How Much Does a Knee Replacement Cost? A Question From a NJ Transit Bus
An ad for surgery on the side of a bus is guaranteed to get my attention. So this ad for “custom knee replacement” at the Raritan Bay Medical Center was…
Cleveland Clinic and Doximity Make Earning CME Credits More Social
Originally published on MedCityNews.Digital health startup Doximity and the Cleveland Clinic are collaborating on a new digital platform that would give physicians a more flexible and social way to earn…
Caring For Chronic Illnesses Should Be Different
Our medical care system does not deal well with chronic illnesses; it really concentrates on and is best at treating acute illnesses or trauma - as it has done…
Collaborative HealthCare CEOs
This post about collaborative HealthCare CEOs takes inspiration from Molly Gamble’s recent interview with Quint Studer, entitled 5 Things the Most Extraordinary Hospital CEOs Do. I encourage you to read this…
Mayo Clinic-Cancer Genetics Joint Venture Will Improve Diagnostics
Originally published on MedCityNews. Originally published on MedCityNews.Now that next-generation DNA sequencing is fast enough, cheap enough and commercially available, the next challenging for innovators is finding ways to effectively…
Medical Billing: A Paper Blizzard Not Addressed by EHR
Everything we read suggests the day is nearing when all hospitals and doctors will use computers instead of paper to create, store, and share our medi Everything we read suggests the…
Imposing Order on a Microbial World
Last week our Plexus call had a dynamic discussion representing different lenses focusing on the concern of preventing infections in healthcare environments. Last week our Plexus call had a dynamic…
Health Start-Ups!: Another Round
After my last round of health start-ups, I received lots of emails, comments, and shout-outs on LinkedIn, FB and Twitter about more cool health start-ups. I culled the lot and…
Social Business Intelligence for Healthcare
I like to think of social business intelligence as listening to posts across the entire spectrum of social media outlets. It is closely related to social customer relationship management, which…
When Is a Mammogram Not a Mammogram?
The most common imaging test for breast cancer detection is the mammogram, but it’s not the only one. The most common imaging test for breast cancer detection is the mammogram,…
