• Improving Health Care by Gamifying It

    Improving Health Care by Gamifying It

    Physicians often struggle to help patients change their health behaviors. Patients may know that they need to quit smoking, lose weight, or exercise more, but summoning the will to change is hard. …

    Posted May 26, 2019patient engagement

  • Telehealth Is Improving Health Care in Rural Areas

    Telehealth Is Improving Health Care in Rural Areas

    Intermountain Healthcare is addressing the pressing needs of people who live in rural areas through telehealth, which uses secure video and audio technology to connect care providers in smaller health …

    Posted May 26, 2019home carerural healthtelehealthtelemedicine

  • How Home-Based Primary Care Can Reduce Expensive Hospitalizations

    How Home-Based Primary Care Can Reduce Expensive Hospitalizations

    A CareMore Health program in Connecticut has proven that an approach can reduce the expensive hospitalizations that largely drive the high cost of caring for these patients. How? By treating these …

    Posted May 26, 2019home careltpacprimary care

  • How One Health System Overcame Resistance to a Surgical Checklist

    How One Health System Overcame Resistance to a Surgical Checklist

    A case study for effecting change in a change-averse industry. During a time when health care is undergoing the most sweeping change ever, health systems, not surprisingly, are struggling to overcome …

    Posted May 26, 2019

  • A third of type one diabetes is misdiagnosed in the over 30s

    A third of type one diabetes is misdiagnosed in the over 30s

    More than a third of people over the age of 30 who are initially diagnosed with type 2 diabetes actually have type 1, meaning they are not receiving the right treatment, new research has revealed.

    Posted May 26, 2019big datadiabetesmisdiagnosisobservational studystudy results

  • In This Doctor’s Office, a Physical Exam Like No Other

    In This Doctor’s Office, a Physical Exam Like No Other

    Genetic and molecular analysis of 109 volunteers turned up hidden health problems in about half of them. Critics say the approach amounted to ‘carpet-bombing’ the body.

    Posted May 26, 2019big datadata

  • Medical Informatics to Pay OCR $100K for Potential HIPAA Violations

    Medical Informatics to Pay OCR $100K for Potential HIPAA Violations

    HHS Office for Civil Rights announced Medical Informatics Engineering, a healthcare business associate, will pay a civil monetary penalty of $100K after a 2015 breach impacting 3.5 million patients.

    Posted May 24, 2019cybersecurity

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