Things Aren’t Always As They May Seem: The Challenge of Diagnosing and Treating Cardiovascular Disease in Women
Recently, television personality Rosie O’Donnell was in the headlines after suffering a heart attack. Her presentation with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) was atypical; her symptoms were different from the traditional symptoms…
Innovating The Nurse Practitioner Role in Chronic Disease Management
In a special Health Affairs report, Rachel Garfield, PhD, of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, and Anthony Damico, PhD, of the Kaiser Family Foundation, determined that Medicaid’s…
Invasion of the C.Diff
I often do things that frustrate my children. Whether is singing loudly off-key or ruffling their hair in front of their friends, my response to their complaint is always the…
Forecast Looks Clear for Cloud Computing
According to a MarketsandMarkets report entitled “Healthcare Cloud Computing Market – Global Trends, Challenges, Opportunities & Forecasts,” the global healthcare cloud computing market is projected to increase to a value…
Equipping EMS Workers: Trying to Create an ER on Wheels
Cardiac arrest kills nearly 300,000 people per year in the U.S. Of these victims, more than half die within two hours, sometimes long before ever arriving at a hospital –…
Most Patients Who Contact Telenurse Follow Advice
According to a study conducted by Dr. Bev Williams, associate professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, most patients who called a telephone health advice line known as LINK…
Cancer in Someone Hairier Than Me and You
Peanut has a blood cancer – non- Hodgkin lymphoma – and she’s getting great medical care. Do you know her? If you live in South Florida you might. This is…
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…
