Would You Pick a Restaurant Based on a Health Score?
When people visit the review site Yelp to look up a restaurant, they usually look for reviews on food quality and service. Each page’s profile provides reviews from customers, location…
Molecular, Genomic Diagnostic Service Lab Raising Funds for Personalized Medicine
Using DNA sequencing to help doctors and pharmaceutical companies personalize treatments for disease has netted a South Carolina startup a small seed round of capital. Using DNA sequencing to help…
ICD 10 Implementation: Understanding the Financial Ramifications
Hospitals and providers across the country are gearing up for implementation of the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases, or ICD-10 codes. ICD-10 implementation, despite several false starts,…
Changing Behavior Through Patient Stories in Telluride
Each new session in Telluride, Dave Mayer and Tim McDonald share the Tears to Transparency educational documentary films — stories of harm that befell Michael Skolnik and Lewis Blackman–both promising…
Do All of Us Really Have to Change?
As someone who professionally closely tracks the debate over the transformation of the American health care clinical delivery system, I did not learn much new from the June 2nd New York…
Health Start-Ups! – Four Tips for Health IT Start-Ups
(Editor's Note: Introducing Amanda Guerrero, who will write occasionally for the Health Start-Ups! series. Amanda has a passion for healthcare technology and blogs about healthcare-related topics, including electronic medical records, Meaningful…
Mapping the Patient Journey with Advanced Social Intelligence
Today’s digital social age presents an incredible opportunity for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. For years, the struggle to understand evolving patient needs in order to strategically align and address…
Siemens and Varian: Hooking Up to Mutual Advantage
Photo: Biograph mCT PET/CT systemA little more than a year ago, a marriage of sorts shook up the world of radiation therapy. Varian Medical Systems and Siemens Healthcare formed a…
A New Age for Smartphone Apps
The plethora of mobile apps comes under scrutiny and the market grows … The plethora of mobile apps comes under scrutiny and the market grows …The Food and Drug Administration…
Sensors and Smartphones Bring the Baby Monitor Into 2013
Originally published on MedCityNews.comThis company has a tempting and comforting value proposition for new parents: around-the-clock baby monitoring without so much sleep deprivation. Originally published on MedCityNews.comThis company has a…
