Personal Tracking Devices Dominate Digital Health Crowdfunding Dollars
(First published on MedCityNews) (First published on MedCityNews)In a look at funding of digital health startups over the first six months of 2013, accelerator Rock Health made note of 38…
Boomer Voice: Aging 2.0 Helps Innovators Market to Boomers [video interview]
Aging 2.0 is a global network of innovators, investors, researchers, technologists and older adults. The idea behind the network is to identify and support innovators working in large and small companies…
How Do We Search For Health Information?
72% of US internet users have looked online for health information in the past year. Most search for a specific disease or medical problem (55%) or a certain medical treatment…
How Immigrants Strengthen the Medicare Trust Fund
Growing up in the deep south, where most of my family still lives, I can’t tell you how often I hear complaints about all the supposed havoc immigrants are wreaking…
Where Have All the Independent Hospitals Gone? In Cleveland, Into the Mouths of the Big Guys
(Frist published on MedCityNews) National hospital M&A trends have played out pointedly on the stage of greater Cleveland, which is home to two non-government hospital Goliaths, Cleveland (Frist published on…
Medicare’s Problems Are Much Worse Than You Think
Last week, Larry Kotlikoff and I set the record straight in the Wall Street Journal. What follows is a version of that editorial.The latest report of the Medicare trustees report…
30 Day Hospital Readmission Rates: Opportunity for Patient & Caregiver Engagement
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project has released a new infographic on hospital readmissions by diagnosis and inpatient procedure. Hospital readmission is an indicator of quality…
Innovative Care Models for Prevention, Health Promotion, Fitness and Disease Management
Standing room only at the APTA 2013 Conference Standing room only at the APTA 2013 ConferenceIt was a packed house for an excellent session on Innovative Care models at the…
5 Questions You’re Likely Not Asking About Digital Health, But Should
For nearly a decade, I have had the privilege of experiencing, researching and contributing to the digital revolution in health. When I first started focusing on this space, few were…
Britain Shows Support for Genetically Modified Embryos to Prevent Disease
(First published in MedCityNews) (First published in MedCityNews)Talk about wow. Reports out of Britain this week suggest that it could soon become the first country to allow an in-vitro fertilization…
