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…
Doctor/Patient Relationship: 7 Ways to Maintain Patient Interaction in the Age of the EHR
A common criticism of EMR (electronic medical records) use in medical practices is that it causes doctors to become less engaged and impersonal. This causes frustration for all parties -…
The Changing Landscape of Healthcare Data Analytics
Legislation such as the HITECH Act, as well as the shift toward fee-for-value reimbursement models, is driving the need to extract meaning from data and accelerating the market adoption of…
Heart Disease: What is Calcium Scoring?
Heart disease tragically affects almost every family in the United States. It is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, claiming more than…
Seize the Moment for Patient-Centered Care
In this New Year, we have witnessed another presidential inauguration, the symbol of a peaceful transition of power in the democracy we are privileged to call our own. As we…
Interactive Medical Education With ArcheMedX
ArcheMedX, a healthcare informatics and e-learning technology company, is the brainchild of Joel Selzer, serial entrepreneur (Ozmosis and Medical Funding Services) and Brian S. ArcheMedX, a healthcare informatics and e-learning…
Defending the Mentally Ill Who Smoke
I hate cigarette smoke and have also been sympathetic to health plans that want to exclude smokers or charge them much higher premiums. Yet a new government report reminded me…
Doctors and Social Media: Personal vs. Professional Online Content
The topic of health care social media continues here on Healthin30, and legal expert, David Harlow, Esq, Health Care Attorney and Consultant at The Harlow Group, LLC in Boston,…
Patient Engagement Matters
According to a Commonwealth Fund–supported study in Health Affairs, patients at a large care delivery system in Minnesota who were identified as the most “activated”―that is, participated in treatment decisions and…
