Has the iPad Replaced the Stethoscope?
'Thirty years ago, we depended on 2,000-page texts such as Robbins Basic Pathology and Gray’s Anatomy. We lugged these around and juggled them as we did our anatomical dissections.'…
Tablets in Healthcare
The July/August issue of Government Health IT had an article about tablets making their way into healthcare workplaces and it suggests that we respond by harnessing these assets - cautiously. The…
Social Network for Patients, Doctors and Caregivers
This is different in the fact that a social network is going through a “clinical trial” to see if the extended care and offerings helps reduce re-admission to the hospital. …
Spine Surgery Largely Unfazed by Recent Market Challenges
Few medical device markets have demonstrated the kind of staying power — prices, procedure growth, market growth — shown by spine surgical technologies. The swelling caseload of new patients, the…
CMS Depression Screening
A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposal would screen more Medicare beneficiaries for depression, according to a recent memo. A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)…
Strange Coincidence: When Cancer Strikes Hospital CEO
I am just back from the Phoenix-metro area. It’s now the 5th largest in the United States and despite home foreclosures, there is still a feeling of growth in many…
A High Price for Rare Cancer Drugs
Pfizer last week won Food and Drug Administration “accelerated approval” for Xalkori (crizotinib) for a rare form of metastatic lung cancer that strikes about 3 percent of people — almost…
Childhood Obesity: It’s Everyone’s Business
The National Business Group on Heatlh has released a new toolkit, Childhood Obesity: It's Everyone's Business. It was prepared in response to employer interest in today's realities: The National Business Group on…
UnitedHealth, YMCA Expand Diabetes Prevention Program with P4P for Walgreens
The process uses UnitedHealth claims data and other demographic information to flag people at risk of developing diabetes and invite them to a free, 16-session exercise and nutrition class at…
Windows Phone + Windows7 + Kinect + Surface + Speech Recognition – Wicked Technology and Integration
Wicked is about the best word I could come up with here. When you watch the demonstration of all of these technologies together this is amazing. I have used all…
