Person-Centered HealthCare: Patient Room of the Future
I sincerely believe that the way we live and what surrounds us contributes (or not) to our well-being. Environment, climate, family, food, housing all affect us and can help or…
Physician Payments: The Not-So-Secret Secret
On July 20th, The Washington Post did an expose on the process for setting the Medicare physician payment schedule entitled, How a secretive panel uses data that distorts doctors’ pay. …
Is Your Website Keeping Patients Away From Your Medical Practice?
As a medical professional you have enough to handle with providing medical care, dealing with insurance companies, and handling the administrative duties on a day-to-day basis. Like most doctors, marketing…
Need a Therapist? Go to Your Computer
When you mention telehealth, most people think of treating patients for physical ailments. Now it may also have a place for treating mental health issues. When you mention telehealth, most…
A Virtual Speech Therapist with Endless Patience
Our language and ability to communicate is something most of us take for granted. Communications is the basis for sharing and the patient-doctor relationship – but what do you do…
Americans (Very) Cautiously Optimistic About Medical Innovations: Pew Survey Results
Originally published on MedCityNews.com.We’ve heard what futurists think about the near future of medicine — that robots will replace doctors and we’ll be surrounded by sensors – but an interesting…
Why Should Radiologists Be Mobile-Friendly?
Radiologists should be mobile friendly. Have you heard that? As soon as someone tells you what you should be, you don’t want to be it, even when you already are.…
Onsite Detection of Malaria Could Be Possible with a Battery-Operated Device
First published in MedCityNews. First published in MedCityNews.When Brian Grimberg and a team at Case Western Reserve University began working on their Rapid Assessment of Malaria (RAM) device nearly four…
Where the Medicare Dollars Go
Medicare reform thus far has been focused on $79 office visits, co-payments for home health care, hospital readmissions, Miami infusion clinics, the price paid for scooters, $45 resting EKG’s, the…
Top 5 Reasons Hospitals Are Losing Money
The High Cost of HospitalsIt's no secret that our healthcare system has been fraught with trouble for some time now. The High Cost of HospitalsIt's no secret that our healthcare…
