Increasing Medicare Eligibility Age and the Law of Unintended Consequences
On my way to the annual two-day blowout health law seminar put on by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) on Monday -- I was second in the lineup, speaking about…
Video:Insights from the Industry: The Biggest Challenges HIM Departments are Facing
While at AHIMA 2011, Connie Tohara, director of health information at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, sat down with Nuance Healthcare to discuss some of the biggest challenges…
Fall-Prone Seniors Fail to Adjust Walking Speed
Seniors prone to falling might do so because they fail to adjust their walking speed to their vision impairments.Irish investigators from Trinity College in Dublin divided 17 participants into three…
e-Patients, Quantified Self and Self-Efficacy; Self-Monitoring Through Technology
EXCLUSIVE POST - At the Medicine 2.0 Summit at Stanford in September, there was an interesting juxtaposition of these three concepts. The discussion of self-efficacy came from a presentation from…
How can Mobile Technology Help Healthcare?
An estimated 70% of physicians in the United States have either a smartphone or a tablet PC such as an iPad. They are adopting EHRs and are more techno savvy…
Medical Malpractice Reform Losing Physician Support
With regard to physicians’ support for medical malpractice reform, the times they are a changin'. With regard to physicians’ support for medical malpractice reform, the times they are a changin'.…
Social Media and Participatory Medicine:the ePatient Movement
A key component of cost containment in medicine and healthcare is wellness and compliance with treatments using educational courses, advocacy in groups of specific illness and support organizations to…
The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here
America's Health Insurance Plans commissioned consulting firm Oliver Wyman to make some predictions about what will happen to health insurance once the Affordable Care Act is implemented. According to the…
What is Meaningful Use?
The purpose of the Healthcare IT incentive program is not static adoption of EHRs. The program has been devised in a manner that incentivizes only the “meaningful use” of your…
How Healthcare Reform Will Change Healthcare Communication Forever
As an agency that works primarily with healthcare clients, I think we can say with some authority, healthcare communications has always been about increasing the bottom line. That's not to…
