Survey Results
Thank you very much for the significant participation in my survey about the Attitude LLC blog. The results were loud and clear. 9% want the blog update monthly, 23% want a few times per week, and 68% preferred weekly. On the second survey question about length of content, 65% suggested a full page. Beginning at noon on […]
Send Me Anything But Another Survey
If you are like me, you don’t like surveys. The concept is good. Companies and organizations of all kinds want to know how they’re doing so they can improve their operations and customer satisfaction. The problem is most surveys are too long and often only reflective of the surveyor’s needs, not the needs of the persons being surveyed. They typically ask […]
Medicare Spent $14M for Telemedicine Last Year
Medicare reimbursed healthcare providers $14M for telemedicine in 2014. The spending represents continued growth but still a drop in the bucket. The bucket of money Medicare spent in 2014 was $600 billion. As a percentage the telemedicine spending was .002%. The focus of telemedicine in the past has been rural America. Patients hundreds of miles from a […]
Mom and 12 Things We Can 3D Print in Medicine
Printing something about Mom on my LulzBot Taz 5 3-D Printer seemed like a good way to start the 100th Mother’s Day. I enjoy printing various nicknacks, animals or spaceships for grandkids, and household parts not available any longer. Much more important than my hobby is the plethora of things in the world of medicine that can […]
Drones in medicine?
A drone delivers medicine from a nearby pharmacy to the Deutsche Post headquarters in Bonn, Germany. The possibilities are many according to Cornelius Thiels, a general surgery resident who wrote in KevinMD.com. He said drones will not replace provider care, but perhaps they could deliver: Blood to a hospital that’s running low Medical supplies to mass […]