Consumers Are Being Asked to Make a Dent in the Healthcare Universe: Here’s Why We All Need to Help
All of us are well aware that healthcare is rapidly changing. We’re entering an era where consumers will truly be at the center of how health is delivered in the…
Research and Development in Pharma: 4 Lessons in Change
This is the eleventh blog post in a twelve part series that transforms ideas from the marketing world at large into practical plans for pharmaceutical marketing in the time of…
Gene Mutations That Cause Dementia and ALS Successfully Targeted in New Experiments
The idea behind ‘personalized’ medicine is to target the precise mutation in a patient's genes that causes a disease. In a series of new experiments conducted at Johns Hopkins University,…
Cleveland Clinic’s Picks for Top Innovations in 2014
First published at MedCityNews.com. Each year a committee of Cleveland Clinic doctors asks hundreds of their colleagues to weigh in on which emerging healthcare technologies they think will help shape their…
7 Ways Caregivers Can Prevent Readmissions
Today’s health care system is facing a new crisis: how do we care for America’s rapidly growing aging population in the face of increasing costs?The solution lies in part with…
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…
