Ask These 10 Questions Before Starting Any Medication
As a patient or caregiver, it is expected of us to have and ask all the questions regarding our health, medications and follow ups for our loved ones and ourselves.…
2013: The Year of Healthcare Emancipation?
Hang on to your hats – this one might wade into controversy. Hang on to your hats – this one might wade into controversy.As I write this (3:30pm EST on…
Caregiver’s Balm: Capture YOUR Creative Spirit
Recently, my mother-in-law, Maria, was diagnosed with Stage IV Breast Cancer and at 88 years old, that might just be a recipe for "caregiver doom and gloom," often felt when…
Understanding the Medical Device Tax
An Introduction to the Medical Excise Tax An Introduction to the Medical Excise TaxPassed as part of the recent overhaul to the American healthcare industry popularly known as "Obamacare", the…
Top Ten HealthCare Quotes of 2012
Editor's Note: Dan Munro is a contributing editor to Forbes.com. His columns are collected under the heading, "The HealthCare Compass. Editor's Note: Dan Munro is a contributing editor to Forbes.com. …
The Man Who Brought Computers Into Medicine
First Posted at Forbes on 12/18/2012 First Posted at Forbes on 12/18/2012When Homer Warner first started using computers in a hospital, the computers were analog and the house call was state-of-the-art. Although…
Breach of UofM Health System: 4K Affected
The University of Michigan Health System has been notifying around 4,000 patients last week that demographic, medication and health information has been stolen. The University of Michigan Health System has…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: MediSafe Helps Prevent Drug Emergencies
MediSafe Project just launched the first cloud-based mobile app for medication compliance, helping patients and their families avoid medication errors and emergencies. MediSafe, based in Haifa, Israel, is an app…
Top 20 HealthWorks Collective Posts of 2012
I was asked by my good friend and Social Media Today CEO, Robin Carey, to write up the top 10 posts of 2012. I thought this was a super idea…
Cynical Thoughts about Medical Insurance
Is anyone else irritated by medical insurance companies' efforts to improve the health of their members by encouraging them to do recommended tests based on claims-made data? Recently, a patient…
