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Founder of KevinMD.com board certified in internal medicine and practices primary care in Nashua, N.H. His blog has more than 47,000 RSS subscribers and 40,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter, making him social media's leading physician voice.
Physicians started to cautiously enter the social media space beginning around 2005 – most blogging anonymously – but today doctors are beginning to embrace the technology as a way to make a difference in patient education.
When it comes to using social media, fear of violating HIPAA rules is top of mind for physicians, but experts say if they can adhere to privacy regulations, the technology’s benefits are far reaching.
Diabetes is anything but “one-size-fits-all” disease. So HealthPartners researchers and physicians have developed a new tool called Diabetes Wizard, which uses uses EHRs to customize individual care.
The "HOPEmobile" is a 64-foot trailer outfitted with sophisticated telemedicine equipment that travels to underserved and remote areas of New Mexico, providing free, comprehensive health screenings for high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, pre-diabetes and other chronic conditions.
After completing a successful pilot program with 500 physicians, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia (BCBSGa) has teamed up with Availity, a health information network that health plan officials say will streamline business processes between more than 26,000 of Georgia's healthcare providers and BCBSGa, the state's largest health plan.
The government has found a new high-tech way to crack down on fraud in the Medicare program – predictive modeling. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said it would launch the initiative on July 1.
Personalized medicine needs a lot more exposition before it comes part of the mainstream, but a group of dedicated professionals is determined to make sure that it arrives as soon as possible.
With hospitals "raising the bar" to meet meaningful use requirements, new positions are being created within IT departments that have a focus on quality and data, says one consultant.
After decades of fits and starts, electronic health records adoption is becoming reality, thanks in no small part to the federal incentive program for meaningful use of EHRs. But the health IT industry still has plenty of room to evolve.