Imagine a World Where mHealth, Telemedicine and EMRs Integrated Seamlessly
With the close of the American Telemedicine Association’s 2012 Conference and Exposition this week, I have seen a number of articles regarding the confluence of tele and mobile health…
Doctor/Patient Relationship: Too Much Information, Too Little Communication
One of the biggest problems with health care today is that there is way too much information and way too little communication going on between providers and patients.Here’s a great…
Why Does Fraud Happen?
Bernie Madoff; looks like anybody's grandfather. Bernie Madoff; looks like anybody's grandfather. Is Bernie Madoff inherently evil? Certainly his victims think so. But a more interesting question is what went through his…
Medicare Fraud/Abuse: Don’t Do It
Many of our readers are not health professionals, and they are observers of our (their) wounded health system. The following stories such as these point out how sociopaths impact the…
Colbert Takes on “Debt Panels” AKA Accretive Health
Watch this video to the end to see Colbert hilariously skewer Accretive Health, the “hospital debt collection” company under fire for its Revenue Cycle Management practices Watch this video to…
Press Coverage of Health Data: Just Like Pharma’s DTC?
I am warning you now: This is going to be a rant.Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a front page story on observational data, and how researchers are growing more concerned…
Big Data: What It Means for Science, Healthcare and Social Media
It is just what it sounds like – an immense amount of data. From social networks to genomics to medical records, big data is everywhere and rapidly growing. Technology must…
The Developing World Uses Social Media to Promote Safe Sex
by Christopher Purdy, Executive Vice President While a surprisingly rekindled debate over contraception and women’s rights in the USA finds us facing questions we thought had been well put to bed twenty-five…
15 iPhone Apps Redefining College Drinking
by Staff Writers at Best Colleges OnlineFirst posted on Best Colleges Online on 5/1/2012 by Staff Writers at Best Colleges OnlineFirst posted on Best Colleges Online on 5/1/2012When someone figures…
Major Medicare Fraud Bust Just the Latest Lesson in Problematic Healthcare Spending
Medicare (and Medicaid) fraud seems to be not only occurring with ubiquity, but also appears as a persistent scourge on government spending. It is also the elephant in the room in…
