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…
Improving Healthcare Costs Through Smarter Utilization of Hospice Care
The number of hospice programs and individuals using hospice care in the United States has grown steadily over the past several years. According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care…
Rare Disease Day 2013: Help Spread Awareness
Each year Rare Disease Day is celebrated worldwide on the last day of February. Each year Rare Disease Day is celebrated worldwide on the last day of February. This year…
Telehealth Tipping Points
Every year, it seems there is increasing excitement about how much progress telehealth is poised to make. “This will be the year when telehealth will explode,” people think.…
Do Probiotics Work? Marketing Mania Tramples Science
My kids know that I enjoy a spirited argument. During the days when the dinner table was our public forum, I tried hard to offer a responsible voice of…
