At the Stanford Medicine X conference, Dana Lewis, a vocal diabetes e-patient announced a research study funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that she leads as principal investigator.
I am an eternal optimist and I’m hoping that the social value inherent in investing in healthcare instead of video games and drones can help me put a few points on the Santa board.
In a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET, Aneesh Chopra will moderate a discussion with executives from DocuSign, Velatura, and behavioral health providers on eConsent, health information exchange and compliance with the CMS Final Rule on interoperability.
Communication is an evergreen problem in healthcare. Whether the problem is a patient with low health literacy or a doctor who can’t explain complicated subjects in a simple way, important messages do not get from one person to the other. There have been many efforts to get doctors to communicate in a more direct, less […]
If I didn’t know several people who fit this trend, I wouldn’t believe that many millennials are completely uninterested in driver’s licenses and owning a car. I listened to an interview this morning about how car makers are trying to change this attitude. Noah Nelson of Turnstyle News and NPR’s Sonari Glinton talked with technologists […]
A new survey finds that doctors’ websites are woefully lacking when it comes to serving patients. No surprises there – after all, the most commonly used technology in a doctor’s office is still the fax machine. Here are the details of the survey conducted by medical marketing firm Vanguard Communications which analyzed 300 doctors with […]