Social Media in Healthcare: How to Harness the Marketing Opportunity
Social Media: Part One Social Media: Part One Social media (SM) has swiftly engrained itself in nearly every corner of contemporary culture and daily living. And that includes healthcare where, among…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Healthcare Technology in the 21st Century
Is the cloud the cure for what ails you? It could be, if service providers and telehealth device manufacturers have anything to say about it. Is the cloud the cure…
Is Colonoscopy the Best Colon Cancer Screening Test?
The medical arena, like society at large, is permeated with self-interest. This reality makes me very skeptical that comparative effectiveness research, which I support, will get airborne. In medicine, every…
Fight the Flu. It Starts with You.
Influenza (better known as the Flu), has always been a potentially deadly illness, but most strains can be fought off by young healthy people. A person with influenza or a…
Digital Health 2013: Innovating Partnerships for Better Care
With the kick-off of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, digital health was found to play an increasingly prominent role. From panel discussions to product launches, there was a…
A New Culture of Learning by John Seely Brown
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Founder–IBM If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Founder–IBM John Seely Brown, fondly referred to…
When and How Much TasP is Value for Money?
This is a joint post with Mead Over and Denizhan Duran. This is a joint post with Mead Over and Denizhan Duran.In mid-2011, one of the biggest developments in HIV/AIDS…
Reframing Gun Control as a Public Health Issue
Gun proponents have worked hard to characterize unfettered firearm ownership as a bedrock constitutional right, to be protected at all costs. Gun proponents have worked hard to characterize unfettered firearm…
FCC Chairman: A Telemedicine Convert?
Now that the FCC, after two years of foot-dragging, has finally approved the plan to spend the $400 million appropriated for broadband expansion in rural areas, you might get the idea that the…
