Telemonitoring: Why Wait?
Electronic Health Records (EHRs), care coördination and telemonitoring help to lower the rate of hospitalizations for diabetic patients. These technologies combined can lower the rate of hospitalizations by 26% within…
Using Multi-Media Resources to Build Long-Lasting Relationships with Patients
In the world of medical marketing, hospitals are unique. Doctors are more likely to establish long-term relationships with patients than hospitals, since most patients only seek care at a hospital…
Do We Need New Vital Signs for Health?
The standard definition for vital signs is, “measures of various physiological statistics, often taken by health professionals, in order to assess the most basic body functions”. Another definition says vital…
Guidelines for Using Wi-Fi for Medical Devices
On a recent LinkedIn group discussion, the following question was posed by Taimoore (Tim) Rajah of the NIH: On a recent LinkedIn group discussion, the following question was posed by…
How Performance Programs Will Transform Healthcare
The three main catalysts in healthcare transformation are technology, science and reimbursement. A leader in healthcare technology, Dr. The three main catalysts in healthcare transformation are technology, science and reimbursement.…
ACA: The Meaning of Success
How should we define the success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? In recent months, news reports focused on the number of new enrollees as a key test of the…
Syphilis Infections Increased by 11%, Solely Among Men, in 2012
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its annual report, Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2012 (the most recent year for which data is av The Centers for Disease Control…
3 Healthcare Users Who Get Pinterest Right – And What They Can Teach You
It has been quite some time since I first wrote about the ways in which healthcare can leverage Pinterest, the content sharing service that allows members to "pin" images and…
Factors Related to Adherence [INFOGRAPHIC]
Just as no two patients are identical, the factors that affect adherence vary dramatically from patient to patient, and also importantly what type of treatment plan they are adhering to.…
Q and A: Addressing an Enormous Public Health Problem with a Simple Technology Solution
Inadequate handwashing is a pervasive public health problem, contributing to hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), which cost American society in the tens of billions of dollars and cause at least 100,000 deaths…
