Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter is Keynote for #HIMSS12
EXCLUSIVE POST - HIMSS made the unusual move of inviting Biz Stone, cofounder of Twitter, to be the keynote for the largest health IT conference of the year. Kicking off…
Stage 2 Meaningful Use NPRM Now Available
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Stage 2 meaningful use was posted to the Office of the Federal Register today. The proposed rule outlines the next stage…
House Dems Attempt to Address Contraception Issue on Their Terms
Posted in CorporateHealthcare Policy & The MediaKnowledge & MedicinePolitics & The Law Posted in CorporateHealthcare Policy & The MediaKnowledge & MedicinePolitics & The LawIn response to the widely criticized all…
Searching Online for Health Information
Many Physicians nowadays are relying on Google to help them find information sources which help them diagnose or treat their most difficult cases. It's no surprise then that a large…
Physician Burnout Presents Differently in Male and Female Doctors
Physician Burnout – Gender Differences in Burnout Symptoms. Numerous studies have shown that an average of 1 in 3 practicing physicians are suffering from symptomatic physician Burnout on any…
Personalized Prevention, Part I
For a few years now, I’ve been thinking about the potential intersections of genetics/genomics/proteomics and connected health. In fact, my colleague Kamal Jethwani and my daughter Julie coauthored a piece…
Target Knows You’re Pregnant, Even if No One Else Knows
As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score. More…
HIMSS 12: Presenters Urge It’s Not About Technology, But Connecting People
Intel’s executive breakfast session on the opening morning of HIMSS ’12—where 200 brave and surprisingly sober souls arrived for a refreshing 6:30 a.m. start—was a great use of time. This…
Myths About Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Age Wave, a research and consulting company focused on the lives and needs of the age 50+ population, launched a new study sponsored by Vi an operator of ten continuing…
Federal Dollars Set to Loan Funds for Health Plan Startups in States Ahead of Reform
Posted in CMSCorporateHealthcare Policy & The Media Posted in CMSCorporateHealthcare Policy & The MediaThe federal government has given opponents of the ACA another reason to gripe: it has announced the…
