Mobile Technology Is Transforming The Health Industry

  Mobile Technology Is Transforming The Health Industry, But To What Extent? Dave Chase Technology is in the process of bringing change to every piece of the health industry — wellness, fitness, healthcare, medicine — you name it. And as it always seems with introduction of new technologies, it’s awe-inspiring how quickly they can transform entire industries yet, at the same time, make us realize just how far we have to go (or how far behind we really are). The health industry has been touched (and defined) by cutting-edge technology for years, yet its relics, legacy infrastructure, paper-pushing, and archaic procedures are as obvious today as ever before. Mobile Technology for health  can be classified in two categories: Physician...

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Social Media in a Hospital Bed

  No this post is not about pubescent hormonal hyper sexuality nor the story about the sex life of fan boys or fan girls,  G+strings,, or tantalizing twitter tweepes. It is a story about Fred and Regina Holladay and their experience (bad) when Fred was diagnosed with advanced Renal Cancer. Dr. to Dr. View more presentations from Regina Holliday The program is self-explanatory and does not require expansion here. del.icio.us Tags: hospitals,social media,healthcare,cancer,twitter,facebook,Google plus...

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Bold New Approach to Funding Medical School Tuition

  Over the past ten years both college and medical school tuitions have increased in some cases four times. This has effected college graduates and physicians. Tuition at the state run UC system in 2001-2002 was $ 3429 and has risen to  $13,200 per year. This places an extraordinary debt burden on students at a time when they have little income. In California which has faced the perfect storm of decreasing revenues in the face of economic distress Chris Occasion, President of the FixUCR movement at the University of California presented a manifesto Their manifesto is the UC Student Investment Proposal, which calls for eliminating the upfront costs of college and having working graduates pay 5 percent of their salary back to the...

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5% of patients account for half of health care spending

USA TODAY reports that 22 % of healthcare spending is from less than 1% of patients.(2009). That's about $90,000 per person, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. U.S. residents spent $1.26 trillion that year on health care. Five percent accounted for 50% of health care costs, about $36,000 each, the report said. Why is this number so important? According to AHRQ the report showed how a tiny segment of the population can drive health care spending and that efforts to control cost should focus on this segment to improve efficiency using new technology, outcome studies, About one in five health care consumers remained in the top 1% of spenders for at least two consecutive years, the report showed. They tended to be white,...

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C.E.S. & Health Train Express in Vegas

  Monday January 9 2012 marked the opening of the Consumer Entertainment Show in Las Vegas. Among the carnival-like presentations both on the exhibit floor and in conference were many medical applications in hardware and software.  After all,, medical practices and physicians are consumers. Connectivity is high on the list of presentations.. Physical security of the mobile hand held devices was important, however the real value is the software and data in the device. Consumer oriented health monitors were also on the list: This one is from Zensorium. and intended for iOS. (iPhone) RFID for security is available with small tags on laptop cases, smartphones, iPads and the like “Tags” are available for pets and even children to keep...

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Senior Citizens on the Health Train

GeriPal (blog) POGOe – Portal of Geriatric Online Education (clinical resource) Geriatric Nursing (podcast) CareGiving (community site) The American Geriatrics Society Like (Facebook group) Wen Dombrowski MD (Twitter) American Geriatrics (Twitter) GeriPsych Consult (mobile app) Health AGEnda (blog) John A. Hartford Foundation (Youtube) Senior citizens are getting much attention from politicians and health care professionals. Deservedly so since they are the unfortunate who are involuntarily ‘consuming’ health care. It’s the nature of aging and human life. No one wants to be ill or infirm. The term “consumers of health care’ implies that healthcare is produced, or that health itself is produced. Perhaps that is what preventive medicine,...

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Is 2012 The New Era for Health Train Express?

Val Jones MD, perhaps the empress of health social media, and Better Health has announced her discontinuation of posting blogs on Better Health LLC. She however indicated the continuation of the brand as a platform for Grand Rounds and for her use of it as her personal consulting platform. Dr Jones, along with others, has been a visionary and developed considerable credibility with early backing from Revolution Health and Steve Case’s interest in health reform.  Her success required considerable investment of time, resources and the generous support of many silent investors, physicians, nurses and medical journalists.   She innovated aggregation of gifted medical writers into a visible public platform for medical news. There...

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