Person-Centered HealthCare: Cost Transparency Helps Patients Shop For Medical Care
Two relatively new services are facilitating a market for medical services — with price and quality competition, as well as transparency. We have previously reported on MediBid, which takes a…
Why Hospitals Need to Think Globally
The United States has long been a melting pot of cultures, beliefs, and languages, and U.S. healthcare organizations regularly encounter the diversity that exists across this small, blue planet. The…
Almost Anybody Qualifies for Medicaid in Maine
Except poor people:Frustrated MaineCare eligibility workers complained that rich Mainers —”even millionaires” — qualify instantaneously for the program’s most expensive long-term care (LTC) benefit using “Medicaid-compliant annuities.” Nearly $6 million…
Doctors 2.0 & You Helps ePatients Tell Their Story.
Hello Everyone. As you may know, I am an American in Paris working in healthcare social media and organizing. Thanksgiving is not a holiday outside the US and Canada*. Hello Everyone. As…
Remote Area Medical (RAM) Coming to New York With Free Clinics December and Food and Supplies for New Jersey After Thanksgiving Holiday
This message is their first effort of filling up a 53 foot trailer with donations. Here’s the information on how and what to donate as the truck will leave Monday…
Engage With Grace
As patients, as family members, as friends, as health care providers, we have all faced end-of-life issues at one time or another, and we will face them again. And again. Having…
The NFL Has Converted to an EHR System. What About You?
If you’re a football fan, it seems like every week another star player has been injured from head trauma – specifically concussions. The NFL even came out with a huge…
What Thanksgiving Dinner is Going to Do to You…and What You Can Do About It.
Ok, here is some pre-work for you as you prepare for your annual Thanksgiving stuffing (pun intended). Thanks to TDWI writer, Dr. Kevin Campbell, for sharing what that meal…
How To: Take Advantage of Social Media at #RSNA12
James Mignano, Digital Media Assistant, Carestream James Mignano, Digital Media Assistant, CarestreamThe Radiological Society of North America’s Annual Meeting (RSNA) is a big event, located in a bustling city. Attendance…
Tips for Hosting an Age-friendly Thanksgiving Dinner
Between coordinating travel plans, cooking, cleaning, and throwing a cast of personalities into one room, anxieties can run high around Turkey Day. If you are entertaining a mixed age group…
