by Jill Hoffman | Jul 30, 2013 | Editorial
The first hospital in the United States owned and operated by a university was opened in a former professor’s house on the central campus of the University of Michigan in 1869. Surgical operations were performed in the upper lecture room until an operating room was...
by Jill Hoffman | Jul 24, 2013 | Editorial
When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, backers promised it would provide more affordable, accessible and comprehensive health care and insurance coverage for all Americans, including 30 million people without health insurance. However, when this complex law...
by Jill Hoffman | Jul 10, 2013 | Editorial
The health services industry touches the lives of nearly everyone in the United States. It encompasses hospital care, physician, dental, and clinical services, prescriptions drugs, medical devices, and nursing home and home health care. These sectors generate...
by Jill Hoffman | Jun 18, 2013 | Editorial
Between 1960 and 2013, the average life expectancy for men and women in the United States rose from 70 to nearly 79 years. During that same period, the general population of the United States grew older with the baby boomers. Add 32 million Americans gaining access to...
by Jill Hoffman | Jun 11, 2013 | Editorial
Health information technology (health IT), or the exchange of health information in an electronic environment, allows the safe and secure sharing of health information as it passes between consumers, providers, insurers and government entities. Health IT has been on...
by Laura Nobles | Apr 29, 2013 | Editorial
Just Ask a Former Biomedical Engineer Turned Personal Trainer Customization is a hot concept in medtech these days. The idea, of course, is that enhanced personalization will improve treatment accuracy, patient outcomes and quality of life. I’ve learned over the past...
