The Benefits Tumblr Can Have for a Hospital
Does your healthcare facility have a lot of “red tape” to go through when it comes to marketing? Is it hard to get approval on marketing initiatives, especially on your…
MedStar SiTEL Achieves Accreditation by SSH
In direct opposition to last week’s tongue in cheek poke at Medical Simulation of In direct opposition to last week’s tongue in cheek poke at Medical Simulation of Olde, according…
Obamacare and Murphy’s Law: Did It All Go Wrong?
Pundits began outlining the downfall of Obamacare as soon as the President was elected in 2008. Now that many programs have come to fruition, many folks who originally voiced concerns are…
How Smartphone Apps Are Expanding the Role of EMRs
Smartphones have become a ubiquitous part of most people's lives, and finally seem poised to make the jump into serious medicine. In the past few years, personal health and fitness…
The Persistence of Demand for Cosmetic Procedures
The recession pinch on out-of-pocket surgery, most prevalent of which is cosmetic surgery, was a momentary pause in a market with persistent demand. The global market for cosmetic procedures is growing…
Do You Need a YouTube Channel for Your Medical Practice?
If you think your physician practice doesn’t need its very own YouTube Channel, think again. Physician practices face a highly competitive market in towns and communities across the country. This…
4 New Lessons on Patient Experience from Disney
It’s been 10 years this month since Fred Lee published his book “If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently.” The book offers hospital administrators and…
America’s Aging Eyes
Excerpted from my post at Covering Health, the blog of Association of Health Care Journalists. Sitting in the waiting room of my opthalmologist’s office was an an elderly man,…
#H2NYC Meetup: Health Tech Innovation Meetup in NYC
#H2NYC Meetup - May 12, 2014. Thirteen demos and a whole lot of conversation with the health tech innovation community in NYC Monday evening. I enjoyed dropping in on the…
2013 Medtech Startups: What and Where Are They?
I saw some coverage today regarding the innovation in medtech in 2013, but I was surprised to see that it was limited to coverage of the companies who received PMA…
