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…
Pump, Rub, Clean, Repeat: Save Lives with Proper Hand Hygiene
Flu season. Deadly super bugs. Whatever the threat of disease or infection, hand washing, as simple and obvious at it seems, is always one of the first and highest recommended…
Olive Oil: Oil of the Gods
The Almighty Olive Oil originated in Ancient Greece and has a multitude of uses. Of course we all know how wonderfully tasty and healthy olive oil is when used in…
90-Plus Living Longer and Smarter
Those surviving past the age of 90 today are living longer and are mentally sharper than those born a decade earlier. A Danish study has shown that people born in…
