Person-Centered HealthCare: The FDA Gets Patient-Centric
The FDA just recently launched their Patient Network Site and initiative to get patients, patient advocates and patient communities more involved in what the FDA is doing. The new website…
How Healthcare Marketers Can Reach Target Audiences
In 2013, targeting is all the rage in pharma marketing. More and more pharma companies are reserving their funds for use with vendors that can exactly target specific audiences – most narrowly, against a…
Communication and Engagement Helped Minn. Hospitals Cut Avoidable Readmissions
Originally published on MedCityNews.com.Several dozen Minnesota hospitals and healthcare providers have focused efforts in five distinct areas to drive down avoidable readmissions by 20 percent over the past two years.…
Coming: A Two-Tiered Health Care System
I believe we are moving toward two different health systems. I believe we are moving toward two different health systems.In one system, patients will be able to see doctors promptly.…
GMO Part 3: Allergies
Allergies: what are they?An allergic reaction is an inflammatory response to a protein. That protein is something that is harmless and that is what makes little biologic sense. Common proteins…
Healthcare Reform: A 9-Minute Explanation
Do you have nine minutes? We just had to share this video. It is the simplest and most straightforward explanation we have ever seen. Do you have nine minutes? We…
Why Hospitals, Health Plans and Medical Groups Should Invest in Patient-Centered Communication Skills
“Patients are, in fact, overly patient; they put up with unnecessary discomforts and grant their doctors the benefit of every doubt, until deficiencies in care are too manifest to be…
Control Your Blood Pressure with Online Tool
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in every three American adults has high blood pressure. That adds up to 67 million American adults. According to…
In-Office Imaging for Radiologists: An Uncertain Future
Physicians have long been used to working within the framework of the Stark Law. This 1989 legislation placed restrictions on the ability of doctors for self referrals, for Medicare and…
Chat 129: An Apps Pharmacy Coming to a Neighbourhood Near You?
By Fanny Gillet and edited by Colleen Young By Fanny Gillet and edited by Colleen YoungOn Wednesday 22nd, hcsmca-ers put themselves in a large academic health center CIO’s shoes to imagine what health care application they…
