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…
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…
