Innovative Ways for Older Americans to be Never too Old to Play
Finding ourselves on the cusp of the close of Older Americans month and the entrée to the summer season – Memorial Day, it seems fitting to mention the “Never…
States Should Stop Diverting Stop-Smoking Money
The states and cigarette industry have a symbiotic relationship. Tobacco companies have paid states close to $250 billion in settlement money since 1998, and much of that money was meant…
Video: Driving Value With Technology Investments
From meaningful use to mobile health, hospitals have no shortage of IT needs, but limited budgets to fulfill them. Tim Zoph, CIO of Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in Chicago, talks to…
Electronic Health Records: Progress, Not Panacea
by Kenneth Lin, MD by Kenneth Lin, MDYesterday, the family medicine residency program where I serve as a faculty preceptor “went live” with their new electronic health record. They posted…
Drug Stores Better at Detecting Counterfeit Drugs than Government
American Enterprise Institute scholar, Roger Bate, tested the quality of the antibiotic drug, Ciprofloxacin, purchased in 18 low-to-middle income countries. Of the 1,437 samples tested, more than half were either…
The Doctors and Richard Simmons
The Doctors have been focused on exercise this month and I thought I'd share this video clip as a reminder to all doctors to have those conversations about weight and…
“To be Effective, Patient Engagement Must be Defined”
By: Waco Hoover, CEO, Institute for Health Technology Transformation By: Waco Hoover, CEO, Institute for Health Technology TransformationIn April 2011 the Institute released a research paper on patient engagement entitled,…
Calcium Supplements May be Bad for Your Heart. Or not.
I feel caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. A new study just released in the journal Heart shows that calcium supplements — the type that many women take…
A New, Improved Genetic Code? You Betcha!
What if I told you that in the not-too-distant future, scientists could make antibodies that are 100 times more effective than the ones nature provides, or that they could create…
Unhappy Doctors
According to the survey, only 54% of physicians would choose medicine as a career if they had to make the decision again as opposed to 69% in the previous year.…
