The Future of Healthcare: Part II, The Waiting Room of Tomorrow
In Part II of our expert series on the future of healthcare and The Patient, OneMedPlace sits down with Dr. Cynthia Haines to discuss the digitization of the waiting room.…
AED Policy Needs CPR
Amid all of the buzz around Mother’s Day this past weekend, little attention was given to a study that could potentially save thousands of lives. Researchers from the University of…
Pharma: Funding R&D: High Prices, Overuse A Failed Strategy
Much has been written about the travails of the pharmaceutical industry. Generic competition is reducing profitability as leading blockbuster drugs like Pfizer’s Lipitor lose patent protection. Biotech generic competition is…
My Experience Working at a Cancer Clinic
As a fairly social 23 year old, I am constantly meeting new people and engaging in the routine small talk that characterizes such encounters. “What are you going to order?…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Zao mHealth Device Field-Tested in India and Nepal
EXCLUSIVE POST - The Zao (in Greek, Zao means "life") is an all-in-one biomedical device which can be used for mHealth in disaster relief, wireless communication a EXCLUSIVE POST -…
Shyness By Any Other Name
It has been a long time since I visited our friend, the Neuroskeptic, a blogging neuroscientist from across the pond…enjoy…Patby NeuroskepticNeuroskeptic, The United Kingdom It has been a long time…
The HealthCare Problem: Why Can’t We Find a Solution?
EXCLUSIVE POST - Once again, like every four years, as we move closer to yet another Presidential contest, healthcare policy will be the source of more than one vivid debate.…
Informed Consent: The Right to Refuse Medical Treatment
There are some patients we doctors never forget. They linger in our memories for various reasons. Often, it is their serious or unusual medical condition that stays with us. There…
A Letter from Planned Parenthood
Kansas state lawmakers are set to force doctors to lie to women about abortion — and allow doctors to withhold information from pregnant women.If they succeed, these outrageous attacks…
