HCPs and How They Use Social Media
Today, three out of four healthcare professionals use a smartphone and a growing number use their smartphones for health-related content and job seeking. In fact, the use of social media…
Staying Informed: 4 Details Seniors Need to Know About Obamacare
Seniors are scrambling to figure out what the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, means to them and how it will impact their healthcare costs. Although it's easy to…
Creating Hope for Undiagnosed Patients
Most rare disease patients spend a good portion of their lives coping with a condition that is either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Some of them die of a disease that has…
23andMe Suspends Genetic Testing During Review Process
Strangely similar to the drama played out by Miley Cyrus and Sinéad O’Connor in October, 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, became embroiled…
Hospital Sued After Patient Sees Photos of Herself on Social Media
Here we go again! As I've stated many times before, no pictures in the hospital and no posting them on social networking sites. Here we go again! As I've stated…
Next Big Things in Medical Science Are Tiny
Medical treatments are based on the general population and success treating people with similar symptoms. It may be hard to imagine the entire field of medical science oriented to you,…
How Do You Know If You Are Ready for ICD-10?
Will The Transition to ICD-10 Become Your Waterloo or Battle of Normandy? Will The Transition to ICD-10 Become Your Waterloo or Battle of Normandy?The path towards our country’s new healthcare…
Yellow Fever Outbreak In Sudan Confirmed By WHO, Including 14 Deaths; Vaccination Campaign To Continue
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed a yellow fever outbreak in South Sudan, which has resulted in 14 deaths so far. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed a yellow fever outbreak in…
Stop Blaming the Patient and Fix the Real Problem – Poor Physician-Patient Communications
Yet another in a seemingly endless series of articles blaming patients for all that’s wrong in health care is running in Modern Healthcare. The 3-part series entitled Channeling Choice looks…
RSNA 2013: What Did We Learn?
There has always been so much information to digest at RSNA that it becomes difficult to pick out some of the key learnings and trends we experience every year. With the…
