Innovations in Telehealth: MATRC Takeaways
EXCLUSIVE POST - The MATRC Summit meeting last week offered numerous examples of innovative developments in the field of mHealth and Telehealth.Mohit Kaushal from the West Wireless Health Institute explained…
Connect Gateway for the Nationwide (NwHIN) Exchange
This is a nice welcome as it will enable more providers, hospitals and so forth to connect and share medical information securely. From a data standpoint this is interesting that…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Apps on Health Storified
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Mobile Health Around the Globe: US – Aneesh Chopra Talks
EXCLUSIVE POST - Dr. Aneesh Chopra was a keynote speaker at the recent MATRC Summit meeting and spoke of the financial crisis in healthcare and the need for a more…
MATRC Telehealth Summit Meeting
The Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center (MATRC) Summit meeting was held at the Darden School for Business at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The meeting was organized and chaired by…
How to Deal With Online Patient Complaints
The internet has become the primary source of medical information for patients and it’s high time doctors acknowledged this. It’s available 24/7, and provides lots of information on all possible…
Four Drugs – Each Creating A Tough Dilemma
For a parent of a child with cystic fibrosis, a new drug that could eradicate symptoms could be a God send. The same could be said of a parent of…
Health Insurance Exchange Regulations and the Health Reform Challenge
The federal The federal Health Insurance Exchange regulations were released in final form last week. (See Timothy Jost's précis on the Health Affairs blog and HHS presser.) I had the opportunity to hear…
End of Life Care: The Feeding Tube Frenzy
Okay, readers, how many of you desire to have a feeding tube inserted into your belly one day? Some of you? A few of you? All of you? Not me,…
ACOs Gaining Ground in Illinois
ACO is the hottest three-letter word in health careAccountable care organizations take up only seven pages of the massive new health law yet have become one of the most…
