Health Insurance Card Doesn’t Mean You Have Healthcare
I was a big fan of Andy Rooney, that curmudgeon who reported television news in a manner that caught our attention, using a combination of disbelief and an air of…
Innovative Ways to Talk About STDs
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 110 million sexually transmitted infections among men and women in the United States. The majority of new cases…
Hospital Revenues from Primary Care: Recruiting Firm Notes “Seismic Shift”
A report from one of the largest physician recruiting firms in the country could give some heft to the specialty of primary care (whose disciplines include general internal medicine, family…
Hospitals Shift More Digital Dollars to Influencing Physicians
Hospital executives say they are increasing their digital marketing budgets to reach and influence doctors. Hospital executives say they are increasing their digital marketing budgets to reach and influence doctors.…
ATA 2013 Market Outlook Session: What’s Slowing Down Telehealth?
One of the most interesting sessions I attended at ATA 2013 in Austin was moderated by Frost & Sullivan’s Daniel Ruppar. The topic: Not all telehealth markets are equal. One…
The Challenges of Treating Homeless Patients
For most of our patients, the Student Run Homeless Clinic is the last stop in a long, fruitless search for healthcare in the city of New Orleans. Recently, an insulin-dependent…
High Quality, Low Cost HealthCare Video Interview Series: Kelly Tappenden and The Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition
Last week we heard Dr Valenti tell us about The Physicians Foundation and how it could help improve healthcare. Today, Kelly Tappenden, PhD, RD talks about the Alliance to Advance…
Angelina Jolie’s Decision: Do I Need to Be Tested?
As a medical student on the ward you never knew what was coming. We had a sheet saying this young 36-year-old woman was being admitted by one of the cancer…
Beautiful Healthcare Marketing: Angelina’s Decision
So rarely is healthcare marketing a beautiful thing. So rarely is healthcare marketing a beautiful thing.The television commercials are boring, replete with mind-numbing lists of side effects. The social media…
The Trials of Progress in the Affordable Care Act
Five months after primary care doctors who treat Medicaid patients were supposed get a big pay raise, most physicians have yet to see it.While Medicaid fees vary by state, they…
