Texas Governor Says ‘No’ to Medicaid Expansion under ACA
Fresh off the news of the breadth of health care delivery in that state, Texas is telling the HHS that it will opt-out of insurance exchanges as part of the…
Distracted Driving – There’s an App for That
The Safety Report Magazine recently featured apps that can essentially lock down your phone while driving, cutting down on distracted driving. Now this may not be as big an issue…
Daycare Telemedicine Pilot
One of the concerns about placing your children in daycare is what happens when they get sick. Naturally, you don’t take a sick child to daycare, so we’re talking about…
The Case of the Broken Heart
A middle-aged woman woke up in the middle of the night with pain in her chest and shortness of breath. She was afraid that she was having a heart attack.…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Monitoring Melanoma with a Mobile
Some cancers get a lot of ‘play time,’ whether due to their prevalence, or voracity, or good organization on the parts of their patients.Somehow skin cancer, the most common type…
Newly Released: A Health Literacy Manifesto
Good news! The Center for Disease Control’s blog, Bridging the Health Literacy Gap–is back! Good news! The Center for Disease Control’s blog, Bridging the Health Literacy Gap–is back!In its come-back post,…
Personalized Prevention, Part IV
Earlier this year, I wrote a series of posts on the topic of Personalized Prevention. This is a term I coined to apply to the intersection between genomics and connected…
Recognize This Face?
I recently stumbled on a short BloombergBusinessWeek news item that said, in part:“Facebook Inc. (FB), owner of the world’s largest social-networking website, last month acquired Face.com, the Israeli maker of technology that helps…
Pay for Performance Attacks Medical Quality: Lincoln Lucks Out
Why does Pay for Performance (P4P) make most physicians reach for Maa Why does Pay for Performance (P4P) make most physicians reach for Maalox? I have devoted a good portion…
Social Learning in Medicine = #socialQI
The idea of supporting the medical profession though collaborative models of information flow, learning, and healthcare improvement has been bouncing around the house of medicine for years. There has always…
