The Irony of Workplace Wellness
The cycle: The cycle: 1. Work and the workplace environment causes STRESS.Unreasonable expectations, caustic management styles and a recession weary workforce has made the American workplace one of the most stressful…
mHealth: Mitigating Mobile Security Risks
With the use of mobile devices in the healthcare industry come several risks and points of entry, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. These points are listed below,…
Focused Ultrasound Used in New Tumor Detection Technique
A team led by Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD at Stanford University has received a $100,000 research award from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation to develop an innovative early detection technique…
Telemonitoring Can Help Control and Lower Blood Pressure, Research Shows
Research presented by the American Heart Association may diminish the number of heart attacks, strokes and other complications in patients with high blood pressure. They found that patients who participated…
FDA Power Grab
As health-care providers computerize how they take care of us, we’re computerizing how we take care of ourselves—and how we connect back to our doctors. There are apps for managing…
How to Game Mortality Data
There is a great illustration in this BMJ article of what I discuss in Chapter 2 of my book: the type of mortality that matters. In the figure below from…
What Do Patients Want From Social Media? And What Should They Want?
HealthcareIT News summarizes six points from a talk by Jessie Gruman, president of the Center of Advancing Health. Gruman’s had cancer four times, so has ample personal expertise on the…
Preventive Aging
Does old age necessarily mean declining health and cognition or can one age gracefully with a high quality of life? This was another topic discussed at the recent Health and…
Testing Without Theory
From time to time I run across a finding in the medical literature along the lines of “Coffee Causes Bladder Cancer.” Or was it “Coffee Prevents Bladder Cancer”? Oops, maybe…
Chilly Climates Ideal for Data Center Locations
Lulea, SwedenA recent article in the NYTimes.com reports on the draw of chilly nordic countries and their ideal climate for data centers – Facebook is building its first international data…
