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…
The Benefits of Having an E-newsletter for Your Hospital
An electronic newsletter or e-newsletter is a beneficial way to stay in touch with your target audience: past patients and potential patients. There are many reasons to have an e-newsletter…
Worries Over Expanding Health Coverage May Be Unfounded
Opposition to health reform tends to come from those who are happy with the way things are and worried that change represents nothing more than the risk of losing what…
Remembering When I Last Injected: Timesulin Helps
So things have been pretty darn hectic the last few weeks, mainly for the wrong reasons however at the beginning of this week, I received a small package from the…
Sweet!! The Secret Branding of Sugar Substitutes
Sugar. An essential nutrient? A cause of obesity and disease? A toxin? Call it what you will, sugar plays a huge role in our lives. From 1, 6 fructose di-phosphate…
