Digital Health Summit: Should it be Advancing or Aligning Innovation?
The Digital Health Summit at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show commenced this week, bringing to the forefront a number of new consumer-based health and wellness innovations that sit at the…
5% of Patients Account for Half of Health Care Spending
USA TODAY reports that 22 % of healthcare spending is from less than 1% of patients.(2009). That's about $90,000 per person, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.…
Will Power is Biological
By the end of January, a third will have broken their resolutions, and by July more than half will have lapsed. They’ll fail because they’ll eventually run out of willpower,…
Video: Tips for Overcoming the Gray Areas of Meaningful Use Stage 1 for Safety Net Providers
This webinar provides tips and guidance of how safety net providers, such as health centers, critical access hospitals, and rural health clinics can overcome common gray areas of meeting Meaningful…
The Death Of Disease Management (Finally)
In 1995, Dr. Steven Rosenberg published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that fueled the start of an industry. In a randomized, controlled trial, he showed…
Oxycontin and Heroin Addiction: Business Opportunities in the Push to Address the Problem
Growing up in the suburbs in the 1970s and 80s I knew of teens experimenting with alcohol and marijuana. Cocaine, LSD, PCP and barbiturates were around, too, but pretty rare.…
10 Myths About Outdoor Medicine – Debunked
By Paul Auerbach, M.D. There are many myths related to outdoor medicine. These need to be “debunked,” so that people do not fall prey to outdated and useless techniques. Here…
ACP Ethics Manual on Social Media, Catastrophes, and More
The American College of Physicians has released an update to its Ethics Manual and new or expanded sections include, among others, confidentiality and electronic health records, health system catastrophes, boundaries and…
Key Recent Developments in Diabetes Research
Two noteworthy developments in the study of diabetes came to light today. The first is the progress that has been achieved in the use of stem cells to "re-educate" the…
No Savings from Raising Medicare Age
The Congressional Budget Office released an issue brief Tuesday that suggested lifting Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 67 would save the federal government 5 percent on projected outlays over…
