Open Science Champions: NCBI Director, 16-Year-Old Researcher Among White House Honorees
(First published in MedCityNews) (First published in MedCityNews)More personalized treatments for cancer. Diagnostics that enable earlier detection of disease. Better ways to screen drug candidates. Those are a few of…
Sleep Monitoring at Home
We are not getting enough sleep and it is hurting usThe evidence is clear: the less sleep you get the more likely you will develop heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and…
Paying Bills: A Novel Idea in Southern Europe
For years some have argued that Americans subsidize health care in the rest of the world by paying high prices for drugs. European and other governments take advantage of the…
The Future of Healthcare: Provider Management Is Critical
Provider Management. New term - maybe. New business - no.Provider Management is a unique niche within healthcare that is only recently gaining steam as its impact on the broader healthcare…
What Is the Best Role For Government in Health Care?
The other day I had a post on an ingenious entrepreneurial solution to the problem of imperfect information in the market for physicians’ services. One of the commenters was Nobel…
Using Business Intelligence and Analytics for Orthopedic Billing
Technology has changed the way business in general is transacted. It has also changed the way a medical practice is managed. Technology has changed the way business in general is…
Just-in-Time Health Information Systems Are Coming: Are You Ready?
Just-in-time health information systems are defined as the combination of technologies, devices, data and information that deliver personalized, relevant content to consumers, health providers and others. This information is usually…
How Did Myriad Genetics Come to Own Our Genes?
A momentous event happened on June 13, 20013: The Supreme Court unanimously voided Myriad Genetics patent on the human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. Even more surprising: the decision was written and read…
What Does Screening Your Phone Records Have to Do With Health Care?
I have been following the news about the National Security Agency (NSA) access to our phone records with great interest. If we as a society don’t sort some of this…
