by Jill Hoffman | Sep 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
The twenty-first century has seen groundbreaking improvements in prosthetics for amputees, and developments continue at a rapid rate. The Department of Defense’s Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program has been working with rehabilitation experts at...
by Jill Hoffman | Sep 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Promoting healthcare products is always a challenge, and as the market changes and grows, several areas need to be addressed. The top issue concerns making patient engagement strategies a priority for healthcare companies. With a higher emphasis on value-based care,...
by Jill Hoffman | Apr 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Institute of Medicine calls health literacy the “Prescription to End Confusion,” but understanding medical information is not as simple as taking a pill. As the Consumer Health Information Coordinator Michelle Eberle writes, health literacy “requires a complex...
by Jill Hoffman | Apr 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, the law created something known as the Partnership for Patients. The program is aimed at reducing hospital acquired conditions and readmissions while improving the relationship between healthcare professionals and patients....
by Jill Hoffman | Mar 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
When a nurse says “The doctor will see you now,” the doctor might not really be seeing you. According to a 2013 study by Johns Hopkins University, a large majority of young doctors fresh out of medical school failed to use common communication skills with hospitalized...
by Jill Hoffman | Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
According to the Health Resources and Services Administration in May 2013, there was a shortfall of primary care physicians totaling 16,000. And that was before the Affordable Care Act was expected to add 30 million additional insured people to the healthcare system...
