It’s pretty clear by now that the healthcare industry is pushing away from disease-centered care and toward patient-centered care. But there are some key things that need to happen before patients will really be able to sit at the center of their healthcare experiences. On this week’s TEDMED Great Challenges live chat, panelists from various […]
Medical Googlers abound in the U.S., and the latest survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project is giving us a new look at who they are and what they’re doing with the information they find online. Pew surveyed 3,014 U.S. adults (on landlines and cellphones) to learn how they sought information about their […]
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Google may have given up on trying to get people to use personal health records, but startups sure haven’t. They’re making them mobile, embedding them into social platforms and now turning them into wallet-sized cards that doctors can swipe. LifeNexus, the maker of the personal health card that lets consumers carry their medical information with […]
We prefer it when they’re the ones who give us our flu shots, and we’ll trust them to tell us what we’re supposed to do after leaving the hospital or doctor’s office. That’s probably because Americans think nurses are more honest and ethical than any other professionals, including doctors, pharmacists and even police officers, according […]
This year in Twitter brought us that instantly famous photo of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, more than 20 million tweets about Superstorm Sandy and the hashtag #RoyalBaby. Among the highlights featured in Twitter’s annual roundup are two more significant examples that illustrate the power of social media in gathering the masses […]
Last week’s post on Misfit Wearables, the company that’s raised nearly $500,000 for its new activity tracker from a crowdfunding campaign, is just one illustration of what can happen when a lot of people each give a little bit. Everything from open data to reconstruction bras for breast cancer survivors is now finding early stage […]
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Two-thirds of the 700,000 Americans who have a stroke each year survive and require rehabilitation. But fewer than one in three post-stroke patients undergoing physical therapy perform the at-home exercises their physical therapists recommend. A team of researchers at Ohio State University is using a $653,000 grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to develop […]
How in tune are medical researchers with the patients who will eventually use the products, services and methods they develop? Healthcare research powerhouse Regenstrief Institute says consumers’ voices are typically underrepresented in scientific research, and it wants to shore up that communication gap. With the inaugural People’s Choice for Healthcare Delivery Contest, the institute is […]
This infographic should be all physicians need to glance at to really welcome Health IT into their practices and as an overarching philosophy informing patient care. It comes courtesy of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation.
Patients today are demanding more: More access to their health data, more ways to connect with their physicians, more price transparency. They’re also demanding – and delivering – something much more basic: more comfortable and dignified clothing to make their medical conditions feel, well, less like medical conditions. A slick-looking insulin pump and various efforts […]
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
Women make up only a small fraction of executives in the healthcare industry. But one place where they do have a striking presence is on social media – they account for 62 percent of Twitter users, 60 percent of DocStoc users and 58 percent of Facebook users. You’d have no trouble finding thought-provoking women in […]
Nearly 73 percent of Americans visited a medical provider in 2010, but they went significantly less often than they did 10 years ago. A new report of Census Bureau data (PDF) issued yesterday examined relationships between Americans’ health statuses, insurance coverage, demographic characteristics and use of healthcare services using data from the Survey of Income […]
Healthcare consumers are about as satisfied with their last visits to the doctors as they are with their last hotel stays, car purchases and department store visits. It could be worse, right? But it also could be better. Consumers’ decisions are becoming increasingly powerful, and physicians should be concerned about some of the disparities between […]
Read about the popular online data-sharing e-patient community PatientsLikeMe that has secured $2 million in new investments from unknown investors.
I recently saw a statistic from my friends at Rock Health that said that women comprise only 4% of healthcare industry CEOs. For those of you who are slow at math, this means that 96% of the people running pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare IT, healthcare service, provider system, health insurance and all of the other […]