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PAO performed at Spire Bushey

Very recently in the UK, Spire Bushey Hospital in Watford used Twitter and Vine to tweet and video live surgery in the OR for educational purposes. Mr Aresh Hashemi-Nejad, an orthopaedic surgeon at Spire Bushey, performed a Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO), a complex hip operation.[read more]

Dr. Joseph Valenti

This week, Dr. Joseph Valenti, a practising physician in Texas, talks about The Physicians Foundation, an organization founded in 2003 to support healthcare improvements in the delivery of patient care, provide physicians with a support system, promote physician leadership and education, and further improve physician practices.[read more]

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Many women seek Chiropractic treatment during pregnancy. Not only has this been deemed safe, research has shown that treatments can be advantageous for the mother’s overall health. Following are four reasons that expecting mothers should consider Chiropractic care.[read more]

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A step-by-step guide to SmartStream, a new free Twitter chat tool which allows Tweet chat participants engage in their favorite healthcare Tweet chats with ease.[read more]

This is the first post in HealthWorks Collective's new series: Health Start-Ups!. There are many, many cool healthcare startup companies out there. A few of them make it big. Many don't. I admire the developers of startups. They had an idea and they ran with it. I welcome any news, posts, ideas, people to interview, any information at all related to health start-ups. Post a comment on any of the posts in the series and I will get back to you![read more]

HealthCare social media review

For healthcare, social media connectivity opens whole new avenues: patients can network and support each other, doctors can discuss diagnoses and treatments, elderly parents can be monitored. For this edition of the HealthCare Social Media Review, I will focus on this connectivity.[read more]

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Earlier this year, ZocDoc offered high school students the chance to win a grand prize scholarship of $6,000 to the accredited college of their choice for writing the best personal health essay. The students had to submit a one-to-two page essay discussing a personal health experience, how it related to the healthcare system as a whole, and any changes they would make to the healthcare system as a result.[read more]

Ivana Schnur, M.D./ Ph.D.

This week, Ivana Schnur explains Sense.ly's Remote Assesment Hub for virtual visits with real care. Sense.ly is a virtual online nurse equipped with a set of remote diagnostic tools. Using speech recognition, augmented reality, and medical devices, Sense.ly can quickly assess a patient’s condition and provide caregivers with relevant insights for meaningful follow-up.[read more]

 

From the Editor

Finding a surgeon that you can trust to do a great job is important and often difficult. Asking family and friends is the way most people search, but it is not always the best way. Different people want different types of care and just because your neighbor had a great experience with her surgeon doesn't mean that surgeon is right for you.[read more]

I am proud to host the next edition - The 26th Edition - of the famed HealthCare Social Media Review, to be published on HealthWorks Collective next Wednesday, May 8th, 2013. This edition will also be prominently featured on our new HealthWorks Collective Facebook page - so "like" us now to be sure and get our Facebook news![read more]

Lou Caputo

This week, Lou Caputo, CEO of Summerville Medical Center in South Carolina, talks about a new hand hygiene plan that can help lower infection risk for patients. In hospitals, hand hygiene is crucial in the prevention of infection which can lead to complications and increases in morbidity. Proper hand hygiene takes minutes but is often overlooked or inproperly performed.[read more]

dental tech

The application of technological developments in dentistry is helping both dentists and patients. Dentists are able to offer effective dental treatment with the help of high-end machines. Patients, especially those who are nervous about undergoing dental treatments, can bid adieu to this discomfort.[read more]

Gary Rost

Today, Gary Rost is here with me to talk about the Savannah Business Group and value-based purchasing. SBG is a business coalition that group purchases healthcare services for self-funded employers. They negotiate rates, services, and access with medical service providers on behalf of the members ot the coalition.[read more]

Physicians Interactive just announced a partnership with Teche Action Board and through the help of Health eVillages will start providing help to healthcare professionals in southern rural Louisiana, an area heavily affected by the BP oil spill.[read more]

A key component of illness management is the use of prescribed medications. For those who have several chronic conditions, there are usually numerous prescribed medications to keep track of and their effectiveness and benefits depend on the patient's adherence. Non-adherence (failure or delay in refilling prescriptions, cutting dosages, reducing frequency of administration) can lead to significant consequences.[read more]

The writing is on the wall. Patients can and will shop around when they have to use more of their own money to pay for healthcare, and there are better channels of communication and information available to make those decisions. Which means the way you reach them, engage them, and retain them has to evolve as well.[read more]

From the Editor

Healthcare marketing has changed dramatically over the past ten years. Brochures and flyers, TV and magazine ads have given way to social media channels and provider websites. Outbound marketing has been replaced with inbound marketing. And that's a good thing (I think). But even if providers, doctors and other healthcare professionals do not agree with the "new" marketing, they better get on board or they will definitely be left behind.[read more]

Science Foundation Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI), have joined forces to develop an on-line 3D guide showing the human body in motion from the outside in. Anatomists, artists and engineers have collaborated on this project using color, illustration and 3D technology. The 4 hour teaching program will shortly be part of the curriculum/training for medical students in Dublin, Bahrain and Kuala Lumpur.[read more]

open communication

In homage to Benjamin Franklin's famous quote, "Nothing in this life is certain except for death and taxes," National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) will take place Tuesday, April 16th, the day after "tax" day. In this video interview, Martha Hayward, Lead for Public and Patient Engagement at The Institute for HealthCare Improvement, talks about HealthCare Decisions Day and The Conversation Project.[read more]

Healthcare delivery is rapidly transforming from in-office visits to telemedicine , and some predict that technology eventually could replace 80 percent of physician visits . Due to decreased Medicare payments to primary care physicians, the 65 plus group will most likely be affected the change first. Patient engagement in digital health is becoming the mantra for health services.[read more]