Telehealth and Santa Claus
Salt Lake City-based Shriners Hospitals for Children is implementing a new telehealth system. To test it, the hospital invited visitors to participate. Instead of a physician being on the other end of a telehealth connection, it was Santa Claus. I am sure the children loved it. Shriners plans to deploy the telehealth system for orthopedics. […]
Still On The Air
The TV interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business was fun, but being on the radio is also a good way to share my points of view about healthcare. Since the end of September, it has been my pleasure to have completed more than 50 radio interviews. See In The News for the list. Some interviews were a few minutes […]
Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2016
Some amazing things are happening in the medical arena of healthcare. Each year the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit looks at hundreds of innovations and publishes a list of what they believe to be the top ten. At the top of the list is vaccines to prevent public health epidemics. The Ebola crisis brought a lot […]
Telehealth for Medicare
A bipartisan bill is advancing in the Senate to enable Medicare to fund expanded telehealth for rural areas. The Telehealth Innovation and Improvement Act sounds like a good thing. I have two reservations. First is bureaucracy. The bill would allow The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to test telehealth services of a hospital through […]
Nurses Trade in Clipboards for iPads
My 4-year-old granddaughter announced recently she plans to be a nurse, like her aunt and grandmom. I wonder if there will be any clipboards in use in healthcare when she starts working. I hope not. Greater Seattle Memorial Hospital announced plans to replace its clipboard nurses with iPAD nurses (see the full story here). Senior-level […]
