Unnecessary Colonoscopies: Confessions of a Gastroenterologist
We gastroenterologists are regularly summoned to bring light into dark places. We are the enlightened ones who illuminate anatomical shadows. Sure, we have ‘tunnel vision’, but we like to believe…
5 More Must-Know Emerging Health Technology Trends for Healthcare Innovators
Originally published on MedCityNews.com. Once the healthcare innovator’s guide to must-know tech terms for the next decade of medicine hit on Monday, the feedback started coming in. It’s continued to trickle…
Can Violent Sports Survive the Impact of Concussions?
As studies and accompanying news coverage about the long-term dangers of head trauma have emerged over the past few years I’ve been thinking about what American sports will look like…
Hexoskin: A Second Skin for the Quantified Athlete and Maybe Even You!
(Editor's Note: John Nosta writes for Forbes under the heading, "Health Critical") (Editor's Note: John Nosta writes for Forbes under the heading, "Health Critical")The advances of digital health have resulted…
Innovations and Cooperation for World Water Week
A woman in Darfur collects water in a jerrycan, which she will then transport a long distance to her shelter. Her family’s water consumption is limited to 80 liters per…
AskBlue Tries to Explain Health Insurance and Obamacare
Polls show that few people understand health insurance or the Affordable Care Act. That’s especially so for those who have the most to gain from Obamacare: people who are uninsured…
The Obesity-Cancer Connection
Lots of publications have been pointing out that obesity is somehow connected to cancer. Obese women are more prone to breast cancer than their normal-weight counterparts. Obese people have higher…
Health Disparities Still Problematic
A new policy brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds that health care inequities are still a serious problem for many Americans, depending upon their race, gender, income, location and other social…
Analysis of Spending in U.S., Canada on Health IT Vendors in 2014
Originally published on MedCityNews.com. Compliance with regulations, an uptick in electronic healthcare data and consolidation of back-office systems will drive payers and providers in North America to spend an estimated $35…
HIPAA Challenges
Oh, for the day when medical records were on paper. In the blink of an eye, now millions of electronic medical records can be ‘carried off’ to anywhere. This has…
