by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 26, 2012 | Headlines, Innovation, Leadership, Social Media
Mary Pat’s Note: I want to share these thoughts about technology and the doctor-patient relationship from Dr. Howard Luks. Dr. Luks is a member of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, a fantastic follow on twitter, and originally posted these on his site,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 20, 2012 | Innovation, Learn This: Technology Answers
New AHRQ Guide Identifies Successful Design Methods for Development of Consumer Health IT At Manage My Practice, we get lots of calls from people with ideas for healthcare products. They want to tell us their ideas and get our feedback. We love to hear about their...
by Abraham Whaley | Nov 13, 2012 | Innovation, Leadership, Quality
In 2001 the Institute of Medicine published Crossing the Quality Chasm, a report on the quality of healthcare in the United States and on the needless deaths that occurred in the healthcare system. The report listed ways to overcome the inadequacies in the system. The...
by Abraham Whaley | Nov 6, 2012 | Innovation, Leadership, Practice Marketing, Social Media
With more changes coming to healthcare in 2013 and 2014, should practices be looking at traditional marketing, social media marketing, or do they even have to market at all? I asked healthcare marketer Greg Fawcett from Precision...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 8, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records, Innovation, Learn This: Technology Answers
Since first hitting the market in January 2010, the iPad and its successors have been somewhat of an anomaly in healthcare technology. Outside of cutting edge clinical treatments, the healthcare industry normally lags behind other sectors in adopting new technology....
by Abraham Whaley | Jul 16, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records, Innovation
The most exciting thing for me about being in healthcare today is the contrast between steep challenges the industry faces on so many fronts – and the vast potential offered by biological and information technology. We do have some dragons to slay, but we also...
