Virtual physician visits and telemedicine, once viewed primarily as a means to help provide care to individuals in rural areas or to link physicians in rural areas to specialists or colleagues in academic centers, are now also being considered as… Read More ›
Here are 4 health care proposals that have been made by politicians running for office. How many do you agree with? 1. “[Health care reform] should expand competition in the marketplace, it should empower consumers and patients to make healthcare… Read More ›
Each year, County Health Rankings releases a report and an interactive website with detailed health data for every county in the United States. Most of the data available, however, are several years old. For example, for the 2014 report, measures… Read More ›
A 14-week text messaging program helped dozens of people in a pilot study become more aware of their diabetes risk and make healthier dietary choices, according to new research. The pilot was part of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program,… Read More ›
Some medical communications companies such as Medscape/WebMD that offer online continuing medical education (CME) programs receive millions of dollars from pharmaceutical and device manufacturers and share information such as a physician’s licensing number and specialty with unnamed third parties, warn… Read More ›
By Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, and Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH Three years ago, the US government began implementing the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, a federal initiative with an ambitious goal: to convince all physicians… Read More ›
Although many people worry about the negative effects of social media on teenagers, one Minnesota parent used a child’s Facebook posts to alert public health officials about a large foodborne outbreak of strep throat. Strep throat, or Group A Streptococcus… Read More ›
