The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2018, The New York Times Company). Heart disease is the most common killer of men in the United States, and high blood pressure is one of the greatest risk factors for heart disease. Despite knowing this for some time, we have had a hard time getting patients...
Security and privacy of our online presence is vitally important, perhaps more so than we may realize at this stage of the evolution of social media. It is similar to patient safety and quality in healthcare; there is no room for compromise, and neglect can be catastrophic. I was quite...
In this video featured on Healthcare Triage, Dr Aaron Carroll discusses how American personal health spending grew by about $930 billion between 1996 and 2013, from $1.2 trillion to $2.1 trillion (amounts adjusted for inflation) and that American healthcare spending is still WAY higher than pretty much all other...
Neither the workforce nor the health care system is prepared for the mass aging of baby boomers, but steps can be taken to remedy that, keynote speaker Dr. Bruce Clark, cofounder of Age Wave and Impact Presentations Group, told attendees at NH Business Review’s Health Care Forum presented by Harvard...
Making a difference in the lives of the 2.2B children in the world. As a healthcare professional, you might agree that something has to change in our healthcare system. While we could debate public policy, insurance carriers and the law, I’ll make a case there are significant steps in technology, which...