Blogs
Excerpts from Michael’s Forbes.com blog, The Examining Table, and entries from The Health Care Blog
The Examining Table
At CES, A Tractor And A Patient Stethoscope Point To Digital Health Future
Deere’s “smart machines” incorporate computer vision, soil moisture sensing, GPS with precise signal correction, machine learning and cloud computing…In health care terms, that adds up to personalized, evidence-based farming.
Address “Plane-Crash Level” Patient Harm, HHS Tells Hospitals, As Political Currents Swirl
The Department of Health and Human Services is launching an Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety that aims to recruit the nation’s largest health systems as participants.
When Medical Error Becomes Personal, Activism Becomes Painful
Though I’d never myself experienced a medical error, I became an activist. Recently, however, a relative was a victim, and the frustrating persistence of error became personally painful. [So I examined] more closely what the profession euphemistically …
Digital Health Firms Reverse Dollar-Bill Motto In Bid To Make Big Bucks
Digital health firms are increasingly betting that the key to success is offering “one to many” technologies that addresses workforce shortages by expanding the reach of clinicians.
“No Weekend Surgery”Dooming Many Awaiting Life-Saving Transplants: Report
Large numbers of Americans awaiting life-saving organ transplants are dying because many transplant centers don’t do surgery on the weekend. The overall rejection rate for available kidneys could be slashed…by measures such as ensuring centers perfor…