Your Gums and Your Heart -What’s the Connection?
An ounce of prevention An ounce of prevention Amazingly, there is an intimate connection! Studies have shown that periodontal disease increases your risk of coronary heart disease by 50%, fatal coronary…
“Import-O-Matic” Revolutionizes Image Viewing at UAB
By Franklin Tessler, MD, and Lance HamffImagine having to learn a new word processing application for every document that you write. This is similar to the issue that we in…
EmpreenderSaúde and Startup Saúde Brasil: Helping Healthcare Entrepreneurs to Change the World
I am a Medical student at the last year of Medicine at Federal University of São Paulo. I always liked management. I started with Peter Drucker and Jack Welch´s books…
The Enormous Power Social Media Can Bring to a Hospital
More medical directors and doctors are saying hospitals must turn to social media – not just to help market and advertise their services, but to help further research on rare…
Big Data Part II Social Media
This article is a compilation of several sources, referenced at the end.750 million users of Facebook, 100 million users of Google plus and an additional users of Twitter, Myspace…
Infographic:Digital Healthcare Where Are We Now?
Infographic created by Iron Mountain that highlights the time consuming and expensive task of converting paper records to EMRs that is not addressed by Meaningful Use.CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE VIEW…
Genomics – a Revolution in Medicine – Part 2
In the previous post I discussed the field of pharmacogenomics. Today I will focus on Disease classificationDisease prognosticationEarly and rapid diagnosisPrediction of diseases to develop later in life In the…
Listen Here! Should We Bribe People to be Healthy? The Philosophical Argument – a Brilliant Debate
If you listen to anything today, make it this: I have listened to this 3 times already - it's brilliant. Eminent Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel and his audience get…
Liking, Following, Linking, Tagging, Stumbling: Social Media is Changing the Nature of Health-Related Interactions
Earlier this year I was invited by the eHealth Initiative to participate in a focus group for PwC Health Research Institute's newly released report entitled, “Social media likes healthcare: From marketing…
5 Ways to Leverage SSO (Single Sign On) Technology to Drive Meaningful Use
Last year, the Ponemon Institute, a research firm that advises organizations on data security and privacy, released a report revealing that each hospital loses an average $2 million a…
