did a dumb thing a couple of weeks ago. I fell off a ladder on to a cement floor and broke some ribs.I went to the local ER, was…
Advance Practice Nurse Solution: Making Healthcare Affordable for All
Despite adding roughly 160k jobs to the economy in July, today’s jobsC report points out that the unemployment rate actually increased to 8.3%. How can this happen? According to Morgan…
NCQA Encourages Health IT Use Among Medical Specialists
Medical specialists are being encouraged to use more health information technology (health IT) thanks to a new program to be launched by The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in…
App-Happy Health Care Full of Optimism, Money
First posted on Kaiser Health News on 8/1/12There is a corner of the health care industry where rancor is rare, the chance to banish illness beckons just a few mouse…
Federal Legislation Introduced to Allow Telemedicine
First posted on The Fickenscher Files on 8/2/2012 First posted on The Fickenscher Files on 8/2/2012In late June, Representative Charlie Rangel introduced the ‘‘Veterans E-Health & Telemedicine Support Act of…
The Real Value of Networks Lies Within the Community
There is great value in learning about the science of social networks. As you might imagine, I believe that there is not a single facet of our lives that is…
The Coming Changes in Health Care Delivery
There will be some very disruptive and some transformational changes in the way health care is delivered, not as a result of reform, but as a result of the drivers…
