Wellocracy Is Coming! Watch For It
After working at this remote patient monitoring game for about 10 years now, we are ready to bring self-care to consumers – couch potatoes, weekend warriors and all of us…
10 Online Reputation Management Tips for Physicians
The 21st century has brought an additional layer of complexity to being a successful doctor: maintaining a pristine online reputation for both yourself and your practice. And while this activity…
mHealthSummit 2012 – Coming Up Next Week!
From the mHealthSummit Website: From the mHealthSummit Website:"Where Technology, Business, Research and Policy Connect.The largest event of its kind, the 4th annual mHealth Summit brings together leaders in government, the private…
Why Have We Struggled So Hard to Improve Healthcare Quality?
There are many incredible efforts under way to drive needed change throughout the healthcare system. I love what Christensen and Hwang have proposed in Innovator’s Prescription. I have much respect for…
Science is Spooky–Thoughts from the Other Side of Reality
Science is spooky! Science is spooky!Today's big think is what Einstein called "spooky". I'm not sure if that was translated from the German or actually English but those are his…
Accutane Users Win Huge Verdict Against Roche. Who’s the Winner?
I was engaged in one of my pleasures, sitting in a coffee shop leafing through medical journals. Usually, I am perusing newspapers. I was engaged in one of my pleasures,…
What’s a “Good” Colonoscopy?
No bad jokes. I’m serious.I’ve reached the wonderful age at which I’m supposed to have this test as part of my general health care. I had one 10 or so…
The Thanksgiving Z-pack
Thanksgiving this year is likely to become one of my favorite holiday memories. My husband's niece, her husband, sister and fifteen-month-old daughter visited from Mississippi. We had a nice time…
Who is Susceptible to the Placebo Effect?
If I had to guess who is likely to benefit from the placebo effect of an analgesic drug it would somebody who is easily suggestible, probably having a “weak personality”…
Giving Thanks for Connections to a Healthy Future
Taking a moment to pause at this time of Thanksgiving, I wanted to share a recent interview with Kaiser Permanente CIO, Philip Fasano during the NASA mHealth workshop, about how…
