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!
Dante Murphy (Digitas Health): “Don’t Tell Italians Not To Eat Pasta”
Learn more about Dante Murphy and effective communication between patients and physicians!
No B for Boring at TEDMED – A Force in The Healthcare Evolution
Read MedCrunch's recap of this year's TEDMED.
Doctors Make Mistakes – Let’s Deal With It
There is problem in the medical practice. A problem that we know how to deal with in so many other aspects of life: human error. It is time we redefine medical culture.
How To Become A Dedicated Doctor
What does it take to become a doctor, and what's the state of of medical education?
Copyright and the Right to Open Access. What can Healthcare Providers do?
How it's possible that publicly funded research cannot be accessed freely? A crucial part implicates the involvement of researchers, healthcare practitioners and society as a whole.
Health Costs Compared: United States Most Expensive, Argentina Cheapest
It's no secret that prices for health care services are most expensive in the United States. But what about the rest of the world?
Are You Happy?
According to Daniel Kahneman’s TED talk, it’s very difficult to think clearly about wellbeing and it might be time to adopt a more complicated view of what wellbeing really is. The discrepancy mainly lies between the experience of happiness and the memory of happiness.
Death in the 20th Century. The Infographic
We know that eventually we are all going to die. What we often don’t know is how. Neither did our grandfathers or our great-grandfathers.
The Customer is Always Right: New Ways of Seeing Hospital Patients
Hospitals see a lot of patients come and go, and it's inevitable that they all start blending together after a while. Read on...
