Can America’s Youth be a Focal Point for Bending Healthcare’s Cost Curve?
Analyzing healthcare data and trends is commonplace. From financial and reimbursement metrics to population data and engagement, our team is continually seeking ways to bring clarity to decision makers in…
Five Forces that will Change Healthcare Marketing
In the healthcare industry, powerful demographic, economic, societal, technology and legislative forces are converging to change the underlying basis for competition. For health systems, new economic models, disruptive technologies and…
The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
It’s hard to imagine how tough it can be to struggle without power, services, gasoline. And to not know if things will ever be normal again. How to get to…
Self Tracking
Susannah Fox remembers Tom Ferguson, MD who coined the term “participatory medicine”. Dr Ferguson passed away in 2006 but not before “ePatient” became adopted by bloggers and those involved in…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: The Real India – mHealth and Beyond
After spending 20 days on ground and while supporting some of the major initiatives in India, I realized that 25% of the total Income generated in India is in the…
Does Doctor to Doctor Communication Protect Patients?
One of the gripes that patients have about the medical profession is that we physicians don’t communicate sufficiently about our patients. In my view, this criticism is spot on. Patients…
NeuCare: Concierge Medicine
When I was little I cherished my Golden Books. I loved their compact shape and brightly colored pages. I would run my fingers over the shimmering gold covered spine of…
The Election and Sexual/Reproductive Health Choices: Teens, Get Voting!
Today I stumbled across this article written by Madeleine French in the UK Guardian, Oct 19th. It's a great summary of what direction adolescent sexual health could go, depending on who…
A March of Happiness:Million Puppet March
I have attended quite a few marches in DC. There are often yelling, chanting people delivering soapbox speeches. People press one upon the other, trying to stay upon the sidewalk…
Leaning Forward in Health Care
In a few short days, the presidential race will conclude, forever determining the fate of Mitt Romney and President Obama. With the weight of this decision comes potentially heady change…
