Telehealth Shortens Wait Time for Vets
The Department of Veterans Affairs has struggled with exceptionally long wait times for veterans to see a physician. The wait has been especially long in California as the problem is compounded with exceptionally long driving times. New telehealth services similar to Skype or FaceTime have changed the equation. In some cases the wait has dropped from three months to […]
Chinese Scientists To Perform Gene-Editing Trial On Humans
CRISPR-Cas9 is not exactly a household name. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Cas9 stands for CRISPR associated protein 9, an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease enzyme associated with CRISPR. If you read what they really stand for, it might make your head hurt. It is really complex. CRISPR was discovered in 2007 when a yogurt company found a bacteria which could eliminate viruses. The technology has evolved dramatically […]
Baby Boomers and Exercise
A recent survey of 1,443 consumers by CareCloud Corp., a developer of cloud-based healthcare technology for doctors, found 62% of Baby Boomers use the web to access and update their electronic health records. The percentage was significantly higher than older users and younger users. An article on InternetHealthManagement.com said, “Boomers are the group most likely to take advantage of digital […]
Amazon with Attitude
Some exciting news about cancer treatments is coming in next week’s e-brief. Today, in advance of the publishing of Election Attitude in August, I am announcing the formation of a new Amazon aStore. The aStore is fully integrated with Attitude LLC. Visitors to Attitude LLC will be able to buy “attitude” books as well as many […]
Audiobooks
The image is square for a reason. It is not a book cover, it represents the Audible version of the book. About 20 years ago, I sat next to Don Katz, Founder and CEO of Audible, at a technology conference. I remember how bullish he was about audio books. Most people were skeptical at the time […]
