Understanding Cancer: It’s Getting More Complicated
A diagnosis of cancer is the last thing anyone wants to hear. It can be a struggle to understand what you’re dealing with and sometimes it can seem like you…
Crossing the Chasm with Connectivity
Creating and launching innovative ground-breaking new technologies and solutions is a heady experience, especially in health care where innovations can literally save lives. Pioneering new technology is hard and very…
#ObamaCare and You: Uwe Reinhardt Discusses HealthCare Economics
(Editor's Note: The following is the third in a series of four exclusive HealthWorks Collective interviews on Health Policy by our Washington DC reporter, Steven Goldstein) (Editor's Note: The following is the…
Aetna CEO Imagines Near Future When Health Insurers Aren’t Middlemen
First published on MedCityNews.com.Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini has been just as much of a healthcare consumer as he has been a healthcare executive. First published on MedCityNews.com.Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini…
Wireless Health Hub Helps mHealth Entrepreneurs [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
SoCal Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Development (EED) is a newly established non-profit that focuses on early stage company development. EED has just introduced a Wireless Health Hub to help support entrepreneurs developing…
#HCSM Review Edition 39 Request for Submissions
HealthWorks Collective is hosting Edition #39 of the blog carnival HealthCare Social Media Review and kindly requests your submissions! HealthWorks Collective is hosting Edition #39 of the blog carnival HealthCare…
A Ludicrous Colonoscopy Rule and the ACA
“An ounce of prevention” we all know is good medicine. An example is the colonoscopy. It was time for mine so after some lengthy procrastination I called and set…
What Keeps Top Healthcare CEOs Up at Night?
First published on MedCityNews.com. The reason that innovation in healthcare has lagged behind innovation in other industries certainly isn’t because of a shortage of ideas. That was the message from a panel…
Dual Eligibles in the U.S.: Statistics and Facts
There’s a peculiar fact concerning health care in the United States today: one specific group of patients makes up a disproportionate amount of federal and state health care spending. There’s…
Touch-Sensitive Artificial Limbs on the Horizon For Amputees: A New Age of “Smart” Prosthetics?
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago are working toward creating touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs that could someday convey sensory information to an amputee’s brain. A team of scientists…
