Grading Media Coverage: Gary Schwitzer Holds Health Journalists’ Feet to the Fire
How do you turn a flood of news and information into something useful? That's what we try to do at Delve, and for our Wonk Lens series we ask smart…
Complementary Therapies: Who’s in the Dark?
When I saw the MedPage Today headline “Study: Docs in dark about complementary therapies,” I assumed it meant that doctors didn’t understand these therapies. But the story described patients withholding…
Content Marketing Can Engage Healthcare Consumers
Content marketing is a hot topic for healthcare marketers. And no wonder. More than ever, healthcare consumers are seeking information, sharing healthcare experiences, exploring treatments and selecting providers online. Content…
Medical Tests or Procedures That May Be Unnecessary
The "Choosing Wisely" campaign routinely releases information on tests that they find potentially unnecessary and sometimes harmful. An additional 18 tests or procedures to question have been added. The "Choosing Wisely"…
Physician Wellness: Why It’s Such a Struggle
In response to the chronic epidemic of physician burnout, there is a lot of talk about Physician Wellness these days. Hospitals and groups are being encouraged to establish a physician…
4 Ways Chiropractic Adjustments Improve Your Health
The most common reason to seek Chiropractic care is chronic neck or back pain; however, most people don’t realize that treatments can relieve virtually any type of health condition—from…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Using Social Network Analysis Methods for an mHealth Evaluation in Ghana
The Challenge: The Challenge:The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is an integrated and community-led rural development program that seeks to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. There are more than…
Social Networking Analysis Shows Promise for mHealth – video interview
Editor's note: This video interview is actually a continuation of our Mobile Health Around the Globe post today on Nadi Kaonga's social networking analysis of the Millennium Villages project in…
Another Surreal Moment in Modern Medicine
A few months ago my office manager, Debbie, informed me that it was time for my annual "coding audit". This is where my employer sends in a hired gun to…
Medicare Payments to Providers Are Carved, Sliced and Chopped by Sequestration
2% Sequestration Cuts Take a Big Bite Out Of Medicare Reimbursements 2% Sequestration Cuts Take a Big Bite Out Of Medicare Reimbursements CARVED – Sequestration is defined as taking legal possession of…
