May is National Bike Month
Did you know that if you avoided driving just 10 miles every week you would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions in a year? Now that the weather…
Scholarships for IT, Computer Science and Health IT Students
We’ve established a program to give tech-minded students a chance to support their college education from any accredited university, community college or vocational technical school.Interested in IT, computer sciences and/or…
What is Data Governance? And Why Does it Matter?
Written by Rita Bowen MA, RHIA, CHPS, SSGB, Sr Vice President of HIM and Privacy Officer of HealthPort The What If you look up governance in the dictionary it…
Countdown to National Employee Wellness Month
We are only two weeks away from the 4th Annual National Employee Wellness Month, a partnership between the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, Virgin Healthmiles, Strategies to Overcome and Prevent…
Medicine and Social Media – We’re Getting There- Slowly.
I’m enthusiastic about the changes that are taking place at the intersection of Healthcare-Medicine and Social Media…. and here’s a smattering of Twitter outtakes to “prove” it. Medicine and Social MediaPhysicians,Healthcare…
Green Garden Project “Grows” at Sinai
Did you ever think that you could have your very own garden box, full of vegetables, at work? Or that you could weed and water a garden during your lunch…
How Good a Doctor Are You?
Getting a medical degree is not easy: It requires 10 years of medical education and 16,000 hours of clinical experience to get certified to provide treatment. Even so, most of…
Inside IT Strategies – Moving Radiology Workflows to the Cloud
Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager, Healthcare IT, Carestream Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager, Healthcare IT, CarestreamLast May I was interviewed by Imaging Economics for a story about healthcare trends driving…
Social Media or Search Engines……The Chicken and/or the Egg?
Just a short time ago physicians and scientists had primarily one readily available search engine, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the NIH. Just a short time ago…
Can “Portfolio Theory” Be Applied to NIH Funding Decisions?
The National Institutes of Health has faced some critical fire lately: for funding studies that don’t turn into treatments, for not paying enough heed to the “valley of death” (the…
