Monthly News Roundup: The Top 5 Stories in Digital Health
We’ve wrangled last month’s top 5 stories at the intersect of health and digital communications — let us know what you find most useful. We’ve wrangled last month’s top 5…
Custom-Tailored Meaningful Use
Almost one year ago Paulo Machado called me on the phone. I had been following him on twitter for a while, but he had recently seen Matthew Browning wearing a…
Preventing Alzheimer’s Before Disease Onset: A Key Expert Weighs In
In this interview by Andrew Schorr of Patient Power, Dr. Reisa Sperling, a neurologist and leading Alzheimer’s disease expert, discusses new research focused on preventing Alzheimer’s before disease onset. Dr.…
mHealth: Valuable Information in PwC Report, But are the Findings Remarkable?
A recent report, (PDF link) “Emerging mHealth: Paths for growth,” commissioned by PwC, (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) the Economist Intelligence Unit, is well executed, however it’s important to understand the research sample for…
Presentation at H2.0 Hospital Liquido Barcelona, June 12
Electronic Medical Records: From Clinical Decision Support to Precision MedicineWith an emphasis on lethal lag time and how EMRs can be used to bring new discoveries to medical practice more…
How LifeBridge Health Employees Get in Shape for the Summer
You won’t find the Housewives of Carroll County gabbing with Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live,” or snapping up a college tuition’s worth of bling at Tiffany’s. Instead of…
Rock Health Rocks
I recently attended Rock Health’s Demo Day. Rock Health is a woman-owned, San Francisco-based health technology incubator that has been phenomenally good at picking the young health tech companies they…
Ingredients of an Effective Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Be Sure to Add Health IT and Medical Device Innovation
It is common knowledge that antibiotic resistance is on the rise. For example, infection with resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC), once found only in North Carolina, now plagues 37 states. It is common…
‘Luddite Approach’ to Telemedicine
I actually had to look up “luddite” to confirm what I thought it meant. It’s a term that has its origins in 1811 and the early stages of the industrial revolution. Luddite represents…
Encryption-on-the-Go: Personal Mobile Devices and BYOD
TechNewsWorld interviewed me not long ago for an article looking at specific issues related to personal mobile devices in healthcare environments. The article is Part 2 of a series, so…
