Anthony Grimaldi, MA, CASAC, Senior Vice President, BHM Healthcare Solutions, explains the changes to the way that providers must deliver healthcare. He describes 5 fundamental differences in healthcare…
Connor Landgraf, CEO, Eko Devices, introduces the Eko, which converts the analog stethoscope into a powerful digital tool. He explains 3 primary uses for the Eko: 1) Primary…
Sandeep Jauhar, MD (www.sandeepjuahar.com), author of Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, elaborates on the the one basic dilemma presented by medical training: How do we…
Sandeep Jauhar, MD (www.sandeepjuahar.com), author of Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, explains what he terms the “mid-life crisis” of American medicine. The memoir calls for reform and change for…
Sandeep Jauhar, MD (www.sandeepjauhar.com) discusses his memoir, Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation, which is based on his life as a resident at New York Weill Cornell, one of the…
Robert M. Strauss, MD, AGAF, FACG, Gastroenterologist, GI Specialists of Georgia, gives an overview of the characteristics and pathology of Clostridium difficile. He explains that when the population of…
Time is critical after a patient experiences a stroke. If doctors can administer a clot dissolving drug to an eligible patient within 60 minutes after arriving at the…
John Mattison, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Kaiser Permanente, explains why he left the fee-for-service world and joined the Kaiser Permanente as an integrated delivery system. Dr.…
A patient centered medical home is a way of organizing outpatient care to improve coordination among doctors and health professionals. It also aims to reduce unnecessary spending on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In hospitalized cancer patients, the common problem of hyponatremia can be corrected by administration of the orally active V2 receptor antagonist, tolvaptan. The…