Engaging Patients In Care Planning – What Providers Say And How They Say It Matters
The following is s post by Carolyn Thomas, a fellow 2012 Stanford Medicine X e-patient scholar, which she wrote for her award-winning blog Heart Sisters.Imagine that your daughter is preparing…
College Health Insurance is About to Get a Lot More Expensive
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is having an impact on nearly every corner of the health care market. Student health plans for college students are no exception.…
Wal-Mart Clinics Go Live In the Cloud with Smart Care Doc–Telemedicine
I went to the Smart Care Doc and so far it looks as though there is one in Pennsylvania that is on board so far. A registered nurse greets the…
Medical Marijuana Is Now Legal In Connecticut–17th State to Legalize
The law is a little different than in most states as pharmacists will be providing it, that is after they have been certified. There’s a limit on that as…
DocCheck – The European Social Medwork
With over 850,000 users DocCheck is Europe’s largest internet community for healthcare professionals (HCP). DocCheck offers its services for HCPs in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and…
How To Get Rid Of Belly Fat: The Roles Diet, Stress, And Exercise Play In Belly Fat Reduction (Part 3)
By Brian Rigby, Clinical Nutrition Writer By Brian Rigby, Clinical Nutrition Writer The Link Between Belly Fat And Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes And Arthritis Chronic inflammation has been linked to…
How to Design Next-Generation EHR Data Models
Today’s reality of patient management is “disjointed care” and most of the collaborators in a patient’s care team don’t know what each other is doing for the patient in…
The Walking Gallery at HealthData and Information Week – Storified
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When 35,000 Healthcare Professionals “Learn” in 35,000 Different Ways…
I had a great opportunity to skype in to give a brief talk on Saturday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting. I had a great opportunity to…
On “Empowering Patients in the Age of Genomic Medicine”
The concept of the citizen scientist is new to healthcare, since medicine has historically been physician-driven. But the citizen scientist has long been an important part of many other areas…
