Restyling Electronic Medical Records
Electronic medical records (EMR) can be extremely useful tools to help improve patient care and reduce costs — if designed and used properly. But unfortunately, good design is hard to come by in this...
View ArticleDoctors Don’t Want Patients to Access EHR Info
Most U.S. Doctors Believe Patients Should Update Electronic Health Record, but Not Have Full Access to It, According to Accenture Eight-Country Survey March 4, 2013 – A new Accenture survey shows that...
View ArticleWhy Health Care Costs are Obscenely Expensive (Infographic)
Americans spend more on health care but live sicker and die younger. Why? We’ve published dozens of articles addressing that issue and have accumulated thousands of statistics in hundreds of...
View ArticleHow to Live Long and Healthy
Helen Weil, 92, and Henry Tornell, 94 (CBS NEWS from 60 Minutes segment on “Living to 90 and Beyond”) Until recently, very little was known about what it takes to live well into our 90s. That’s because...
View Article101 MiniTrends in Health Care
This image is from MiniTrends, a book by John Vanston that I strongly endorse. I’ve known John for years and did consulting work for his company, Technology Futures. His book inspired my Modern Health...
View ArticleRemote Patient Monitoring Platforms Emerge
Close to 100 million wearable remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices will ship over the next 5 years, according to ABI Research. This growth is boosted by the growing interest in moving healthcare...
View ArticlePatient Attitudes About Doctors and Healthcare
Patients don’t like their doctors. Why is that? That was the topic of a recent article by Peter Ubel at KevinMD.com that mentioned a New England Journal of Medicine article and included the table...
View ArticleWhen your medical care hurts, do you Yelp?
Health consumers want more transparency, so rating systems like Yelp, Angie’s List, the Surgeon Scorecard, or any other tool that helps the market better understand health care cost, quality and value...
View ArticleHow can we make healthcare more productive?
How can we make healthcare more productive? was the topic of a LinkedIn discussion started by Joe Flower, author of the book, “Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right For Half The Cost.” It generated...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Ways Tablets are Influencing Healthcare
Image Source: http://bitsofit.com/service/medical-practice-support/ Byline article by Jessica Oaks When it comes to embracing new technological solutions, healthcare tends to lead the way. [counter...
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