Infographic:Social Media in Healthcare
Social media is becoming increasingly more prevalent within the healthcare industry. With more hospitals and doctors joining social-media platforms on a consistent basis, it begs the question of “helpful or…
Why Our HealthCare Spending Doesn’t Make Sense
You know that joke about the drunk crawling around under a street light? A cop comes up to him and asks what he is doing. The drunk explains that he…
Can Digitally Driven Kiosks Help Patients Find Medications?
If you have heard or read the news of late it has been all over that the FDA is considering making certain drugs available over the counter that are now…
Pay For Performance and HCAHPS
"There's nothing better at incenting than money." Setting aside for a moment the mangling of the English language in this quote (see the full article on HCAHPS and P4P), we…
Does GOP actually want Obama to decrease health care costs?
USA Today reports on a Republican National Committee advertisement that lambastes President Obama for not cutting health care costs. Considering that nobody’s really managed to do that over the last…
The California Health Benefit Insurance Exchange
California is a leading state in formation of Health Benefit Exchanges. The Health Reform Law as specified in the Patient Care and Affordability Act two years ago mandates the…
Big Tobacco is Still Targeting Our Kids
Despite the demise of Joe Camel, Big Tobacco is still targeting our kids. That is because, to use Philip Morris’ own words, “Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s potential regular customer.” …
Rite Aid Stores Hosts RV Tour For a Free Skin Cancer Screen
This is pretty cool as a big RV comes around and had 2 private exam rooms so each person has privacy while being screened. All locations in each state have…
Health Tablets in the Waiting Room Revolutionizing Telemedicine
Just as smartphones and iPads have ushered in a paradigm shift in personal technology, so are electronic medical records (EMRs) quickly replacing paper in the doctor’s office. Just as smartphones…
