The Importance of Being on the Same Page
No doctor is perfect. My guess is that orthopedic surgeons are as tired of talking about the importance of weight loss and exercise as I am to what seems to…
5 Medical Risks That Pregnant Women Need to Be Aware Of
If you're considering pregnancy, do you have a medical condition that may cause a risk? Seek out proper medical care if you suffer from any of these five conditions.…
A Responsive Site? You Need One Now So Doctors Will Thank You Later
What is responsive web design?Responsive web design is an approach for building websites that provides the reader with an optimal viewing experience no matter what size screen it is being…
The Willing Provider Problem
I spend a lot of time thinking about and researching issues around access to health care. Typically, when we–the American people–think about access to care, we think about one thing:…
Fee-for-Service Again
USA Today asked me to write a counterpoint to their editorial calling for the abolition of Fee-For-Service payment in health care. USA Today asked me to write a counterpoint to…
Patients Are Waiting to Partner: Invite Them to Participate
(This post first appeared on Educate the Young) (This post first appeared on Educate the Young)In a recent Baltimore Sun piece, healthcare writer Marie McCarren wrote an op-ed providing “A…
Boomer Health: Top 8 Best Health Digital Resources for Boomers
There are literally thousands of health, wellness, medical, fitness and caregiving apps and websites targeted to Baby Boomers. They promise to enhance our lives, help us be thinner, fitter, smarter,…
What Is a “Navigator”?
1581: Francis Drake, having completed the first circumnavigation of the world a few months earlier, is knighted by Queen Elizabeth aboard his ship, the Golden HindDo we need navigators on…
The “Luck of the Jewish” in Cancer
Okay, we all know the phrase “The Luck of the Irish.” That’s why there’s always hope that Notre Dame University will win a football game, even when they are way…
High Quality, Low Cost HealthCare: Thoughts for Our Upcoming Webinar
The HealthWorks Collective video interview series on High Quality, Low Cost Healthcare currently consists of 30 video interviews with distinguished guests who have an idea of how to obtain or…
