How to Improve Healthcare: Address Super-Utilizers
Super-Utilizers: “Frequent Flyers” will drive healthcare improvement for all of us.Dr. Jeffrey Brenner is a family doctor in an impoverished area of Camden. The area has one of the highest…
Making a 5% Commitment to Medicaid
Larry Casalino, MD, PhD, a well-known health services researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, has written a Perspective for the November 7, 2013 issue of the New England Journal of…
Humor Matters in Healthcare
Let’s face it, when someone goes into the hospital, it’s a not an easy time. Stress levels aren’t just high for the patient and his family; doctors and nurses deal…
Final Steps in Creating Strategic Partnerships: Contacting and Contracting
This is Part 4 and the last in a series of blog posts on best partnering practices for life sciences and health tech companies. This is Part 4 and the…
Bringing Biometric Tracking to the Masses Isn’t All About Devices
Image credit: All Things DFirst published on MedCityNews.com. With the hardware revolution well underway in health sensing, it’s time for a revolution on the software side of the equation, industry…
7 Useful Tips: How to Engage and Inspire Action and Social Sharing
A curious challenge within the art of hospital and healthcare marketing is that large segments of your target audience simply don’t care. They don’t have an immediate need for your…
Can Stroke Survivors Recover Their Abilities by Controlling Virtual Reality Hands with Their Minds?
More than two-thirds of stroke survivors have some type of disability, and for many, recovering the precise movements and use of their hands is the most difficult of all tasks.…
Schizophrenia About High Deductibles
You may remember that when Health Savings Accounts were introduced there was almost universal outrage among liberals about the horrendous burden cost-sharing places on all but “the healthy and wealthy.”…
Why Rare Disease Caregivers Inspire Me
If you want to know the heights of love, compassion, determination, and self-sacrifice that people can rise to, just sit down and talk to someone who is caring for a…
Economic Stress Linked to Poor Brain Development in Children
The kind of toxic stress that goes along with poverty, especially when experienced early in life, may have long-term consequences for a child's behavior, learning ability, and health. The kind…
