Celebrate National Physician Assistant Week October 6-12
This week has been designated as National Physician Assistant Week, so LifeBridge…
Medical Ethics: Why I Wouldn’t Write a Prescription
Medical ethics is woven into the Whistleblower blog. I have presented vignettes…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Bringing Telemedicine to Remote Areas in Latin America
GlobalMed teamed up with several organizations from Aug. 21-25 to bring…
Implementing Innovative Value-Based Purchasing and Readmission Reduction Strategies
No longer is the clock ticking; rather the alarm has sounded and…
You Are Not Your Doctor’s Customer – But You Can Do Something About It
Our care is generally good in theUnited States but not as good…
A Primer on the Economic Levers CMS Has To Improve Patient Satisfaction
Effective this month, CMS will institute its Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program, changing…
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Nearly one quarter of women will experience abuse at the hands…
Appropriate Use of Medicines to Save Lives and Dollars
A new study, “Advancing the Use of Medicines: Applying Levers for Change,” highlights…
Person-Centered HealthCare: ClearHealthCosts Offers Cost Transparency
Everyone knows that cost transparency is sorely missing in healthcare. Where else…
America, “We’ve Lost a Pod”: What Romney and Obama Didn’t Say…
While polls immediately following Wednesday’s Presidential debate in Denver suggested that Mitt…