World’s Largest Healthcare System Banks on Telemedicine
What has been the world’s largest direct healthcare delivery system is now the world’s largest user of telemedicine. Have you guessed who it is?Kudos if you answered the Veterans Administration. In…
Get the Message? Texting Improves Patient Care
As a whole, medicine is slow to adopt new technologies. If that new technology involves an erosion of a doctor’s already-spare private life, you pretty much find yourself with a…
Meet the Bone Ninja, an iPad App That Analyzes Bone Deformities!
When we think of a ninja, we imagine a sword-swinger in black PJ’s, a warrior who could give Spiderman a run for his money in a wall-crawling contest. The Bone…
OCR Releases HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance on De-Identifying PHI
Just two and a half years after hosting a workshop on the HIPAA Privacy Rule's de-identification standard, OCR has issued its "Just two and a half years after hosting a…
Medications and Your Dental Health
Medications are any chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, or prevention of disease. It can also be used as a supplement to enhance a person’s physical or mental well being.Over the course of our lives…
XBOX Kinect Helps with Stroke Rehabilitation
Each year, two-thirds of the 700,000 Americans who survive a stroke each year require rehabilitation. But only one in three of those survivors actually do the at-home exercises recommended by…
Top Telehealth / mHealth Hiring Trends and Tips for Employers
While many people in the healthcare industry agree that telehealth is getting hotter every year, nothing is as good an indicator of that growth as growth in hiring. While many…
High Quality, Low Cost HealthCare Video Interview Series: Dr. James Spearman and TravelSurgeryUSA
Last week we heard Dr Stephen Schimpff talk about his ideas on reducing the costs of chronic disease, a huge contributor to global healthcare costs. This week, Dr James Spearman…
RSNA 2012: Some Gain in Detecting Pain to the Brain
Concussions are in the news. The impact on young athletes has received widespread recognition, but professional athletes are finally getting their due. The National Football League, under threat of lawsuits…
Top Ten HHS Management and Performance Challenges
The OIG produces its list of Top Management and Performance Challenges (TMC) every year, and to no one's surprise, implementation of health reform tops the list this year. The OIG…
