Book Review – Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Daniel Lapin
In this great book, Rabbi Daniel Lapin explains what the Thora teaches us about success in business. Highly recommended reading for any physician founder or entrepreneur.
The Elephant Man and The Medicine of Disability
We discuss often the ways in which medicine prolongs life: controlled infections with antibiotics, life saving organ transplants, vaporized tumors and the like. Just as important are the ways in which medicine improves quality of life or gives explanation to the things we fear: the disabilities we can see. A friend of mine who teaches freshman...
Making a Dent in One of Healthcare’s Biggest Problems
What do you think is the most common topic that comes up when physicians complain about their patients? According to a 2011 Consumer Reports survey of physicians, noncompliance with medication and other treatment recommendations was number one.
I can understand that. Non-adherence is a demoralizing problem for physicians. Think of all that effort on diagnosis, clinical...
Smartphone, MD – A Doctor At the Tip Of Your Fingers
This ist part I in a series of posts about how technology interacts with the modern patient and physician. I have always considered myself as a technology junkie and I thank my father for that. He always had the newest, fastest and amazing computer (back in the day it was a Gateway 486 – moo!)....
Improve Outcomes and Engage Patients in Their Own Health with Social Media Improve Outcomes and Engage Patients in Their Own Health with Social Media
This is a guest post by Katie Matlack, a Medical Analyst for Software Company “Software Advice“. By now plenty of bloggers have discussed the September study that found that well over half of doctors use social media in their practice of medicine. It came as no surprise that most docs who participated in the study...
What If?
For the third time, actor Ashton Kutcher has invested in a european internet startup. What might seem odd at first sight, is important. We need more people like Mr. Kutcher. People who act on the intersections of genres. Those are the people who constantly push boundaries and have a fresh take on things where many...
The Internet, Information And What It Means For Physicians
Professor Gunter Dueck, is a calm and eloquent german mathematician who’s also the CTO of IBM Germany. He studied mathematics and philosophy and eventually turned out to be a great writer and speaker. Unfortunately he only does so in german, which is why it doesn’t make much sense to post a video of him here....
Are You a Physician? Do You Feel Stuck in Your Clinical Job? Here Is Some Great Advice For You!
If you DO feel stuck, you might need the advice of a physician consultant like Ashley Wendel? Read the full interview here....
Wendy Sue Swanson and the How To’s of a Successful Physician Blog
Wendy Sue Swanson teaches you how to design and manage a successful physician blog and much much more in this MedCrunch interview.
This Is A Lot – HealthTap Receives $11 Million And Is Growing Strongly
We are not the typical scoop-driven health 2.0 news portal, but once in a while we are happy to share some exciting news for startups we apreciate. In this case we’ve just received a press release saying that HealthTap, which we’ve dubbed as a “a giant leap for healthcare“, is receiving the staggering amount of...
Quantified Self & Health – Learnings From A Health 2.0 Startup
What is quantified self? How can quantified self improve health-care delivered to patients? Ubiqi Health, a health 2.0 startup, teaches us how in this post.
From Expert To Patient – Why Medical Knowledge Is Siloed
In this post, we will share with you how medical knowledge is generated and distributed and why this has to change.
