Preventive Medicine and Public Health
One of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease’s main tenants is to promote a collective focus on investing in and promoting ways to both better tackle the incidence of chronic…
Meaningful Use: Transforming Patient Engagement
This morning I sent out a press release for Tower and also want to also share it with my blogosphere readers. As always, I'm interested in your thoughts and hope you will…
ICD-10 Delay 1 Year to 2014, HHS Announces
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Announces ICD-10 Delay 1 Year to 2014The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a rule finalizing the ICD-10…
A Mashup for Doctor Patient Relationships
A mashup, is a web page or application that combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services. A mashup, is a web page or…
The Walking Gallery: Walking around the World
I am getting ready for the Walking Gallery gathering in Kansas City, and I thought you might like to see where our Walkers live. I gathered this data using LinkedIn,…
Father’s Age and Child’s Psychiatric Disease –What’s the Connection?
Good old Dad and baby Source: Flikcr Creative Commons Good old Dad and baby Source: Flikcr Creative CommonsThe prophet Ezekiel questioned the justice of God’s punishment of the children of…
Wanted: Electronic Health Records
As technology races forward in today’s fast-paced world, more physicians are interested in making the switch not only to electronic health records (EHRs), but also accessing these records via a…
High Expectations for mHealth in Developing Countries
A recent report by the Digital Innovation in Healthcare working group states that governments of the developing countries must take hand in enhancing digital technology if they want to improve the…
When Does Life Begin? An Important Limitation of the Personhood Movement
Dear readers, I can’t resist recycling this one given the recent swirl of on- and off-line conversations and rants about abortion, the personhood movement, and sexual assault stimulated not only…
Hippocratic Oath, Then and Now
In the midst of chaos and turmoil for physicians in America it is as important as ever to maintain our hippocratic oath. Now is the time to review what…
