New Graduate Nurse Residency Program Teaches Communication Techniques, Compassion
Communication missteps between clinicians and patients can lead to big gaps in care. Input from those who know patients best is invaluable for everyone involved in their care. As the…
Putting Physician Practices Into Context
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is…
Will PICORI (The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute) Be Effective?
The new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has been asking different stakeholders about the most important issues to address with the hundreds of millions of dollars the quasi-governmental group will shortly be…
Protecting Health Information in the Era of Mobile Devices: The Practicalities & Problems of BYOD
I’m attending the mHIMSS Virtual Briefing: Securing Protected Health Information held today from 12PM ET-3:15PM ET online at HIMSSVirtual.org. The event features several sessions on the best practices for mobile…
Secure Use of Social Media: Ensuring the Privacy of Protected Health
I’m attending the mHIMSS Virtual Briefing: Securing Protected Health Information held today from 12PM ET-3:15PM ET online at HIMSSVirtual.org. The event features several sessions on the best practices for mobile…
Contaminated Water and Disease:Are We Safe?
Having clean air to breath and water to drink is a privilege that we often take for granted. It is similar to expecting the lights to flip on when you…
Getting a Second Opinion via Telehealth
In medicine, the “second opinion” is often an important step for a patient deciding on an ideal course of treatment. The opinion of a second physician can help avoid problems…
High Quality, Low Cost HealthCare Video Interview Series: Robert Herzog and eCaring
Last week we heard Martha Bebinger talk about using her website HealthCareSavvy to shop for healthcare. This week, Robert Herzog will show us the CareManager and CareTracker from eCaring. I…
4 Common Myths About Online & Social Media Health Content Debunked
Since September 2012 (and during previous stand-alone digihealth pulse studies conducted with online moms and health providers) we’ve been collecting reams of data on how people actually find and consume…
