A Framework for Mindfulness: 10 Minutes At a Time
When did someone last give you a tool that added more time in your day, or provided greater clarity or calm? What if you were told that to achieve this,…
How Hospitals Can Use Twitter’s Vine App
Twitter, the 140-character micro-blogging service, has recently released a new video-sharing application called Vine, where users can record motion and sound clips from iOS devices and upload them through the…
Dropping Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Benefit Health Care System
Special thanks to Emily Egan for her thoughtful contributions, writing and ideas for this post. Special thanks to Emily Egan for her thoughtful contributions, writing and ideas for this post. In…
4 Tips for Using HealthCare Social Media to Attract New Patients
This post was published on Kevin MD on February 17, 2013When it comes to attracting new patients using the Internet is crucial. Many people begin their searches for new products…
In Times of Change, HealthCare Leaders Turn to Internal Communications
Healthcare leaders recognize the importance of internal communication experts when it comes to creating awareness, understanding and support for organizational change. And it goes without saying that “change” is the…
Michigan Physicians Benefit From HIPAA Compliant E-Prescribing
The federal government agency for health IT, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has recognized Michigan as an early achiever, completing the first milestone in…
Can Google Predict Who Catches the Flu?
In the last ten years, the Internet has drastically transformed the way people interact, learn, and seek information. Each and every day millions of people search for health-related information on…
IVF in Simple terms
Infertility, or the reproductive system's inability to conceive a child, affects millions of people around the world. It is considered today to be a disorder that affects both men and…
Dare to Be Adequate: Hospital Advertising That Fails (and What to Do Instead)
We’ve noticed a disturbing sameness among some hospital and medical advertising. Fortunately, it’s not everyone or even most healthcare advertising, but there are all too many instances when the message…
Are New “Quality of Life Drugs” Worth the Expense?
Very recently a review committee in the U.K. made a preliminary recommendation that the government’s National Health Service should not pay for a newly approved medicine that greatly reduces or…
