Managing Multiple Chronic Health Conditions
Navigating Complex Health Care Approximately one in four Americans is struggling to manage multiple chronic health conditions, and the number is continuing to increase with an aging boomer population. The U.S. Department […]
Read full articleCare Coordination – It’s time for our family and friends.
Too often care coordination is considered to be something that only happens to be between professional members of a healthcare team. Yet, we know that most healthcare happens at home […]
Read full articleWhy your Healthstory is important
Your Story – where you are in life right this minute, and how you got here, is important to any treatment you might receive under a doctor’s care. It’s so […]
Read full articleDocs, how do Patient Owned Health Records best assist your workflow?
By Kirk Saunders and Hamish MacDonald Eric Topol, MD, recently penned an editorial on Medscape entitled “Why Are Doctors and Hospitals the Owners of Patient Records?”. He asks provocatively, “…isn’t […]
Read full articlePrivacy: the fine line between patient and consumer healthcare data
Healthcare is big business and the use of technologies by private firms is rising. These privatized firms are businesses, and businesses exist to make money. That being said, EU Observer […]
Read full articleAn update each day keeps the hospital away
Have you noticed Healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada already starting to develop online web-portals to combine or aggregate patient healthcare information? Some of them aim to make patients […]
Read full articleSeth Godin’s simple form that could save your life – IMPROVED
Todays wisdom from Seth Godin is about a health form based on a google document that records all of your personal basic health information. That’s exactly what Lifetime Health Diary […]
Read full articleOn collaboration for health teamwork
JP Rangaswami writes very persuasively about the developing themes that drive sucessfull collaboration across the enterprise in his blog post, On Collaboration. It’s long, but worth reading in full. The […]
Read full articleWhen does healthcare data mining go bad?
If I were to examine your Lifetime Health Diary daily wellness and mood records, would I see a correlation between your diet and exercise regime and how you feel? In […]
Read full articleAwareness drives health improvements
As with so many other things in life, improved awareness can make a positive change to your health. Here’s a nice study where US barber shops installed blood pressure check […]
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