Address Workplace Stress with Help from a Digital Coaching Program
Originally published on MedCityNews.Life is busy, work is hard, money is tight and there’s never enough time in the day. That’s the reality for many people, and it’s causing what meQuilibrium…
YouTube Overview: 12 Helpful Tips About Using Video Sharing in Healthcare Marketing
Editor’s Note: This is a further installment in our continuing series of articles about social media and healthcare marketing. YouTube, and other video content sharing platforms, represent a low cost,…
Empowered Patients: The Two Sides of Superman
Superman has two sides. When he puts on his cape, he has the ability “to leap tall buildings in a single bound.” As mild mannered Clark Kent, he goes about…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: How to Incentivize mHealth Innovation – Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize Update
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize is a $10 million global competition developed to incentivize healthcare technology innovation. The goal is to develop a hand-held device that would allow a consumer to…
Complementary Care Adds a Touch of Fun
Sometimes, giving care doesn’t mean taking a temperature or ordering blood work. Iyna Adams, a subacute team leader at Northwest Hospital, saw this firsthand when she brought her Labrador retriever,…
HIT Vendor Seeking MDDS for Meaningful Relationship
As noted before, from time to time I answer questions and exchange ideas with folks from hospitals, companies and with students. It’s a karma thing with me – if I…
How Is Marketing a Healthcare Practice Different?
In many respects, marketing a healthcare practice is not substantially different from marketing a small business in other industries. Basic business marketing principles that apply in other industries – including…
Transformational and Disruptive Changes to Healthcare Delivery
More chronic illnesses, more old age impairments, consumers demanding more quality and convenience, physicians no longer in typical private practice, and high deductible health care polices are each about to…
Health Start-Ups! – Fearless Teen Scientists Finding Better Ways To Detect Cancer
Originally published on MedCityNews.At one point during my trip to FutureMed earlier this year, I found myself seated next to a young man — noticeably younger than many of the…
The Four “Metal Plans” of Health Insurance Exchanges
Summary: What are metal plans? What distinguishes one from another? When do they go into effect? Summary: What are metal plans? What distinguishes one from another? When do they go…
