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The First Amendment, in Your Medicine Cabinet
No American in 2014 who watches television, reads a magazine, goes online…
Big Data = Big Brother? Leveraging Transaction Data for Better Healthcare
Based on the results of countless studies - such as a 2011…
Advanced Care Planning: What to Do Now
(Originally published on Patient Empowerment Network)If you are an adult, you need to…
Nursing Home Complaint Centers Fields Your Calls for Deaths Around Septic Shock
The Nursing Home Complaint Center believes that, based on the calls they…
Patient Nonadherence: A Rational Reaction to Sub-Optimal Physician-Patient Communication
I have been working on a paper exploring the link between physician-patient…
Top 8 ACA Delays: Blatantly Illegal or Temporary Courses of Action?
Summary: With so many ACA delays thus far, is the ACA really…
Keeping Patients in the Dark
Back when I slaved in the depths of Hunter Thompson’s “shallow money…
FDA Offers Guidance on Social Media Etiquette for Medical Device Manufacturers
On June 18, 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released…
Unintended Consequences: How HIEs Force Patients to Quit Their PCPs
Last week, a patient who has seen me for more than 20…
Culture Change Is Here: People Are Price-Shopping for Health Care
Summary: Culture change is here. People are upset about rising health care prices and…