Mobile Health Around the Globe: Cloud Can (Already) Improve Patient Care
We needn’t read another market forecast or research report to know: Cloud computing is poised to help revolutionize nearly every aspect of modern healthcare. Likewise, we don’t have to dip…
Does Medical Resident Work Hour Reform Reduce Medical Errors?
One of the points I offer in this blog and elsewhere is to be skeptical to assume that something is true because we think it should be. We’ve been brainwashed…
Money and Power Embrace Patient Engagement
The February issue of Health Affairs proclaims, “New Era of Patient Engagement,” but what signals changing times as much as a new intensity of academic interest is the money and power muscling in…
Are All Dental Crowns The Same?
Dental crowns are a type of dental restoration which completely covers and protects a tooth or a dental implant. Dental crowns are often necessary when a large cavity has destroyed a good portion of…
Straight Talk About the State of Healthcare Marketing
Earlier this week, I sent an email to a group of long-time and much respected healthcare marketing colleagues with a rather innocent request: one of our health system clients is…
Leveraging Health IT to Strengthen Patient Engagement
In the spirit of moving innovation forward, I found relevance in the following article about engendering trust using healthcare technology. In the crossfire of my own struggles with technology, I…
Why the PCORI Picks Matter
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has just appointed four new advisory panels that will help guide hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants. Unfortunately, while PCORI released the new advisers’ names,…
Social Media Benefits Delivery of Care in This Pediatric Practice
Sara Hamil and Dr. Paul Dempsey Sara Hamil and Dr. Paul DempseyAnyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I’m a big fan of Quinte Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Dr.…
Interview with Lawrence Sherman on eCME and ePatients
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Lawrence Sherman since we first met on the digital health conference circuit, when, as he likes to remind us, I was the first person…
Big Data and Data Sharing – Going Places?
Several recent publications have focused on big data and data sharing in healthcare for secondary use of EMR data. First, the American Society of Clinical Oncology announced CancerLinQ. CancerLinQ is…
