Studies: Texting Between Providers and Patients Can Improve Health Care
Keeping physicians and staff members connected and improving workflows are noble goals as health care organizations adopt newer communications technologies. But the changes, such as a move to text messaging,…
A Day in the Life of a Wound Care Patient
I am not a wound care patient, but unfortunately during the last few months I have had to witness a parent battle the challenges of two non-healing wounds. One of…
FDA Releases Draft Social Media Guidance 5 Years After Public Hearing
Five years after its most recent public hearing on the subject of social media marketing of drugs and medical devices, the FDA released a draft
Hospital Marketing Lessons from the Mayo Clinic
It's fair to say that the Mayo Clinic knows what it is doing when it comes to hospital marketing. Known world-wide, it is frequently quoted as an authority on many…
New Guidelines Stress Importance of Patient Safety in Telemedicine
Both the Federation of State Medical Boards and the American Medical Association have published guidelines for physicians seeing patients via telemedicine that stress patient safety, but some critics believe they…
What Are Your Health IT Pain Points?
Healthcare technology is changing faster than most organizations can keep up. What are you doing to comply?Healthcare technology is a rapidly changing field. Some of the changes are required to…
pharmaphorum: Patient Opinion Leaders Are the New Healthcare Influencers
While the notion of online influence, with accompanying tools such as Klout, may be a new concept within the digital world, finding those individuals that hold most sway with their…
Initiating a Bundled Payment Project
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Laozi, Founder of TaosimA bundled payment project has great potential to bring positive change to a provider organization.…
Coordinated Care Begins With The Patient
Get to know the patient, their needs; then build a care system around them. Get to know the patient, their needs; then build a care system around them.Since we cannot…
Glucose Monitoring Research Drives More Promises Than Answers
If I had a nickel for every headline like this that ultimately failed, like the technology, to actually achieve the promise, I would be on a tropical beach sipping pina…
