Mobile Health Apps: Pass the Secret Sauce
The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics released a The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics released a report on the ecosystem bloody mess of 40,000+ mobile health apps that are available…
Health IT Thrives with New Startup Companies
As the health insurance exchanges opened for enrollment just days ago, the federal government, including the President and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), had to acknowledge that it was not technologically…
Explaining Long Term Care Insurance Costs to the Non-Believers
Long term care insurance costs are intimidating to many Americans since they represents another expense to pay on top of bills, health insurance, life insurance, taxes, and more. What makes…
Unpublished Clinical Trial Data: Are Scientists Who Fail to Publish Findings Unethical?
ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), houses a database of clinical studies conducted on human volunteers around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S.…
How Patient Experience Will Affect Medical Billing
Medical care providers know all too well that they must collect as much of the fees for their services they can in order to maintain their practice and be able…
PureTech Will Help Type 1 Diabetes Treatments Cross the “Valley of Death”
First published on MedCityNews.com. First published on MedCityNews.com.PureTech Ventures will bring the business smarts while JDRF and other non-profits will bring the scientific knowledge to a new fund that’s hoping to…
Medicare Cuts: Hospitals Don’t Make It Up on Volume
The Affordable Care Act purports to reduce the deficit, yet critics expect (or at least claim to expect) that it will actually be a budget buster. A Health Affairs article…
Can We Squeeze the Waste Out of the High Cost of Trauma Care?
Treating injuries is a $163 billion problem in the US. Leaving aside the enormous and largely neglected opportunity to reduce costs by avoiding injuries in the first place (e.g., injury…
Connectivity Workflows
One of the biggest challenges for medical device makers developing connectivity solutions is to look beyond the connection itself and design an overall solution that provides good workflow. Medical device…
New Ways to Engage with Patients
Are you committed to improving your hospital’s communication while delivering the best healthcare possible? With consumers taking a more proactive approach to health, you need a more proactive approach to…
