Solving Healthcare Fraud
The Wall Street Journal reported in Florida Doctor Linked to Sen. Robert Menendez Indicted for Medicare Fraud this morning that a West Palm Beach opthamologist got $105 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) over a period of six years. Unfortunately, the reported case is one of many. As discussed in the new book […]
Waiting for the Apple Watch
I don’t know exactly how I will use the Apple Watch but I am anxious to start up the learning curve. I ordered the watch at 3:05 AM and got an expected shipping date of May 13. For every enthusiast there is a skeptic or two. I am in the enthusiast camp. The iPod, iPhone, […]
A Campus Visit
I had not visited the campus for quite some time. My eight years of service as a member of the College of Engineering advisory board ended a few years ago when I was engulfed in my doctoral journey. The visit this week was to lay the groundwork for a lecture on campus this Fall about […]
Sequencing the Genome of An Unborn Baby
One of the topics in Health Attitude that may be the most profound is genomics. The following post is an example. Beginning in 1990, more than 200 scientists collaborated on a $3-billion project to sequence the roughly 3 billion bases of human DNA. Between 2002 and 2008 the cost to perform the sequencing gradually declined from $100 million to […]
Molecular-level Health Testing With the iPhone
With the power of a supercomputer, the iPhone is going to be the host for a wide range of healthcare-related consumer devices and related apps. The latest comes from a San Diego startup named Cue. The company has developed a compact consumer-oriented device that can detect five biological conditions at a molecular level. This is not a […]