Is the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?
This past week, Google had its annual developers conference, Google I/O. One of the more provocative talks, called “The End of Search as We Know It,” was by Amit Singhal,…
Health Wonk Review: Sardonic Edition
This edition of the Health Wonk Review is a bit tongue-in-cheek, as I offer some interesting definitions of well-known words and make light of some of the more despair-inducing aspects…
Robots Caring for the Elderly?
The New York Times Bits blog has one of the better articles I’ve read about caregiver robots for the elderly. The New York Times Bits blog has one of the…
Physicians, Health Systems and the Drive for Market Dominance
Physicians have reached out recently to discuss attractive employment offers from health systems. They are invariably conflicted. They understand the trade-offs, that they’ll give up the autonomy they’ve become accustomed…
Small, Solo-Provider Practices Lag in EHR Adoption
At the beginning of May, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that more than half of all eligible healthcare providers had received federal incentive payments for participating…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Improving Patient Experience By Improving Care
Improving patient satisfaction may be at the top of your to-do list in 2013, especially as it relates directly to “Meaningful Use” and maximizing revenue. But what about engagement of…
A Key to Cancer Hope You Should Know
Do you have resources to deal with cancer that go beyond understanding treatment? Patients like me certainly spend a lot of time talking about treatments, and research into better treatments,…
Improving the US Health System: Biggest Obstacles
It’s almost cliché to say that the American healthcare system is changing. But the reality is that the pace of care delivery transformation will speed up in 2013 with technology,…
Diagnosis of Heart Defects Before Birth Prepares Parents and Doctors
Sinai Hospital’s Institute for Maternal-Fetal Medicine was recently awarded accreditation in fetal echocardiography from the Ultrasound Practice Council of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). This important and…
High Reliability Boot Camp: Preparing for Zero Preventable Harm
First published on Educate the YoungMedStar Health is partnering with HPI (Healthcare Performance Improvement) to take this innovative health system to zero preventable harm utilizing the principles of high reliability…
