Standards of Decency in the Blogosphere
A few weeks back, I posted a piece entitled Are Emergency Rooms Admitting Too Many Patients? The essay was cross posted on KevinMD’s site a week or so after it appeared…
Biological Growth Factors in Wound Care Drive Big Revenue Growth, Too
Extensive research has demonstrated that wound fluid is rich in growth factors. Growth factors are naturally occurring proteins found primarily in platelets and macrophages. They are needed for normal wound…
Hospice Fraud on the Rise
Medicine is becoming increasingly fragmented. Sure, the discipline of medical care hans’t changed, but the way in which delivery is packaged and sold to healthcare consumers (formerly known as patients)…
The Quest for Healthcare Quality Part II: Patient Perspectives
Defining Healthcare QualityWhen it comes to defining healthcare quality, the opinion of the patients might be the most important of all. They are, after all, the ones on the receiving…
“Orange Is the New Black”: What Prisoners and Patients Have in Common
While binge-watching the second season of “Orange Is the New Black,” I was reminded of an important parallel between patients and prisoners. Both are victims of a “third-party decider economy”…
IT Helps Smooth Transitions of Care
Care transitions often result in additional work for both the patient and the healthcare providers concerned. How can you improve the coordination of care? Care transitions often result in additional…
My Wish List for Apple’s HealthKit Initiative
Apple has been making headlines again, which is not unusual for a company that sets trends and moves markets. A week or so ago they announced that iOS 8 would…
8 Healthcare Provider Pain Points
Summary: What are your healthcare provider pain points? What are you doing to overcome them? What advice can you offer your colleagues? Summary: What are your healthcare provider pain points?…
Enhancing the “Coolness Factor” in Our Later Years
Biomedical advances over the last century have advanced our life spans to degrees that would seem miraculous to a late 19th century observer. But as a 100-year lifespan begins to…
