The College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University has started a graduate program in Narrative Medicine. The Mission statement reads as follows: “Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. Through narrative training, the Program in Narrative Medicine helps doctors, nurses, [...]
Are you all over the place when you put out blogs or newsletters highlighting your services? Long gone are the days when you put out a shingle announcing an M.D. is in town and everyone flocks to the office for medical services. Now, competition dictates that a business plan is in place and information disseminating [...]
Pew Internet & American Life announces that “gamification has emerged as a way to describe interactive online design that plays on people’s competitive instincts and often incorporates the use of rewards to drive action”. “The use of game mechanics, feedback loops, and rewards will become more embedded in daily life by 2020″ What does this [...]
The latest PHR (personal health record) has become available to people covered under UnitedHealthcare insurance policies. United Healthcare announced this month that it has developed the “Blue Button” tool so that people can download their personal information. With the click of a button on the website, one can access the tool. This will be open [...]
Online games supply great captivating interactive experiences. Considering this, games structured to stimulate health behavior modification can lead to significant improvement in health. Leading the forefront of video and digital health games is Health Games Research,funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio. The mission of Health Games Research, which is an 8.25 million dollar [...]
The use of electronic medical record systems and digitalized records became mandatory in the U.S. as of 2009. The hope of course was that patient records could then be shared where ever a patient relocated to and what ever physician the patient went to. Therefore, laboratory tests and Xray test redundancy could be avoided. But [...]
