Beyond the Buzz: Healthcare Social Media
Healthcare social media is more than just a marketing buzzword; as the Internet increasingly becomes the medium of choice for researching health information, social media has become an important channel…
More Nursing Shortage Myth Building
My piece on the nursing shortage myth received more than 100 comments when it was reposted on the Health Care Blog a year ago. My basic theme was as follows:…
Physician Use of mHealth [INFOGRAPHIC]
Have a look at this great infographic about the US physician use of mobile technology. Some striking figures: Have a look at this great infographic about the US physician use…
CVS Kicks the Habit: No More Tobacco Products. What’s Next?
The CVS pharmacy chain announced that it will stop selling tocbacco products effective October. The CVS pharmacy chain announced that it will stop selling tocbacco products effective October.I have often…
A Framework for Collaborative Peer Review
I titled this post "Collaborative Peer Review" because peer review brings out strong feelings. It’s like taking strong medicine. We dislike being asked to do peer-review reports and certainly don’t…
Promising Nursing Careers Beyond the Bedside
Tell people that you are pursuing a nursing degree and most of them will conjure up an image of you, in your scrubs, happily caring for patients at the bedside.…
Six Mobile Health App Design Tips
First published on MedCityNews.com. A great majority of patients with chronic diseases would accept mobile app prescriptions from their physicians, according to a survey of 2,000 patients released last summer. First…
Physician Capacity
A little while ago Scott Gottleib and Zeke Emmanuel co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times pooh-poohing the concern about physician shortages. A little while ago Scott Gottleib and…
If Meaningful Use Disappeared, How Would EHR Vendors Change Their Products?
I’ve often said that Meaningful Use and the HITECH Act created false demand for EHRs and has (perhaps irrevocably) harmed innovation in the EHR space by standardizing features and function…
Preclinical Research: An Important Aspect of Drug Development
Pharmaceutical medicine is "defined as the medical scientific discipline, concerned with the discovery, development, evaluation and registration of medicines. It is also concerned with the monitoring and medical aspects of…
