MUSING – iRemedy: A Simple Cure to an Old Problem
July 9, 2013 | Gary PaquinStudies have shown that consumers are increasingly asking for the ability to communicate with their physician via email or other [MORE]
MUSING – The Healthcare Solution: Looking in All the Wrong Places
June 25, 2013 | Gary PaquinAging boomers provide the catalyst for a more aggressive consumer participant approach to their health. The Internet gave them the [MORE]
MUSING – Healthcare Systems See a Compelling Need for Operational Intelligence
June 11, 2013 | Eric NovackSuccessful healthcare delivery networks must adapt to the increasingly challenging financial environment to achieve their fundamental mission of providing high [MORE]
MUSING – Entropy and the Exploding Hospital
March 19, 2013 | Rolf HaarstadWe are often asked as healthcare architects “What is the hospital of the future?” Perhaps the question is best posed [MORE]
MUSING – Automated Billing Analysis
April 3, 2012 | Terry SharrerEveryone knows that someone pays for healthcare, whether it’s the government, an insurer, an individual, or the provider. But it [MORE]
MUSING – KEEN Musings
March 20, 2012 | Tim KriewallIs it time to change the way we educate engineers in America? About 20 private engineering colleges around the U.S. [MORE]
MUSING – The Medical Home at Home
March 6, 2012 | Robin FelderTelemedicine has been defined as the technology version of the “Dr. Marcus Welby house call” but replaced with a [MORE]
MUSING – Parallel Jubilees
November 29, 2011 | Terry Sharrer2011 was a jubilee year-50th anniversary-for two seemingly unrelated aspirations: manned space exploration and wellness. In May 1961, [MORE]
Artificial Intelligence, Medical Robotics and Medical Automation Education
July 18, 2011 | Robin FelderMuch of medical decision making is matching symptoms with known diseases. Thus artificial intelligence (AI) will certainly make this process more efficient…
MUSING – The Communication Barrier
May 31, 2011 | Gary PaquinIn the classic 1967 film, Cool Hand Luke, the captain utters the immortal words, “What we have here is a [MORE]
MUSING – Doctor, The Patient Will See You Now…
May 3, 2011 | Gary PaquinAndrew 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
April 26, 2011 | Gary PaquinAging 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?
September 7, 2010 | Robin FelderThe recent launch of ShopKick iPhone app (application) allows stores to know when you ( a potential customer) has arrived [MORE]
MUSING – The Trek Desk: Exercise, Work, and Lose Weight
August 31, 2010 | Pamela CiprianoAn increase in sedentary work has contributed to bulging bodies. People struggle making time to exercise, and many complain of [MORE]
MUSING – Medicare Break Even
May 25, 2010 | Terry SharrerPL 111-148-the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010-begins the most significant revamping of healthcare since [MORE]
MUSING – The Autonomous Hospital
May 11, 2010 | Terry SharrerThe Defense Department has been doing R&D work on autonomous vehicles-remotely controlled tanks, pilotless “Predator” aircraft and the like. Largest [MORE]
MUSING – Hypertension and the Chinese: Impact of Genetic Disease on the World’s Largest Population
March 30, 2010 | Robin FelderInvisible 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
March 9, 2010 | Terry SharrerHarvard Professor Clayton Christensen coined “disruptive innovation” in 1997 to signifying something that unexpectedly changes a market. The glucose meter, [MORE]
Join the Discussion – The Impact of Robotics on Healthcare
March 9, 2010 | Christian Klit JohansenChristian Klit Johansen
Question: Will robotics and automation of service task help meet the challenge of the demographic change world wide [MORE]
MUSING – Kiosk-Based Healthcare Delivery
March 2, 2010 | Robin FelderMedication Kiosk – PharmaTrust
Kiosk-based medicine has suddenly taken a new step with the next wave in direct to consumer marketing [MORE]
MUSING – Automation as a Bridge
February 23, 2010 | Terry SharrerWhether or not healthcare insurance reform proceeds in Congress, true healthcare reform is proceeding. Its sources are molecular [MORE]
MUSING – The Community Hospital
February 9, 2010 | Terry SharrerCommunity hospitals make up the vast majority (86%) of hospitals in the US and account for more than a half [MORE]
What do the experts think about saving Medicare?
November 1, 2009 | Terry SharrerEvery hospital in the United States is now trying to figure out a strategy for breaking even on Medicare patients [MORE]
What you think is the #1 challenge in healthcare today? What medical technology can help to meet those challenges?
November 1, 2009 | Anand IyerWith the current raging debate about the American healthcare system, we are hearing conflicting, sometimes contentious, and frequently emotional viewpoints. [MORE]