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Health All Up In The Cloud
Cloud services come with security concerns; even more so in the sensitive field of health.
Cancer 2.0 with David Agus
David Agus, professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California, and author of the book “The End of Illness”, shares his thoughts on the perception and future trends in the field of cancer.
Is Your Smartphone A Medical Device?
With recent reports about FDA regulations for mobile health applications, there’s quite some uncertainty about what’s wrong or right among the developer community. Kim Tyrrell-Knott, Partner at Epstein Becker Green gave an update on current developments at HealthBeat 2013 in San Francisco on Monday evening. “Now that devices become much more intelligent, there is a greater...
Dave Levine (Cleveland Clinic): 3 P’s For The Future Of Health
Being close to the customer, deliver solutions not tools, think interdisciplinary and deliberate tension -this is Dave Levine's approach at the Cleveland Clinic.
ZDoggMD to Physicians: How to Say I’m Sorry
Zubin Damania -AKA ZDogg MD- shares his ideas on how medical education is not adequately capturing the shift in medicine -to focus on helping people rather than carrying out medical procedures- and how medical errors can be avoided through honest communication and understanding between physicians.
MedCrunch At HealthBeat 2013
At MedCrunch, we care about the future of health on all sorts of levels – be it patient empowerment, transparency, new technologies and entrepreneurship. A vital sign that health is becoming one of the most innovation-driven industry sectors of our generation is the amount of conferences have popped up in recent years. Even tech blogs...
5 Best Free Medical Apps for Health Practitioners
Health professionals -including medical students- are always in search for the latest technological advancement available to make their job easier. In this article, we will provide you the most recommended apps for your smartphone and tablet that will make your medical work easier.
One Step Closer To Health Cost Transparency
A recent feature in Time magazine about intransparency in healthcare costs has motivated the White House to make use of its open data initiative. Since last week, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offers a list of hospital charges across the US. The Medicare Provider Charge Data includes charges of more than 3,000...
Leaders Designing on the Fly
John Maeda is a Japanese-American graphic designer, scientist, academic, and author. In this interview, John shares some of his views on leadership with the MedCrunch team.
Transforming Healthcare through Patient Empowerment
The role of empowerment in health has been gaining importance for a long time. The healthcare system is becoming more expensive and isn’t performing effectively.
mHealth Used For Disease Management
How and why are you using mobile health technology?" The Healthcare Intelligence Network tried to answer this question in a recent survey among 149 healthcare organizations in the US this past March.
THINKING OUT OF THE BOX – Why doctors are the heroes of management consulting
What is management consulting? Why can consulting be interesting for medical doctors? And especially: what’s in for the doctors? Read all about it in this post!
