When Culture Trumps Knowledge: Breaking Habits Takes More than New Research
Even as medical research unearths new disease indicators, mind-body connections, and life-saving interventions for all manner of ailments, it is also unearthing a striking capacity for culturally-rooted cognitive dissonance. Even…
Telemedicine’s Impact on Value-based Care
Telemedicine arrangements that generate revenue, not just cost savings while improving patient care and satisfaction Telemedicine arrangements that generate revenue, not just cost savings while improving patient care and satisfactionValue-based Care and…
Tips for Dealing with Difficult Patients
In an ideal world, your patients would all be polite and pleasant. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. If you work in healthcare, it’s inevitable you will have to deal…
Optimizing Your Hospital’s Online Presence: Structure Your Website in Accordance with SEO Best Practices
A hospital’s website is its anchor in the digital landscape; provided it’s built well, it firmly secures the attention of both your audience and search engines. A hospital’s website is its…
2016: The Year of Mobile Health
The year of mobile - we’ve heard this phrase proclaimed every January for the past couple of years, followed by dizzying amounts of variations and extensions such as the year…
EMR, EHR, PACS & VNA: Looking Beyond the Acronyms
By Dario Arfelli By Dario ArfelliThese Letters Have a Lot to Say about the Past, Present and Future of HealthITSometimes talking about health information technologies can feel like trying to read alphabet…
Why do we need a new operating system for effective shared care plans?
By Robert Rowley, MDThe way we pay for healthcare is changing. The transition from fee-for-service (“fee for volume”) to value-based care is beginning to take shape, and will do so…
The 7 Best Podcasts for Medical Marketers
When you’re short on time, the best advice comes on-the-go. Here’s our list of seven essential podcasts that deal with medical marketing in the digital age. Even the greatest marketers sometimes…
Can Medical PDAs Revolutionize Battlefield Healthcare?
War has a long history of bringing medical advancements and innovation. New techniques and technologies are developed out of necessity and sometimes desperation. The battlefield provides the ultimate test for…
Protecting Human Subjects in Medical Research
There was a tragedy in France recently that did not involve offensive cartoons, radicalized jihadists or terrorists masquerading as refugees. Innocent French citizens were taken down by a profession whose…
