AirStrip: Bringing mHealth to the Desktop
(First published in MedCityNews)In the age of the iPad in healthcare, AirStrip is taking a bold step in announcing it will develop a version of its AirStrip One mobile platform…
Republicans’ Proposals for Medicare
(Editor's Note: Stephen Schimpff has been a member of our Advisory Board since the very beginning. He has given us numerous exclusive posts; here is his latest!) (Editor's Note: Stephen…
War on Women’s Choice Continues
Ohio is just the latest in an increasingly long list of states intent on restricting reproductive freedom for half of its population. Gov. John Kasich signed a budget into law…
A “Bundle” of New Learning Resources for Health Care Providers
For many practitioners, a bundle is either:One set price for cable, phone, and TVA myocardial conduction systemA software program that automatically handles formatting, paginating, indexing, and collating of documents into…
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…
