How Can Big Data Leverage Healthcare Industry
Healthcare stakeholders now have access to promising new areas of knowledge. This information is in the form of “Big data”, so called not by its sheer magnitude but for its…
5 Tips for Taking Hormones During Gender Transition
Approximately one out of 300 people in this country are transgender. The challenges and tribulations they face have drawn much more attention in recent years. The number of gender…
Healthcare CIOs to-do list in 2018
Enterprise Data Analytics Platform According to a survey 40 percent of Hospital CIOs are planning to launch enterprise data analytics platforms in 2018. They continue to face challenges while…
Will Killing the Individual Mandate Derail Healthcare Reform?
Over the past week, President Donald Trump signed the new tax reform bill. While the bill primarily focused on changing tax rates and putting deductions, it had some overlap…
When Patients Leave: Why They Fire the Doctor
Most doctors are well respected, even beloved, by the vast majority of patients. In the broad spectrum of patient-provider relationships, physicians have a positive head start. As the widely held…
Healthcare Innovations Keep Seniors Safer at Home
There are few things more gut wrenching than having to leave a loved one alone while they struggle with health challenges. Life doesn?t come with a pause button. If…
Healthcare Technology is Improving the Way We Sleep
The amount of information that?s been digitized in our electronic medical records (EMRs) is staggering. While your initial reaction might be to worry about Big Brother invading your privacy, there…
Degenerative Disc Disease: Comparing Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement to Spinal Fusion
With the increasing prevalence of degenerative disc disease (DDD) and chronic back pain patients seeking minimally invasive medical procedures, the artificial disc replacement (ADR) market is expected to grow exponentially.…
Why Health Care Needs To Be a Big Part of Your Retirement Planning
In case you haven?t noticed, health care is expensive. According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, U.S. health care costs rose anywhere from 4.2% to 6.6% between 1991…
How Healthcare Data Analytics Can Influence Patient Care
For most of human history, the world of medicine has been based on trial and error. This is still the case in some situations; however, more and more healthcare…
