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BioPharma Beat: Wearables for Health – A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep
I'm reporting from the third day of CES 2015 in Las Vegas. I have walked nine to eleven miles each day – with each of my two sensors reporting completely…
Congenital Hearing Deformities at the Brink of a Breakthrough
3D printing and 3D bioprinting in the field of medicine has done groundbreaking work, and a new team of scientists is close to the start of an exclusive trial that…
Doctors and Their Patients: Commitments to Caring
Root of the ProblemHumilityContrasts can be startling. The contrasts in physicians’ commitment to patients in our money-soaked system can be particularly stark. Even to those of us inured to unfairness,…
Leveraging Beacons to Improve Patient Experience
Have you ever walked into a busy healthcare facility and not know where to go or what to do? This inconvenience may be a thing of the past with the…
Top 7 Reasons a Busy Doctor Needs a Powerful Website
I recently bumped into a specialty practice that did not have a website. The Internet has become such a significant “front door” for healthcare providers and hospitals that having no…
California Law Prevents Price-Gouging of the Uninsured
Hospital bills add up fast Hospital bills add up fastMedical bills are a major source of personal bankruptcy in the US. One reason is that hospitals typically bill uninsured patients wildly inflated…
Service Fanatics: Required Reading for Superior Patient Experience
Editor’s Note: In our continuing series of leadership interviews, Stewart Gandolf, CEO of Healthcare Success talks with Dr. James Merlino who recently assumed a position with Press Ganey as president…
2015 Health IT Predictions and Reflections
Kate Ackerman at iHealthBeat asked me to participate in her annual piece on Health IT past and future,
Aging Gracefully, Part 2: Slowing the Aging Process
Can we slow the aging process? The answer is a definite yes and it all has to do with our lifestyles and behaviors. Here is a quiz. What percent of Americans can…
Healthcare and Health IT in 2015: Seeking Simplicity
Happy New Year to my HealthBlog readers around the world. I’m back in the saddle after a 3-week hiatus for the holidays. Happy New Year to my HealthBlog readers around…
