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…
Health Care Data Thieves Mainly Looking to Make Money
A Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report for the health care sector relieves that cybercriminals are generally seeking financial and personal information when they break into health care sites, rather than…
Reaching Prospective Medical Students Where They Are: Online
Today, Baylor College of Medicine – and 19 other institutions – is holding its second online student recruitment event. In terms of partnership, collaboration, and reach, the Biomedical Virtual Recruiting…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Mayo Clinic’s Three “P”s
Last week I attended the Mayo Clinic's Annual Social Media Summit in Rochester. What most impressed me had nothing to do with the conference. On Tuesday afternoon before the Summit…
Science for Sale: The Very Sad Case of Medtronic’s “Infuse”
Recently, I met with an Israeli naturopath who wanted to crowdfund his products on my new platform, Health Tech Hatch. After about 20 minutes of discussion, it was clear that…
Determining Paths of Research
As reported in this blog time and again, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease certainly understands and values the heavy burdens patients and providers alike have to take into consideration…
Does Your Hospital Stay in Touch with Patients All the Time?
According to a recent study, patients want their doctors to reach out to them proactively even when they aren’t sick. The study revealed that they want their physician to communicate…
Halloween Alert! Can You Really Be Scared to Death?
Halloween is just around the corner. And the Grim Reaper is lurking around the corner...I thought it might be fun to talk about the burst of fright that so closely follow that…
