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…
3,520 Parenting Books–and My Kids Still Won’t Listen to Me!
According to the Bowker Books in Print database (courtesy of the WSJ article “New Ways to Get Kids to Behave”), the number of parenting books published or distributed rose from…
Gut Flora – Support for the Immune System
Improving and balancing your gut flora is one of the most powerful nutritional interventions you can give your immune system. Learning how to manage yeast overgrowth is crucial to maintaining…
Left Behind: Will Cutting Medicare Hurt Seniors?
First Posted at Forbes on 12/11/2012Forget finances and the fiscal cliff: raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 is likely to kill some of those left behind –…
Collaborating for Population Health Management Strategy
In response to value-based purchasing incentives and the proliferation of risk-sharing structures, the recent article, 5 Ways Population Health is Transforming Hospital Strategy, points out that hospitals that fail to…
How to Live Longer and Better: Design the Second Half of Your Life
"Mirror mirror on the wall" goes the saying..."who's the youngest of them all?" I ask myself. "Mirror mirror on the wall" goes the saying..."who's the youngest of them all?" I…
