POSTS TAGGED AS Musing

MUSING – Parallel Jubilees

2011 was a jubilee year-50th anniversary-for two seemingly unrelated aspirations: manned space exploration and wellness.  In May 1961, [MORE]

MUSING – Doctor, The Patient Will See You Now…

Andrew Schorr’s recent book, The Web-Savvy Patient: An Insider’s Guide to Navigating the Internet When Facing Medical Crisis, chronicles [MORE]

MUSING – The Healthcare Solution: Looking in All the Wrong Places

Aging boomers provide the catalyst for a more aggressive consumer participant approach to their health.  The Internet gave them the [MORE]

MUSING – Where-Oh-Where Is My Clinic and My Doctor?

The recent launch of ShopKick iPhone app (application) allows stores to know when you ( a potential customer) has arrived [MORE]

MUSING – Hypertension and the Chinese: Impact of Genetic Disease on the World’s Largest Population

Invisible Health Risks on a Grandiose Scale
They have no symptoms, but hypertension and salt sensitivity will be the eventual cause [MORE]

MUSING – The Howze Effect

Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen coined “disruptive innovation” in 1997 to signifying something that unexpectedly changes a market.  The glucose meter, [MORE]