Mobile Health Around the Globe (Bonus Post!): Six mHealth Companies Bringing Health Technology to Developing Countries
Originally published on MedCityNews.com.Even in regions of the world that lack paved roads and easy transportation to a hospital, or even more basic things like electricity and clean water, the…
Mobile Healthcare Exploding
A few years ago, when you need help to lose weight, you might have driven over to a local diet support group, stepped on a scale and left with a…
What Americans Don’t Know About the Affordable Care Act
We have written several posts about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how it will impact not only the healthcare and insurance sectors, but State and Federal Government, and…
iPad Applications in the Healthcare Industry: Fad or Future?
iPad has revolutionized our lives in a phenomenal way. Be it booking movie tickets, cooking favorite recipes, or learning music, there is an app for virtually every situation imaginable. While…
Patient Experience Debuts in Minnesota
Minnesota residents now have a robust, objective resource to compare the patient experience of care across medical clinics. The statewide Quality Reporting and Measurement System, created by a state reform…
Preparing for 2014: Questions for ObamaCare’s Opponents
As a confident critic of ObamaCare from its genesis, I’m impressed that the law remains unpopular and that the American people appear ready to scrap it and start again. As…
Groups Nationwide to Get Federal Grants to Promote ACA
Efforts to get Americans used to the idea of healthcare exchanges and mandated coverage just got a major shot in the arm, financially. HHS has ponied up the funds for…
Online Messaging Improves Doctor-Patient Relationships: Why Aren’t More Doctors Doing It?
Private messaging and sharing with doctors and patients may be a key factor in improving patient-doctor communications and achieving better patient education and compliance. Private messaging and sharing with doctors…
Company Seeking Type 1 Diabetes Early Detection Tool
Originally published on MedCityNews.com.A young diagnostics company has turned a $500,000 SBIR grant it won last year into an assay that it hopes will eventually help researchers and clinicians detect…
How to Engage Patients: Start with Strategic Planning
Patient engagement is on the minds of healthcare leaders today who care about the Affordable Care Act and its driver, healthcare reform. Patient engagement is on the minds of healthcare…
