5 Big Data Questions with Ryan Brush, Distinguished Engineer at Cerner
Big data, data analytics, and population health management are hot topics in health IT. Actually, big data and data analytics are buzz words in every industry, but population health management…
6 Forces Pushing Healthcare Outside Hospital Walls
While hospital success is primarily based on what happens within their four walls, their future depends on patients not in the hospital. There are several new reimbursement models that have…
Keeping an Eye Out for Medical Fraud
The federal government is losing billions of dollars each year because of Medicare fraud, reports Forbes magazine. Ultimately this costs the taxpayers. The federal government is losing billions of dollars…
How EHRs Can Help You to Save Time, Cost and More
Electronic Health Records is a term which is being chanted more often than ever in the United States. Through the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act,…
Researchers Seek Link Between Your Health and Your Surname
What’s in a name? For those who believe in nominative determinism, which suggests that people feel compelled to enter a particular profession based on their surname, well, your very future…
Using Web Technology for Patient Referrals
According to Pew Internet & American Life Project Study, 72 percent of Internet users have gone online in the past year specifically for health-related information. With the potential of that…
Google Helpouts: Live Video Competition or Marketing Opportunity?
Google Helpouts: Live Video Competition or Marketing Opportunity?If “Helpouts” was just another Silicone Valley infant—with high hopes and little funding—it might not survive long enough to write about. Google Helpouts:…
Bioethics Commission Calls for More Communication, Proactivity When Dealing with Incidental Findings
First published on MedCityNews.com. First published on MedCityNews.com.The hullabaloo around 23andMe brought to light one unresolved issue for direct-to-consumer testing companies, and now a federal advisory panel is bringing to…
Will Virtual Consults Solve the Provider Shortage?
I’ve attended several health conferences over the past couple of months and whether the conversations are about the Affordable Care Act allowing more people to get preventive care, using more…
True Value Telehealth
Eyeforpharma recently published a report called “True Value Telehealth” that gives good insights into the current and future market of telehealth and telecare. I made a summary of the most…
