Patient-Centered Physicians Have Lower Diagnostic Testing Costs
For many physicians, the term “patient-centered” conjures up fears of longer office visits and patients demanding expensive diagnostic tests and procedures they don’t need. For many physicians, the term “patient-centered”…
Breaking Language Barriers in Healthcare Using Digital Technology
The non-English speaking patient population in the U.S. accounts for an estimated 30 million people. Navigating our health system is challenging enough for native speakers, but what about for those…
Breaking News: Healthcare Advertising Changing for the Better
You don’t often see the topic of healthcare marketing covered by the popular media, so this Orlando Sentinel article about hospital advertising caught my attention. Basically, the premise of the piece…
Frustrations Among Primary Care Physicians Should Be a Wakeup Call
Primary care physicians (PCPs) are incredibly frustrated. This level of frustration should be a wakeup call. The greatest frustration is “Time, time, time”- or more precisely, a lack of time.…
Q&A Part Two: Technology & Healthcare Efficiency—Not Always the Perfect Match
David Lee Scher, M.D., is a cardiac electrophysiologist and a pioneer in remote patient monitoring, adopting such devices to his medical practice more than 13 years ago. David Lee Scher,…
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…
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…
