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…
Reimbursements: What Inaction Will Cause
Here we are again, about ready to end another year with absolutely no progress on changing the “sustainable growth rate,” or SGR which determines how much doctors receive for seeing…
First HHS Innovation Fellowships’ Meeting Focuses on New Measures of Quality in Healthcare
In its quest to find ways to reduce healthcare costs but boost healthcare quality, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched its first fellowship program in September. For the…
Tips for Working with Older Adults Who Hoard
Hoarding is a growing mental health problem among older adults in the United States. In fact, an estimated 1.5 to 3 million Americans are thought to struggle with hoarding. Hoarding…
HIPAA? Now HIMTA: The New mHealth Bill
HIMTA Bill HIMTA BillCongressman Mike Honda of Calif. introduced a new bill last Monday – The Healthcare Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act (HIMTA). According to Congress.gov, the bill will foster…
New Technology Could Become Best Defense for Fighting Infection
For centuries, epidemics from smallpox to polio have afflicted millions of people. Today is no different, with infections such as H1N1 (swine flu) or SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) causing…
Omada Health Takes the Diabetes Prevention Program Digital
The landmark Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on February 7, 2002, a bit more than a decade ago. It demonstrated conclusively…
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…
