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.
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.
Is Digital Health Ready to Disrupt Healthcare? Find out at DHF13!
MedCrunch is proud to announce the first edition of the Digital Health Forum, taking place in London on the 11th of June at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Where Is Your Mind?
Neuroscience has experienced a bit of a shake-up in recent weeks. Neurologist Robert Burton released his new book "A Skeptical's Guide To The Mind" and, as the title suggests, he is questioning a lot of the work in this field.
Do We Really Need To Quantify Ourselves?
New fitness devices and apps are popping up everywhere these days and are particularly popular in the San Francisco Bay Area. The fuzz about Google Glass might be just the beginning of a new era. Yet a lot of us don’t really know what to do with it and how to make use...
Dante Murphy (Digitas Health): “Don’t Tell Italians Not To Eat Pasta”
Learn more about Dante Murphy and effective communication between patients and physicians!
A Future Business Model For The Pharmaceutical Industry?
I just came back from this year’s Innovations & Investments in Healthcare Summit in Berlin. Apart from being a fabulously organized event, many forward thinking physicians and industry representatives were present at the two-day program.
