Better Patient Satisfaction – Which Model to Follow?
Patient satisfaction is an important element of medical care. Patient satisfaction is an important element of medical care. It was always important, but it has taken on a new significance…
3 Rapid-Fire Health Care Social Media Networking Tips
Lead, listen and learn how to engage in health care social media networking. Lead, listen and learn how to engage in health care social media networking. 1. Leadership – Innovation…
Social Leadership in HealthCare
By now you must be sick of reading about social media on the Health Train Express. However I have more reason than ever to believe social media will continue to…
Sharing Content in Medicine: Readlists
Sharing Meaningful Medical ContentFace it, our patients forget nearly 80% or more of what we tell them after they leave our office. We may have shared some very valuable tidbits…
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…
