Social Media and Public Health: Using Facebook to Monitor Obesity Prevalence
In my second year working at Johnson & Johnson as a graduate fellow, I embraced an opportunity to be a member of the company’s newly formed social media team. I…
Can YOU Innovate Healthcare? Critical Info For Startups
If your invention aims to innovate Healthcare never forget to prove the three main points in your marketing message whenever you're talking to investors or potential buyers: If your invention…
Can YOU Innovate Healthcare? Critical Info For Startups
If your invention aims to innovate Healthcare never forget to prove the three main points in your marketing message whenever you're talking to investors or potential buyers: If your invention…
Wellness, Nondiscrimination and Evidence-Based Public Policy
A couple of recent wellness-related headlines caught my eye. A couple of recent wellness-related headlines caught my eye.Exhibit A: The Federales (IRS, DOL & HHS) finalized the regulations governing Incentives for…
Microsoft’s New ‘Xbox One’ Can Measure Heart Rate
(Editor's note: Dan Munro writes for Forbes.com under the heading "HealthCare Compass") (Editor's note: Dan Munro writes for Forbes.com under the heading "HealthCare Compass")To be clear, Microsoft made no official healthcare announcement today.…
A Novel Way to Watch Brain Surgery
Live tweeting a health procedure may be fascinating, but it isn’t a new concept. The patient simply gives an okay and someone in the operating room uses a specific hashtag…
Spending Time With Patients
While I spend time teaching patients to cook- that is fun- but what is professionally rewarding is physicians who spend time with their patientsShe came to my office nervous, and…
A Message for Docs: Embrace (Don’t Fear) Online Patient Reviews
Sites where patients review and rate their physicians have in the past seemed to get a bad rap. But as patients look more at their healthcare choices the way they…
Health Start-Ups! – ACA Will Help Self-Employed and Would-be Entrepreneurs
As most regular readers of this blog know, I’m self-employed. Fortunately, I don’t need to worry about health insurance, since I am covered through my husband’s job.However, many are not…
Can Physician Practices Remain Profitable?
Report identifies a confluence of challenges that make staying profitable increasingly difficult for physician practices today. Report identifies a confluence of challenges that make staying profitable increasingly difficult for physician practices today.Physicians…
