Miracle Material May Change Everything
We will be reading a lot more about graphene in the months and years ahead. The miracle material is a thin layer of pure carbon. Graphene’s carbon atoms are bonded together in a hexagonal honeycomb lattice thinner than a piece of paper. Discovered in 2003 by two Nobel laureates at the University of Manchester in […]
A Hospital With Health Attitude
Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS) is holding their monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 5, at the Danbury Hospital Creasy Auditorium. I am privileged to be the speaker for the 23rd year. The event is open to the public. The program this year will be a bit different. I will be presenting my new book, Health Attitude: […]
Five Reasons why the prognosis for U.S. healthcare is better than you think.
Erika Fry wrote an excellent article in Fortune about the views of Bernard J. Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente (KP). KP is a healthcare giant in California with 9.5 million members, 174,415 employees, 17,425 physicians, 48,285 nurses, 38 hospitals, and more than $50 billion in operating revenues. It has been a pioneer in leveraging the […]
How Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is Defining How We Will Use the Apple Watch
Cedars-Sinai has integrated Apple Inc.’s Health app with the hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) system for more than 80,000 patients. The implementation means when one of the hospital’s patients uses any of the hundreds of apps that create data for the Apple Health database, the data will be retrievable by the physicians who may treat […]
Health Attitude Meets the Docs
Have questions about the book or what doctors think of our healthcare system? Come to the Danbury Hospital auditorium on Tuesday, May 5, at 6:30 PM. The evening will be part of the monthly meeting of the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS). After a short presentation about Health Attitude, I will introduce a panel of experts from the […]