Government Using Social Media to Track Health Behaviors
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest biomedical library is now collecting information from social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook with the hope of using that…
PTSD Accelerates Weight Gain, Increases Obesity Risk In Women
Emotional eating has been linked to feelings of depression, pain, and anxiety... Could it also be triggered by PTSD? A new study suggests it might, as the results indicate women…
Will Work for Dental Care: Not a Bad Idea
There’s a big gap in coverage for dental care. It’s not considered part of core health care benefits and so many people – even those with commercial health insurance or…
Making Heath Addictive: Make It Personal
This is the third in a series of posts about a concept I’m really excited about: Making Health Addictive. This is the third in a series of posts about a…
Engage Your Patients and Members Where They Are – Not Where You Wish They Were
Not long ago, Lloyd Dean, president and CEO of the San Francisco-based health care-system Dignity Health announced the Dignity Health and Box Patient Education App Challenge. In the course of…
Installing an MU-Certified EHR Doesn’t Mean Saying Good-Bye to Paper
As I travel and speak with physician practices and hospital execs about health IT, I often hear questions about how practices can become paperless as they transition from manual to…
Experimental Cholesterol Drug Cuts LDL Levels in Half After 1 Year
Results from Amgen’s year-long safety and efficacy study showed monthly treatment with its experimental cholesterol drug reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL or “bad”) cholesterol by 52 percent while causing no serious…
Quantifying Quality in Healthcare
As a supporter of efforts to promote health and wellness by preventing and better managing chronic diseases, and accordingly, policy efforts to align financial incentives, the Partnership to Fight Chronic…
Threatened by Domestic Violence? There’s an App for That
If you have followed the recent stories about George Zimmerman, the guy who killed Trayvon Marten, you know that he was just released from jail, on bail, after being accused…
RSNA 2013: Mobile Connect—Image Viewers and Patient Access for Radiology
The patient has been an important focus in radiology throughout 2013. Dose efficiency, smart imaging, quality care, patient engagement and patient access have been hot topics and it has been…
