Preparing for Hurricane Sandy Along the East Coast
By JENNIFER PRESTON By JENNIFER PRESTONWith the nation’s top weather officials saying there is now a 90 percent chance that Hurricane Sandy will slam into the East Coast early next…
Communicating via Patient Portal
It's Saturday night and I'm tying up loose ends, signing off patient referral letters, sending messages to staff to do on Monday and "playing" in the test environment of our…
Innovating Medicaid for Healthcare Reform
With two short weeks to go before an unprecedented presidential election, healthcare continues to remain on the forefront. And while most of the focus has been on healthcare delivery for…
Women’s Wellness Provisions Help Survivors of Domestic Violence
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the law that has launched a thousand headlines. Though certain features of the PPACA have generated a deafening buzz, there are…
Michigan Health Information Exchange (HIE) Invests in Secure Network
In order to ultimately improve patient care and reduce wasted resources, the healthcare industry continues to undergo its digital makeover in an effort to streamline their workflow and step into…
New Book Scheduled for Publication – Wireless Health:Remaking of Medicine by Pervasive Technologies
This is a new textbook editted by Mehran Mehregany for the Wireless Heal This is a new textbook editted by Mehran Mehregany for the Wireless Health course at Case Western Reserve University…
Two Reasons Good News From Medical Trials is Often Overturned Later
Medical trials that claim large effects from treatment are often followed by much less impressive results the more they are replicated or tried out in the real world. A new…
What to Buy to Prepare for an Emergency
As Marylanders batten the hatches for a hurricane, they’re hitting the grocery stores and big-box retailers in droves; it’s not uncommon to see checkout lines that are packed all the…
SocialQI: Simple Solutions for Improving Your Healthcare…
More and more over the past 5 months I have been answering the question of why I wrote this book – I guess this is a natural part of sharing…
Revolution in Medical Publishing- The Article of the Future
While some bemoan the downward trend in classic publishing and the supposed death of books, they will be replaced by a new, more dynamic medium, three dimensional with new…
