Sharing Is Caring: Pediatric Hospitals Work Together for Innovation, Commercialization
First published on MedCityNews.com. Children’s hospital leaders in Ohio recently brought to light an “unlimited supply” of unsolved problems in pediatrics that certainly isn’t going to solve itself. First published on…
Addressing Non-Clinical Care Factors in Health Outcomes
The population health model developed by the University of Wisconsin for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asserts that clinical care contributes to only 20% to overall health outcomes. The population…
3 Major Challenges Facing Home Care Today
Today in the United States, over 12 million individuals receive home care services, accounting for a startling $72.2 billion in health care expenditures. Today in the United States, over 12…
SIDS Linked to Brainstem Abnormalities
"The baby looks normal during the day; there's nothing that would tell you that baby is going to die of SIDS that night." With these words recorded in a
Talking Sense About the Physician Workforce
The November Health Affairs theme issue, Redesigning the Health Care Workforce, is especially good. Much of what I’ve seen written elsewhere on the topic focuses on alleviating a (purported) looming…
Harvard Students Design ChemoPatch for Cancer Treatments Outside the Hospital
First published on MedCityNews.com. If cancer treatment were cheaper and easier to administer, it would be more accessible to early-stage cancer patients across the world. That’s the reasoning behind a disposable,…
New Blood Cholesterol Guidelines
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have released the first update in almost ten years to guide treatment of blood cholesterol to prevent atherosclerotic…
Tattering the Safety Net
Here is irony: the people who talk the most about the need for a social safety net (including the president himself!) are cheerleaders for a health reform that is going…
Patient Context Workflow
This blog post is intended as a high level review of the issues surrounding the creation and management of patient context for data acquired from medical devices. This post is…
Vegetable Oils Claiming to Lower Cholesterol May Actually Increase Heart Disease Risk
Nutritionists say the polyunsaturated fats known as omega-3 and omega-6 are essential to human health. Nutritionists say the polyunsaturated fats known as omega-3 and omega-6 are essential to human health.…
