Why Your Healthcare Competition Is Worse Than You Thought
Just when you thought all of the competitive forces around you were done exploding, you just might have missed what’s been happening down the street and around the corner. Just…
Technology-Supported Medical Education via Computer-Augmented Visualization Environments
Some years ago, I closed a lecture on medical education with a slide that posed this questions to the faculty:What Medicine Are You Teaching? Some years ago, I closed a…
Autism and Language Impairment Share a Genetic Link, But Not All with ASD Have Trouble Speaking
In a recent study, researchers discovered a disorder called ‘specific language impairment’— one of the most common developmental delays in children — may be caused by the same genetic variants…
BioPharma Beat: The Promise of Diagnostics and Precision Medicine
The field of diagnostics is one of the most exciting in medicine and health because of its amazing past, present and future contributions. Diagnostic tools help inform physicians about someone’s…
Clinical Trials Software Firm Gets Funding to Help with Health Data Digitization
First published on MedCityNews.com. It might be unthinkable to some, but a good chunk of the provider world is still getting its feet wet with the digitization of health data. First…
Symposium’s Message to Doctors: Engage with Patients
mHealth is all about patient engagement these days, and nowhere was that point driven with more purpose than last week's Connected Health Symposium. mHealth is all about patient engagement these…
The Curious History of Hashtags Plus Six Useful Resources
Social media hashtags have become ubiquitous and a language-art of their own. You know them when you #seethem, but the cryptic, compressed (and sometimes insider) meanings are not always clearly…
Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All
(First published in the Harvard Business Review) (First published in the Harvard Business Review)In August, Dr. Donald M. Berwick presented the report from the independent National Advisory Group on the Safety of…
The Expansive Reach of Digital Health and the Power of a Second Opinion
(John Nosta writes for Forbes.com)When it comes to your health, who can you trust? Who can provide a well-informed decision about life and death issues? (John Nosta writes for Forbes.com)When it…
Are We Missing SMS as a Patient Engagement Opportunity?
It’s almost a cliché that providers need to reach patients where they want to connect, yet there is an existing option being underused.No, it’s not mHealth applications – but it…
