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…
More Access = Better Health?
Patients who have online access to their medical records and use email to communicate with their physicians are more likely to using traditional healthcare services, according to a recent study…
RSNA 12 Keynote Inspires – Challenge Radiology’s Status Quo
At yesterday’s opening keynote at RSNA 2012, RSNA President Dr. George Bisset issued a challenge to the specialty:“Our future depends on our capacity to develop shared ownership of patients’ needs…
Do We Need So Many Mammograms?
From the NEJM:We estimated that in 2008, breast cancer was over-diagnosed in more than 70,000 women; this accounted for 31% of all breast cancers diagnosed.Data for U.S. women 40+: From…
Medicare’s Sustainability and Disproportionate Impact on Women
In light of the recent election and the number of monumental decisions elected officials, government agencies, policymakers and health care providers have to make around health care reform, the Medicare…
How Computers Can Help Doctors to Improve Empathy
Many people are worried that the introduction of computers into medicine will further depersonalize clinical care . Their concern is that technology will disrupt the doctor-patient relationship because doctors will…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: India – Using eCompliance to Control Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis- TB is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that the WHO says infects one third of the world’s population. Between five and 10 percent of infected people develop the…
