VESAG Emergency Health Watch
VESAG unveiled its new product ‘VESAG Emergency Health Watch’ during the 1st International CME, workshop and conference on “COST EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE” at All India…
Colonic Hydrotherapy and Colon Cleansing
A few times each month, a patient asks me for my opinion on colonics. They ask me because I am a gastroenterologist, and I am supposed to know this stuff.…
12 Ways to Health Holiday Song
The CDC's 12 Way to Health song is great for any holiday gathering! Play the song, set to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas, during school or office parties.…
Regulation of Wound Management Products
The passage below is from the MedMarket Diligence Report #S247, “Worldwide Wound Management, 2008-2017: Established and Emerging Products, Technologies and Markets in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Rest of World.” The…
Mobile Health Technology: Results of HIMSS Survey on Usage
Having just celebrated the world’s sixth billionth connection, mobile health (mHealth) is poised to make a grand splash in the public health arena. The term mHealth was coined by Professor…
Quality Improvement Using Patient Self-Management: Video Debate
Earlier this year, when I traveled to Denmark to review some of their Health IT companies, I spent a couple of days with Joe Ternullo of Partners Healthcare and…
What Really Needs To Be Done About the Critical Shortages of Cancer Drugs
The following is an Op Ed written by myself and colleague Dr Curt Civin and published December 7, 2011 in the Baltimore Sun. The following is an Op Ed written…
Microsoft GE Healthcare Joint Venture – A Sign of Weakness or Strength?
Microsoft and GE Healthcare announced a joint venture yesterday (as-yet unnamed), trumpeted as bringing together the best of both companies' offerings in the health care provider market. Microsoft and GE Healthcare…
Let a Thousand Free Markets Bloom
The Center for Health Market Innovations has identified more than 1,000 (mainly private sector) programs in 108 lower and middle income countries. They include: The Center for Health Market Innovations…
IPAD Benefits Dementia Patients
So Easy A Senior Can Do It Getty ImagesOne Florida nursing home has found that use of Apple's iPad 2 rejuvenates memory, motor and social skills of the facility's dementia…
