As the healthcare evolves toward service-based models, providers increasingly look to balance service delivery demands while keeping their core medical values without yielding to an overburdened system's pressures.
Here’s a review of some challenges that chronic disease presents us with and a discussion of what kind of approach makes people healthier, happier, more productive and ultimately reduces their healthcare premiums, too.
Leveraging dedicated personal coaches and individualized content are the key ingredients of a successful health and wellness program.
One in four individuals in the United States suffer from mental illness. Mental health has traditionally been underfunded and its victims, over stigmatized. Many mental health conditions affect individuals living in impoverished, rural communities in which access to care is limited, if not completely unavailable. Although natural options can be extremely effective for prevention and […]
While most people limit themselves to searching for health information online, there's plenty of curiosity for telemedicine, remote monitoring and using texts and emails to get health info.
Healthcare dignity for sale.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Are wellness companies overselling biometrics?
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The Creating Health Collaborative was formed to understand why, despite their potential, broader definitions of health remain only a fringe of health innovation. In today’s post, I am sharing their first report (opens a PDF) and have reproduced below an edited version of what the Collaborative thought were the emerging principles for creating health. We […]
At a conference in San Diego this month, a keynote speaker asked how many people in the audience were wearing a fitness tracker. About a dozen people raised their hands. “It’s always the healthiest people you know who are wearing a FitBit,” GreatCall CEO David Inns said. “That’s not going to do anything to cut […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Health IT startups have lots of ideas about how Google Glass could be applied to medical care, from telemedicine to information sharing. But what about doctors? How are early adopters in medicine finding Glass useful, and what opportunities do they see for future applications? Stanford Medicine X brought together four physicians and an entrepreneur via […]
Dr. Steven Charlap founded MDPrevent, a preventive healthcare clinic in Florida. He wrote a detailed obituary of his startup for The Atlantic. He built a team that included a health psychologist, registered dietitian, exercise physiologist, yoga instructor, health educator and nurse practitioners. The plan was for a physician to complete an initial health risk assessment, […]
