Urinalysis Via Mobile App
When you go for a physical, there’s a good chance your doctor will ask for a urine sample. Testing urine can reveal many things, such as diseases, pregnancy, drug usage,…
IBM’s Super Computer, Watson , Goes to Medical School: Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support
IBM's super computer, Watson, is going to medical school at Cleveland Clinic. What Watson has to bring to medicine is the potential for advanced clinical decision support, specifically algorithm-based, Bayesian…
Efforts to Remove Legal Barriers to Telemedicine
The only thing slower than widespread adoption of telemedicine has been the statutory changes necessary to make the ground more fertile for it. But in just the past six or…
Restricting Diet of People 75+ May Not Make Them Healthier
We recently blogged about overweight seniors who might live longer than their skinnier counterparts. Now according to a recent study, restricting the diet of people 75 and older may not…
Health Insurance Exchanges: Will State IT Departments be Able to Meet the Deadlines?
I don’t care where you look in Healthcare IT today, everyone has a lot on their plates. The Exchanges for each state are supposed to be online and available for…
5 Laws of Innovation and Adoption for Telehealth / mHealth
Every week, I hear about more telehealth, telemedicine, and mHealth solutions in the marketplace – many with their own innovative approach to solving healthcare issues. Yet many of these innovations…
High Quality, Low Cost HealthCare Video Interview Series: Herbert Ong from Healthentic Talks Corporate Wellness
Last week, we heard from John Holland at AMC Health talk about remote patient monitoring in discharge planning, chronic disease care and clinical studies. Today, Herbert Ong, President and CEO…
Social Media Transforming Care for Rare Disease Patients
Several years ago a member of my family was diagnosed with a rare disorder. After numerous doctor visits and a multitude of tests, we finally received a diagnosis and were…
Big Data in Healthcare – Hype or Reality?
Many readers write to me regularly to ask what I think about “Big Data” in healthcare. I tell them that Big Data in our field is generally more hype…
Suffering in Silence: When Doctors Fail to Ask The Right Questions
Let me start by saying that I am by no means an expert in Medical Oncology and I have great respect for what my colleagues in this field are able…
