Sobering Report for Health of 40+
A MetLife Report on the Health Status of the 40+ Population paints a sobering picture. A MetLife Report on the Health Status of the 40+ Population paints a sobering picture.…
HIPAA Not an Excuse for Lack of Innovation in Hospitals and Clinics
As a 20-year practicing physician and a former hospital CIO/CMIO, I am well aware that healthcare is an extremely complex, highly regulated industry. I often tell young entrepreneurs that healthcare…
Investment in Healthcare IT is on the Rise – Are We Ready for Change?
We all know healthcare is massively broken, we know that we are light-years behind every other industry, we still use fax machines, we still use pagers, and we still ask…
How To Use SmartStream For HealthCare Tweet Chats
According to the latest figures from Symplur's Healthcare Hashtag Project, there are 9,130 participants taking part in over 100 healthcare chats each week on Twitter. Twitter hashtags range from disease…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Mobile technology is key to NHS service transformation
Mobile technology will be key in delivering the aims of the Scottish e-Health strategy and the service transformation agenda of NHS Scotland, explains Colin Reid, chief executive of TotalMobile. Mobile technology…
Treating Patients Anywhere, Anytime with Telemedicine
Modern medicine has brought some amazing technological advances. But at the end of the day, the most powerful medical tool remains the old-fashioned one: expert clinicians with the knowledge to…
Physician Rating Sites: Threat or Opportunity?
This is an article which I wrote for the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. This was a comment on the paper, Daniel Strech. This is an article which I wrote…
Government Wants Patients to Report Medical Mistakes – Is This a Mistake?
I’m all for enhancing patient safety. Count me in on reducing medical errors. I acknowledge that medical mistakes harm patients and many can be prevented. The medical profession should…
Health Start-Ups!: Fast Track to Success – Jintronix Rehabilitation Services
One of the really great things about my company, Health Tech Hatch, was getting to be a part of the TEDMED Hive this year and having the opportunity to meet…
Lung Cancer Part 4 – Drug Therapy
Lung cancer causes 160,000 deaths each year – more than the next four cancers combined. Diagnostic and treatment options have improved greatly in the past decade and continue to…
