For their 2021 Future of Healthcare & Medicine conference, the MIT Club of Northern California invited founders, technologists, investors, and industry leaders who are working to build the…
Dr. Gregory Goodman is the Founder of the Physician Entrepreneur Summit, an online conference with a mission to inspire the next generation of physician entrepreneurs to solve healthcare’s…
The concept seems simple enough, but even after several years in operation, Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative is still causing headaches for doctors. Under this voluntary program, physicians…
A new study of physician practices finds that while many physicians are having difficulty communicating with patients because of language or cultural barriers, even fewer are following the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chest pain of uncertain origin, emergency department evaluation combining clinical history and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level, without exercise…
Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses a recent study, “Your Brain on Google” in which blood flow patterns were compared…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The biomarker procalcitonin can help guide treatment of severe bacterial infections in the intensive care unit (ICU), French investigators report online in The…
EW YORK (Reuters Health) – Low-risk patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with angioplasty can be discharged within 72 hours, Canadian investigators suggest. Although STEMI patients…
Kevin Hauser, Director New Business Development at MedeFile International discusses the advanced features and benefits of their technology. These include MedeMinder and the Interactive Healthcare Calendar, which function…
Kevin Hauser, Director of New Business Development at MedeFile International discusses their technology. MedeFile has developed a proprietary system for gathering and digitizing medical records so that individuals…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that operative times are independently and directly linked to the risk of infectious complications and the length of hospital stay.…
An interview with Adam Bosworth, founder of Keas. Keas is a web-based patient resource whose mission is to help patients understand what their health data means and how…
