Affordable Care Act – New Hurdles with Contraception
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cleared two major hurdles in 2012: the Supreme Court ruling on constitutionality and the reelection of President Barack Obama. However, in 2013 there…
Adapting to EHRs andThe Catch-22 of the Physician Champion Role
Yes, I'm a geek. When my girls were in high school, their friends were amazed that they received texts from their mother. One daughter has commented on Facebook that her…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Verizon Launches Philanthropic Mobile HealthCare Programs
Photo: Verizon Photo: VerizonAt the recent mHealth Summit conference, Verizon announced the launch of their innovative philanthropic healthcare program. The Verizon Foundation is investing about $13 million in non-profit partnerships…
HealthCare’s Need for Transparency Goes Far Beyond Pricing
Editor's Note: Dan Munro is a contributing editor to Forbes.com. His columns are collected under the heading, "The HealthCare Compass."As a country, we’ve completely succumbed to the well publicized fact…
USPSTF Pushes Back on Hepatitis C Virus Mass Screening.
I spend a lot of my time reading, thinking and writing about politics and medicine. I love the debate. Three of the five Kirsch progeny engaged in serious school debate…
Eat, Drink and Be Merry (But Choose Wisely): Taking Individual Responsibility to Reduce Healthcare Costs
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the US today. Medicine has many advanced therapies to treat heart attacks and strokes. However, one of…
Social Media, mHealth and Medicine: 2012 in Review and Hopes for the Future
Social media is the future of medicine. Patients, providers, pharma and industryare becoming increasingly connected. mHealth (mobile health) is the practice of medicine using technology such as mobile phones, tablet…
#mHealth Summit: Serious Games Alive, Well and Prepared to Partner
Monday afternoon in the Washington DC area, a panel of serious game developers moderated by fellow game developer and co-founder at Digitalmill, Ben Sawyer (@BenSawyer) addressed a packed room of…
Data Breach Analysis 2009-2012 – HITECH Experience Reviewed by HITRUST
In the first three years that the HITECH data breach notification rules have been in effect (September 2009 - September 2012), almost 500 breaches affecting more than 500 individuals have…
Collaborating for Mobile Health Innovation
As we begin to think about holidays, visions of sugar plum health apps danced in the heads of the mHealth participants attending the 2012 summit, recently held in Washington, DC. …
