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…
Interview: Seamless Medical’s David Perez Is Giving the Physician Waiting Room a 2.0 Update
David Perez is the founder and CEO of Seamless Medical Systems, a New Mexico-based company that developed cloud-based patient-engagement platforms that integrate electronic medical records (EMRs) and other health data to create…
Reducing Health Care Costs: Let’s Try What Has Worked
Over the weekend, a New York Times article once again highlights the soaring health care costs in the United States. The article reveals that asthma medications that tens of million people…
Takeaways From Stanford Medicine X Conference
I had the great good fortune of being tagged as an ePatient Scholar for the 2013 edition of Stanford Medicine X. That allowed me to sit at the feet -…
Herbal Supplements May Contain Toxic Contaminants, Unlisted Ingredients Dangerous to People with Allergies
Thought the vitamins and herbal supplements you purchased to protect your
