The Downside of P4P
The report, which examined conditions at Stafford Hospital in Staffordshire over a 50-month period between 2005 and 2009, cites example after example of horrific treatment: patients left unbathed and lying…
Website Helps You Prepare for End-of-Life
Chanel Reynolds was financially unprepared when her husband, Jose Hernando, was killed in an accident in 2009. She has created a website to help others be more prepared. Chanel Reynolds…
Personal Data Security –Beyond Health Care
The legislature in Utah is considering a bill to notify Medicaid beneficiaries that their personal information will be stored by the state. That’s not an unreasonable move, but I expect the practical…
mHealth: Battling Autism with an iPad
According to the advocacy organization, Autism Speaks and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Autism, affects one in 88 children and has become the fastest-growing serious developmental and communicative disability…
mHealth: Prevention is Better Than Cure
Prevention is better than cure, Desiderius Erasmus once said. While we continue to see the exciting development of more efficacious and tolerable treatments coming to market, a new form of…
Getting Beyond the EHR for Shared Decision Making
Introducing incentives for EHR adoption as part of the stimulus law was definitely the right thing to do. There was a momentary opportunity to advance health IT with significant funding…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Envisage Visual Rehab Project Promotes Independence
Envisage ProjectThe Envisage Research Project is a collaborative endeavor in Scotland that uses visualization to help the elderly with their rehabilitation efforts. The University of Strathclyde’s Bioengineering Unit, The Glasgow School…
HealthCare Social Media Legal Issues: Recent NLRB Cases
In the latest chapter of some inside-the-Beltway wrangling over the validity of recess appointments by President Obama of National Labor Relations Board members, the In the latest chapter of some…
Self-Monitoring: Track Your Metabolism on Your Smartphone
If you’ve ever dieted, you know how frustrating it can be to discover you haven’t lost any weight after a week of counting calories. Sure, you can always blame a…
Genomics at Your Fingertips: DNA Sequencing in the Primary Care Office
Personalized medicine is on the horizon. Social media, wireless devices, mobile smartphones and emerging medical technologies have allowed us to track our own health indicators and monitor our bodies like…
