Although the school nurse is a familiar figure, school-based health care is unfamiliar territory to many medical professionals, operating in a largely separate health care universe from other community-based medical services. Now, as both schools and health care systems seek to ensure that children coping with chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma get the comprehensive, coordinated […]
A health IT company that has developed a cloud-based logistics tool to delivery physicians to patients' homes is raising $1.75 million.
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.
Rose Okoro, a nurse practitioner who specializes in family medicine, opened the Daystar Family Clinic in Katy, Texas, last October. Seven months later, she has only enough patients to work there part time. It is not because of demand but beca...
Imagine your loved one, lying in a hospital bed, unable to signal a nurse that she can’t breathe or is in pain. In healthcare facilities today, nurses are overworked and under informed through no fault of their own. They simply have no way to determine emergencies from non-emergencies without physically going into a person’s room. […]
Continuing the glasses theme in the Wearables Tourney, a company with a potential color blind treatment EnChroma faces a cure for creating human pin cushion and improving patient safety that is Evena Medical’s Eyes-On-Glasses technology, which seeks to help medical professionals identify good veins. EnChroma is really solving a quality of life problem. Developed by […]
The theme of this year’s American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) annual conference was “Inspiring Leadership.” Inspirational keynote speakers seemed to drive the message home for the CNOs and nurse managers in attendance. Below are some of the quotes that were heard repeated through the conference halls: 1. Robert Ballard, President, Institute for Exploration and […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Over the past 20 years, I’ve represented more than 300 healthcare providers before the various licensing boards. I’ve seen nurses accused of practicing medicine without a license for misunderstanding the dosage, nurses accused of neglect for failing to answer another nurse’s patient’s alarm like when the other nurse said she would answer it, and nurses […]
When I hear about hospitals and gaming, I tend to think of patients using apps to improve physical therapy or adherence. But one startup has developed a gaming platform to help figure out how to engage hospital employees with the goal of improving performance. GearFiveStudio’s AMPT application is highlighted in a Forbes article today. Co-founder […]
With HIMSS rapidly approaching, a new alliance between mobile health company Voalte and Motorola offers an interesting wrinkle to the ongoing Bring Your Own Device condundrum confronting hospitals. The deal expands Voalte’s customer base to Android customers through Motorola’s MC40 HC mobile phone. Although its platform was initially restricted to Blackberry in 2008, it has […]
It was a very brief 15 minutes but I had arrived early. There they were, sitting in our conference room, waiting to be interviewed for a residency position at our institution. They had come from far and wide: California, New York, Michigan, for instance – all dressed in their nicest suits or business attire – […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
As employers, hospitals weathered the recession better than most other industries. But now, shifting winds in healthcare delivery are creating a little storm of their own. Hospital job growth had some of its worst months in nearly a decade this year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That’s likely the reflection of a cloud […]
It’s Back to the Future, telemedicine style. The doctor with his black bag of remedies and devices knocking at your door for a house call is an old idea. But a tricked-out, high-tech ride brings a fresh, 21st century twist to that form of healthcare. Add the brains of University of Kansas students to resources […]
As hospitals look to reduce medical errors and speed up care delivery, innovative eyewear technology could make the task of finding appropriate veins for blood samples and medication delivery easier and safer. Evena Medical has developed eyewear with Epson that can see veins beneath the skin — Eyes-On-Glasses, according to a company statement. Evena initially […]
‘Alarming’ Physician Shortages Lie Ahead, according to a HealthLeaders headline that’s bound to raise your blood pressure. Chances are you’ve seen even scarier articles about the looming nursing shortage, with predictions of a shortage of hundreds of thousands of nurses in the coming decades. We do have serious doctor and nurse workforce issues in this […]
The November Health Affairs theme issue, Redesigning the Health Care Workforce, is especially good. Much of what I’ve seen written elsewhere on the topic focuses on alleviating a (purported) looming shortages of doctors or nurses by training more of them, or by having people with less training than doctors, e.g., NPs and PAs take on […]