by Jill Hoffman | Mar 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Nothing is more important to a person than his or her health, but millions remain uniformed and passive when it comes to healthcare. Passive consumers expect providers to take charge of their health, do not ask questions or provide information, and have complacent, or...
by Jill Hoffman | Mar 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
In 2011, it was revealed that the French firm Poly Implant Prothèses (PIP) had been using cheap, industrial silicone, not intended for medical purposes, in breast implants for a decade. As the world’s third largest global supplier of breast implants, the scandal...
by Jill Hoffman | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Regulation plays a major role in the healthcare industry, and healthcare in the United States is filtered through an alphabet soup of government agencies including the HHS, the CDC, the AHRQ, the FDA and the CMS. The Department of Health and Human Services is a...
by Jill Hoffman | Feb 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Technology has been a driving force of change in the field of medicine for decades, and the high-tech transformation will continue to accelerate through the 2010s. Smartphones, tablet computers, mobile health (mHealth) apps, and remote monitoring devices are...
by Jill Hoffman | Feb 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Business is about to pick up America’s 30,000 hospitals in the coming year thanks to millions of new patients taking advantage of the Affordable Care Act. With newly insured patients seeking treatment at hospitals, patient volume is expected to grow rapidly. The...
