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| Aug 27, 2025 | The Salem Pain Clinic in Canada is Advancing Multimodal Therapy for Fibromyalgia and Neuropathic Pain; Per Research Data | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
Salem Pain Clinic’s Multimodal Therapy Programs Improve Function for Fibromyalgia and Neuropathic Pain Patients, According To Research Data; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
For fibromyalgia and neuropathic pain, there is no one-size... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | The Salem Pain Clinic in Canada Provides Multimodal Therapy for Myofascial and Spinal Pain, According to Research Data | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
The Salem Pain Clinic’s Multimodal Therapy Provides Effective Relief for Myofascial and Spinal Pain According To Research Data; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Pain is complex; but our multimodal therapies provide comprehensive, per... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | The Salem Pain Clinic in Surrey Canada Ensures Accessible Pain Care for Every Patient; According to Research Data | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
The Salem Pain Clinic in Surrey, Canada, Offers Equitable Comprehensive Pain Care to Every Community Member That Needs Treatment; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Pain doesn’t discriminate, and neither should access to care: at our cli... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | The Salem Pain Clinic in Surrey Canada is Redefining Pain Care for Patients, Families, Workers and Society; Per New Data | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade.
The Salem Pain Clinic Provides Research-Backed and Evidence-Based Holistic Pain Management Beyond Symptom Relief; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Healing pain is more than reducing discomfort; it’s about restoring lives, protecting f... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | The Salem Pain Clinic in Canada Uses Demographics-Targeted Therapies To Enhance Outcomes and Safety; Per New Research | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade.
Gender-Targeted and Age-Targeted Therapies Offer Precision Care For Substance Misuse Therapy; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, BC, Canada
When we tailor care to gender and age, we don't just treat the patient; we p... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | The Salem Pain Clinic in Surrey Canada is Enhancing Patients’ Recovery and Societal Safety; According to New Research | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
The Salem Pain Clinic is Advancing Individual’s Recovery, Partnership Responsibility, and Public Safety; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
We manage pain to restore lives, rebuild families, and protect the public because responsible c... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | The Salem Pain Clinic in Canada Provides Effective Steroid-free or Steroid Injection Therapy for Pain; Per New Research | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
The Salem Pain Clinic Offers Precision Pain Management Using Steroid or Steroid-Free Injection Therapies; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Each patient's pain is unique, and so is our approach; hence, we provide steroid or steroid-free... |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Pain Clinics Provide Enterprise-wide Risk Management Per New Research; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Pain Clinics Bridge Occupational Health, Safety, and Organizational Resilience; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, BC, Canada.
Pain clinics are partners in enterprise-wide risk management, safeguarding livelihoods, wo... |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Pain Clinics Enable Insurance Efficiency According To New Research; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade.
Pain Clinics Enhance The Insurance Process Toward Safer Clients, Workplaces, and Communities; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, BC, Canada
By aligning care with claims, pain clinics help insurers close cases efficie... |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Pain Clinics Promote Medicolegal Collaboration According To New Research; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
Pain Clinics are Bridging Healthcare, Law, and Public Safety; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, BC, Canada
Through medicolegal collaboration, pain clinics turn clinical insight into safer roads, families, and workp... |
| Aug 24, 2025 | Pain Clinics Promote Road Safety According To New Research; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
New Research Shows That Pain Clinics Enhance Driving Towards Road Safety; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, BC, Canada
By managing medications, restoring function, and supporting recovery, pain clinics relieve suffer... |
| Aug 24, 2025 | Pain Clinics Strengthen Family Well-being According To New Research; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade.
Pain Clinics Heal Beyond the Patient By Strengthening Family Well-being and Safety; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, BC, Canada
By treating chronic pain and substance misuse, pain clinics protect not only patients ... |
| Aug 24, 2025 | Pain Clinics Enhance Workplace Safety According To New Research; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Pain Clinics Safeguard Workplaces and Promote Occupational Safety; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, BC, Canada
Pain clinics restore more than health; they help employees return to work safely and protect workplaces ... |
| Aug 24, 2025 | Pain Clinics Promote Societal and Public Safety According To New Research; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
Pain Clinics Heal Individuals Thereby Protecting Communities And Societies; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic, BC, Canada
When pain is treated responsibly, everyone benefits; at home, at work, and on the road”
— Dr.... |
| Jul 12, 2025 | The Compassionate Crossroad of Value-Based Care, MAiD and Multimodal Pain Therapy; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
Reaffirming the ethics of compassionate medicine, value-based care, MAiD, and multimodal pain management; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
In a compassionate health system, value-based care ensures that pati... |
| Jul 12, 2025 | Airway and Breathing Care Lessons During COVID-19 Towards Enhancing Value-Based Healthcare; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade.
A Case for Safer Systems in Value-Based Healthcare Delivery From Airway and Breathing Care Lessons During COVID-19; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
In value-based care, even the rarest complications matter b... |
| Jul 12, 2025 | Protecting Doctors from Extortion, Coercion, and Harassment in Pain Clinic; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
Safeguarding healthcare by protecting physicians from extortion, coercion, and harassment in pain clinic settings; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
When patients weaponize desperation and institutions weapon... |
| Jul 12, 2025 | Advancing Health Workforce Development Through Open Science and UN SDG 3 Goals; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Using open science and UN SDG 3 goals to lead evidence-based transformation of the health workforce; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
Knowledge must flow freely if health systems are to grow wisely”
— Olumuyiw... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Specialist Pain Clinics and Addiction Care Service Need Robust Primary Healthcare; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Promoting specialist pain clinics and addiction treatment services through stronger primary healthcare; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
When chronic pain patients lack stable primary care, it causes fragmente... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Reimagining Sickle Cell Arthropathy Care Through Value-Based Care Delivery; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
Value-based healthcare can enable timely and optimal sickle cell arthropathy surgical care; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
When health systems delay action, patients lose function; value-based care deliver... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Advancing Health Workforce Development Through Research Mentorship and Evidence-Based Management; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Research Mentorship and Evidence-Based Management Promotes Healthcare Workforce Development and Sustainability; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
Research mentorship is not just about guiding inquiry; it's abou... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Reframing Chronic Pain, Suffering, Dignity, and MAiD; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade.
Chronic pain patients are reframing chronic suffering, dignity, and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD); Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
If we are to offer dignity in dying, we must first ensure dignity in li... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Lidocaine Swallow Enables Value-Based Pain Relief in Chronic Esophageal Disorders; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
Lidocaine swallow provides innovative value-based care for chronic severe painful prolonged esophageal disorders; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
True innovation in healthcare is not always high-tech; it’s ... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Enabling Value-Based Healthcare Through Simple Options Like Using Topical Cream For Facemask Comfort; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Value-based healthcare can be enabled by simple innovations like facial topical creams to promote facemask compliance. Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic
Small, low-cost innovations, like simple facial cream, can quiet... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Leveraging ADHD Neurobiological Insights to Drive Value-Based Healthcare; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade
Synthesizing ADHD etiology, neurobiology, and treatment innovations can promote value-based care for ADHD patients; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
Transforming ADHD care through neuroscience isn't just a med... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Aligning Obstructive Sleep Apnea Care with Value-Based Healthcare Goals; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade .
Bridging Gaps Between the Clinical Care of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Value-Based Healthcare Principles; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
Standardizing care for obstructive sleep apnea isn’t just a clinical... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Advancing Value-Based Healthcare Through Insight on HCN Channelopathy in Epilepsy; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic | Olumuyiwa Bamgbade.
How molecular or basic science research promotes value-based healthcare management of complex epileptic syndromes; Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, Salem Pain Clinic Canada
Uncovering the role of HCN channelopathies in epilepsy moves... |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Using Generative AI to Streamline Clinician Workflow and Reduce Burnout | Dr. Ravindra Patil, Sr. Director of Data Science at Tredence
Clinician stress rose significantly during the pandemic but has remained high even as COVID-19-related patient volumes and illness severity have subsided. In 2021, 62.8% of U.S. p... |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage | The pressures of the last three and a half years have affected every corner of the health care landscape, but nowhere is the effect more evident than the country’s physician workforce. Burnout, staffing shortages, financial challenges, admi... |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Betting On The Promise Of AI, Hint Health Announces New OpenAI Collaboration | medical consultation with female doctorgetty |
| Aug 1, 2023 | The real costs of the new Alzheimer's drug, Leqembi — and why taxpayers will foot much of the bill | The first drug purporting to slow the advance of Alzheimer's disease is likely to cost the U.S. health care system billions annually even as it remains out of reach for many of the lower-income seniors most likely to suffer from dementia.
M... |
| Jul 14, 2023 | Data 360 and Hip Hop Education Center Celebrate Hip Hop 50 With Hackathon Dedicated To Preserving Hip Hop Landmarks | Data 360 and Hip Hop Education Center Celebrate Hip Hop 50 With Hackathon Dedicated To Preserving Hip Hop Landmarks "This is a unique opportunity for individuals from different backgrounds and parts of the world to come together to sha... |
| May 17, 2023 | Health Tech: Why Design Matters and Ease of Use is Everything | Jon Zimmerman, CEO of Holon Solutions
Today, patient data and patient information are essential components of delivering the best care. As healthcare expands beyond physical clinical settings and into digital channels, the need for data-dri... |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Healthcare Delivery Is Sending Primary Care Physicians To The Sidelines. That Leaves A Bad Prognosis For An Aging, Unhealthy Nation | PICO RIVERA-CA-AUGUST 31, 2021: Physician Marie Flores, right, high-fives a patient at an AltaMed ... [+] clinic. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Los Angeles Times via Getty Images |
| Jan 18, 2021 | To Improve Healthcare For Older Adults, Look To Geriatrics | The specialty of geriatrics can be a path to better healthcare for older Americans in the United ... [+] States.ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Jan 14, 2021 | At the height of digital wellness, are we missing the human touch? | I think back to a recent experience my son and I had at a doctor’s office. When we entered the waiting room, we exchanged quick, nervous glances with the other patients in the space before checking in online. Our only human interaction was ... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome. This Is How I Have Sex | This Is How We Do It
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic condition that affects the large intestine. It typically causes abdominal cramping and pain, bloating and gassiness, and either const... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | I have all the symptoms of a Covid-19 long-hauler — but I’m hesitant to identify myself as one | As a physician, I never thought that I would someday be lumped into the category of patients known as “not otherwise specified,” or NOS for short. This category is dominated by women suffering nonspecific symptoms that are inconsistently ap... |
| Jun 1, 2020 | Resident physicians should have a say in their working conditions | In Chicago’s South Loop, the nightly salutation to health care workers begins at 8 p.m., first with a few flashing lights from old holiday decorations, followed by a cacophony of car horns, boomboxes blaring ’90s rock, and metal railings be... |
| May 21, 2020 | Calling health care workers ‘heroes’ harms all of us | Here’s an unjust fact: Some of the frontline health care workers we’ve been celebrating with social media likes, sidewalk chalk, and asynchronous concerts are getting pay cuts and losing their jobs.
And here’s an unwelcome observation: A wo... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | #MiamiTech Startup Spotlight: Pandemic brings big need for Brave Health's virtual mental healthcare | Facebook
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While Coronavirus ravishes through the country and leaves millions unemployed, some startups are struggling to stay afloat, but for a select few, the pandemic has he... |
| Feb 17, 2020 | Why medical school should start at age 28 | American medicine is at a crossroads as doctors begin to reject a cruel, exhausting educational model and a minefield-ridden practice landscape. Hands wring over the worsening physician shortage, yet little happens to ease physicians’ admin... |
| Jan 13, 2020 | The Boldest Healthcare Prediction For 2020: Business As Usual | Getty |
| 2020 | Health IT predictions for 2020: Trust takes center stage | Looking forward to 2020, the most important new voice on this topic will be the consumer. After the government has regulated, and the industry has responded to make healthcare data even more accessible and portable, we will see how consumer... |
| Mar 8, 2019 | Make the Step 1 test for medical students pass/fail | “Are you OK?” a medical school classmate asked when I snuck back into the lecture hall. I had just learned that I bombed arguably the most important test of my life. I was not OK. I was employing every technique I could muster so I wouldn’t... |
| Aug 21, 2018 | Healing the ‘moral injury’ of clinicians will take a village | When two physicians wrote recently in STAT that their colleagues aren’t burning out but are instead suffering from “moral injury,” they struck a nerve. Thousands of physicians across the country talked about it on social media and discussio... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Ireland decides it doesn't want Apple's $14.5 billion | The country is appealing the decision by the European Commission earlier this week
If someone said they wanted to give you $14.5 billion, you'd take it. You wouldn't even think about it. The immediate answer would be, "Yes, please.&quo... |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Here’s an idea that shouldn’t be radical: There can be joy in practicing medicine | It was the talk of joy that surprised me most during my first week of training as a resident physician.
Most of orientation was devoted to priming me and my fellow residents for the dual responsibility of being both learners and employees o... |
| May 24, 2016 | Why Your Patient Portal Strategy Should Embrace Both Consumers & Patients | Patient engagement is easy, right? Just create a portal and tell patients it’s there.
Of course, no one who puts a little thought into this idea believes it can be so simple. Healthcare isn’t “Field of Dreams,” after all. We can build it. T... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | Morning Read: Raise your hand if you love Obamacare more (in the Democratic presidential debates) | There was some meat in this discussion: Sanders released his own healthcare reform plan which seems to increase costs for both the middle class and richest Americans. How the Democratic presidential nominee looks at Obamacare (dramatically ... |
| Jan 13, 2016 | Смерть стартапа: Американский врач о своём опыте работы по модели On-Demand Статьи редакции | Американский врач Джей Паркинсон написал заметку о том, как он в 2007 году попытался работать по модели On-Demand, посещая пациентов по их запросу, что из этого получилось и почему такая модель ведения бизнеса не имеет перспектив на медицин... |
| Jan 13, 2016 | Why Apple and Google are good for healthcare… and Uber is not. | When discussing Silicon Valley’s entrance into the healthcare landscape, the consensus was that Apple’s, and particularly Google’s, presence is a good thing.
“They’ll push interoperability, and if they’re successful, there will be a rising ... |
| Dec 30, 2015 | 18 must-follow Twitter accounts about health and medicine | At this time of year, “best of” lists abound: the top-selling books; the highest-impact papers; the 10 biotech stocks that most exceeded expectations.
This is not one of those lists.
Here at STAT, we’ve compiled a list of Twitter feeds to f... |
| Dec 24, 2015 | Morning Read: KaloBios faces delisting; Leidos gets extra DoD EHR contract | LIFE SCIENCES
Immunotheraphy company Agenus has acquired PhosImmune, which has been developing a new portfolio of cancer neoantigens. — Business Wire
Biotech startup GenSpera has raised $2.5 million in private equity to a Phase II study of ... |
| Nov 23, 2015 | Morning Read: The Pfizer Allergan merger is a go. How dirty do you feel? | TOP STORIES
There’s not much new in the announcement just minutes ago about the $160 billion Pfizer Allergan merger. But the more I read the more I feel the need to shower again this morning. To believe the press clippings, there is no adva... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Morning Read: UnitedHealth may say goodbye to Obamacare exchanges; more on Pfizer’s $150B Allergan merger | And this from CEO Stephen Hemsley: “In recent weeks, growth expectations for individual-exchange participation have tempered industrywide, cooperatives have failed, and market data has signaled higher risks and more difficulties while our o... |
| Oct 8, 2015 | Morning Read: Obama to sit down with biopharma CEOs to talk Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement | LIFE SCIENCES
CytomX Therapeutics, the South San Francisco, CA-based drug maker raised $80 million in its initial public offering – despite not having any drugs in clinical trials currently. – Xconomy
A media makerover is coming for Martin ... |
| Sep 17, 2015 | Morning Read: GE Healthcare remains part of GE, GOP candidates avoid Obamacare | – Reuters
Obamacare got a break in last night’s GOP presidential debate. Also, most of the presidential candidates stood tall on the vaccines issue, while doing enough wiggling and dancing on the topic to remind us they are all politicians.... |
| Sep 7, 2015 | Remember, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has done absolutely nothing (so far) | But essay author Dr. Paul Marantz, the director of the Center for Public Health Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, melts the connection: the finding is not a breakthrough, the research was going on long before the ALS Ice Buck... |
| Jul 8, 2015 | Doctors aren’t necessarily big fans of medical shows and movies. Here are a few reasons why. | The next one would probably be true in her consideration of Nurse Jackie, too, despite the fact the show has been regularly praised for its accurate depiction of nursing.
House MD: You just cannot be addicted to painkillers and still employ... |
| Jul 6, 2015 | Morning Read: Insurers are planning rate increases of 20%-40% in 2016 | A nurse in Cleveland Clinic’s Neurointensive Care Unit designed a study tracking 600 patients that showed people with brain injuries benefit from moving around early into their recovery. Patients who started their rehabilitation earlier spe... |
| May 4, 2015 | Myriad Genetics’ many challenges, a decision looms on who gets the name Merck (Morning Read) | LIFE SCIENCE
Siemens was under investigation last year in China for bribery.
Generics beat brand names again. This time, it’s drugs that lower risk of transplant rejections.
THIS. “Generic Vicodin’s ranking as the drug most widely prescribe... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | Crazy eyeball innovations, Hep C’s big Medicare price tag and a beautiful patient story (Morning Read) | Get ready to talk all your non-healthcare buddies down about futuristic eye innovations. It’s going very public very fast. Last week, we discussed 3D printed eyes with WiFi. Now people are talking about injecting eyes with night vision, and... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Proposed changes to VA healthcare, Andrew Witty has less money and still no Obamacare backup (Morning Read) | Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Harold Varmus go deeper on the precision medicine initiative.
Ultimately, we will need to evaluate the most promising approaches in much larger numbers of people over longer periods. Toward this end, we envisage ... |
| Aug 8, 2014 | What main stream media misses in the MOC debate | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
This morning the American Board of Medical Specialties’ (ABMS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program debate reached a larger mainstream media audience when the Wall Street Journalpublished their article by... |
| Jun 19, 2014 | J&J early stage collaborations span 3D printing for orthopedics, brown fat, biosensors | Brown fat as metabolic disorder treatment: Unlike normal fat cells, brown fat cells convert energy from food into heat. Brown fat has been a growing source of interest among scientists as a source of potential therapeutics for obesity and m... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | Hear That Rumble? It’s Called Direct Primary Care & It’s Gaining Momentum | In a recent Forbes article, Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute cited the following growth stats of concierge practices:
Even before Obamacare, direct-pay practices were growing in popularity. According to the Center for Studying ... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Lack of Listening is the Core Problem in American Health Care | The Crisis in Primary Care – Part 4
There is and will be a need for many more primary care physicians (PCPs).Why? There is a shortage now and it will be exacerbated in the coming years for at least four reasons. The population is growing, t... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Beyond Google Glass hype. Is this a real-world way to use glass in healthcare? | In a phone interview with Remedy co-founder Gina Siddiqui, she talked a little about pilot programs with hospitals and health systems, including Cambridge Health Alliance. The focus is patients who need surgical consults — high acuity patie... |
| Apr 7, 2014 | Why Is There A Critical Shortage of Primary Care Physicians? | About 25,000 new graduates enter medical practice each year. This represents an increase of about 3% per year while the general population has been growing about 1% per year. Today there are about 29 physicians for every 10,000 population a... |
| Mar 14, 2014 | New Mexico startup looks to bring to market a drug to stop brain injury during stroke | Between 80 and 90 percent of strokes are caused by blood clots that interrupt blood flow to the brain. tPA, the only FDA-approved drug for stroke, dissolves that clot and restores blood flow to the brain. But it’s used cautiously by medical... |
| Mar 8, 2014 | EMR & The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | Stage 1 Meaningful Use
So, Stage 1 goals for all participants are primarily informational such as recording and maintaining an active medication list, an active allergy list, vital signs, and height and weight, BMI and growth charts for chi... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | A magnet-based approach to optimizing stroke treatment snags $1.3M from St. Louis investors | There’s an FDA-approved treatment for ischemic strokes, but it comes with some baggage. The issue is that tPA, a thrombolytic agent that dissolves clots and restores blood flow to the brain, is supposed to be administered within three to fo... |
| Jan 29, 2014 | The pros and cons of the use of text messages between healthcare providers and patients | As a healthcare provider, do you give your personal mobile number if a patient asks for it? Why or why not?
Dr. Remo Aguilar (@bonedoc) of #HealthXPh wrote about this very question in 2011 here. Has his answer changed since then? We will fi... |
| Jan 7, 2014 | Is the medical blog-o-sphere slowly dying? | Gone are the days of the annual “best” Medical Blog Awards. Gone are the most of the exceptional story tellers. Gone are many case studies as legal, HIPAA and corporate gag orders loom large over online medical content. Sure, some stay beca... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | With Obamacare: Remember the Challenger | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
By now, the Obamacare insurance exchange debacle is old news. Our attention spans are so short, we’re on to the next disaster. So we sit before our TVs and enjoy the Humana ads with a smiling senior pointing to... |
| Oct 23, 2013 | What doctors can learn from Malcolm Gladwell | Or, as Pho puts it:
Imagine if more physicians could use the power of story to explain why, say, patients don’t necessarily need antibiotics for their cold. Or why getting that PSA test in an 80-year-old man isn’t necessarily a good idea.
B... |
| Aug 26, 2013 | A healthcare innovator’s guide to must-know tech terms for the next decade of medicine | Predictive analytics tools that use data to help healthcare administrators identify high-risk patients and make efficient decisions are already in place in many hospitals. Now companies are developing decision support tools for clinicians t... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | Medical scribe vendor raises $2.5M, says it’s a good time for business | As the majority of providers continue to push forward with EMR implementation, scribes can take some of the administrative workload off of physicians’ shoulders, allowing them to spend more quality time with patients. And as patient satisfa... |
| May 13, 2013 | Physician blogger insights on social media | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
A recent e-mail exchange between myself (WGF) and fellow-physician bloggers John M. Mandrola MD (JMM), Edward J Schloss MD (EJS) and Ves Dimov MD (VDMD) resulted in some interesting insights about how physician... |
| May 1, 2013 | Docs: EHRs help with remote access to records, flagging potential medical errors (infographic) | Whether they like them or not, seven in 10 office-based physicians now use EHRs, according to data from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. A smaller number (40 percent) report having an EHR system that... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Ten simple social media rules for doctors | The American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards have gotten together and published a position paper on how doctors should behave on the “new frontier” of the Internet. At 14 pages and nearly 6,000 words, this i... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Biomarkers for all | Just about any measurable molecule that changes with health and disease could be a biomarker.
(David Guo’s Master/Flickr)
By Tom Ulrich
Your doctor has a lot of tools to detect, diagnose and monitor disease: x-rays, MRIs, angiography, blood... |
| Nov 30, 2012 | Just say no to linking doctor pay to patient satisfaction scores | In fact, on a list of well-meaning but really dumb reform ideas, linking compensation of hospitals (or doctors) to patient satisfaction scores ranks near the top. Let me tell you why I think this way. It involves an important baddie – overt... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | PimpMyWaitingRoom, iTestLess and 6 more mobile health apps that patients need now | 1) iCanHearYouNow – This app will send out an interference signal that, for 15 minutes, blocks doctors’ ability to pre-judge your diagnosis and then zone out to think about golf or their stock portfolio; it effectively renders them incapabl... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | Vascular device company raising $10 million to launch blood clot removal system for DVT | Location: Reno, Nevada, and Melbourne, Florida
Solution/Product: The company’s current focus is commercializing a catheter-based product line for removal of blood clots in vessels in the head and neck of patients with deep vein thrombosis a... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Khan Academy Inspires Flip of Doctor-Patient Relationship Model | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | Morning Read: Study finds meds via microchip works well | One doctor is urging his colleagues to jump into the world of social media with Google+ instead of Twitter or Facebook.
Dr. Criag Koniver argues on kevinmd.com that Google’s circles and hangouts are a safe and practical way to connect with ... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | Communication is the Most Important Medical Instrument | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Why It’s Good News HealthIT is So Bad | Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal & relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthc... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | Klout’s top social media influencers in medicine | Suffice it to say, the two categories are similar, yet somehow different. The same person sits atop both lists: superstar blogger Kevin Pho, a New Hampshire physician who’s risen to prominence on the back of his KevinMD blog, which he marke... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Top 10 science and clinical innovation trends: Looking forward to 2012 | (Michael Knowles/Flickr)
By Nancy Fliesler
Here once again is Vector’s take on some exciting trends we’ve been watching in the pediatric health arena and what we expect to see more of this year. If you’ve got others to propose, scroll to th... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Who are Klout’s Top 10 healthcare social media ‘influencers’? | Plus, regardless of whether the Klout score has any basis in reality, the company is obviously on to something. Online reputation is going to be “enormous,” according to a Twitter executive, and it’s likely that someday people will be paid ... |
| Dec 26, 2011 | Obamacare’s slow fade into the sunset? (Morning Read) | Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about healthcare.
Is the Affordable Care Act finished? Forbes’ Rick Ungar says the federal government’s decision to give states most of the power in deciding what benefits i... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | The 50 best Cleveland Clinic doctors. Ever. | Ranking the greatest doctors over 90 years is like comparing NFL quarterbacks. Who was better: Peyton Manning or Johnny Unitas? How can one physician from the 1920s compare to another in today’s era of healthcare reform and big health syste... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Your Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit preview (cardiology edition) | Cleveland Clinic’s annual Medical Innovation Summit begins Monday, packed with its usual lineup of big-name medical device CEOs, healthcare heavyweights, media personalities and, this year, Dick Cheney.
The summit annually tackles a major h... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Data security: A rising problem for electronic health records | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
It was kind of funny reading this recent article from the New York Times that focuses on a relatively small health data breach from Stanford Hospital’s emergency room:
A medical privacy breach involving Stanfor... |
| Sep 8, 2011 | Physician stress, mental effort doesn’t vary much across specialties | That statement, and particularly the part about “valuing the services,” could be music to the ears of those who advocate for higher primary care salaries. The compensation gap between specialists and primary care doctors is wide, despite a ... |
| Aug 8, 2011 | Healthcare reform’s impact: Farewell to public hospitals like MetroHealth | In short: MetroHealth a decade from now will bear little resemblance to the MetroHealth of today. At a national level, the takeaway here is the impact of healthcare reform on hospitals will mean the idea of the public hospital will almost c... |
