3 Ways that Crowdfunding Can Benefit the Healthcare Market
In 1997, American fans of the British rock group Marillon rallied together to raise money for the band to tour the United States. Without any involvement from Marillon, fans were…
Patient Responsibility – What to do if they Won’t Take Any?
Patient Responsibility out the window in the age of “PRDS”Patient responsibility is something we often took for granted as medical students. We naively believe we are a trusted medical…
PTSD Special Report: Part I, How to Curb a Potential Epidemic
In response to a recent press release from TONIX Pharmaceuticals, a leading company in the exploration of alternative PTSD treatment, we are issuing a 2-part special report looking at recent…
What Food Stamps Can Teach Us about Health Care
There are about 50 million people on Medicaid in the United States and the biggest problem they have, by far, is finding a doctor who will see them. Yet this…
Does the Supreme Court Understand Health Reform?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a lengthy, complex law, which is hardly surprising given the size and scope of the health care economy it addresses. Unfortunately that also…
TEDMED Day #1, Light on Medicine, High on Inspiration
EXCLUSIVE POST - I’m attending TEDMED this week at the Kennedy Center in Washington as the guest of our sponsor, Siemens, and it is my first. These posts aren’t intended…
Digging Deeper to Answer Healthcare’s Great Challenges
About two months ago, I traveled to Las Vegas for the largest meeting in the health IT industry called the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference. I…
TedMed 2012, Day 1
TedMed 2012has begun. And how! The opening event was “ Traces-Urban Acrobats.” Urban Acrobats? It was mouth-droppingly over-the-top athleticism. One long sequence consisted of the members of the…
Crowdfunding for Academic Research: Innovocracy
Innovocracy provides crowd funding for academic research. In this interview, co-founder Mikael Totterman explains the concept and describes the first project: a promising toilet-training method for autistic children.What is Innovocracy?…
Genomics– a Revolution in Medicine – Part I
My last post was about the coming medical megatrends that will have transformative implications for medical practice. To continue the discussion, let’s begin with genomics.Little more than a decade ago,…
