Solo physicians and small practices will soon have a new low-cost electronic health records (EHR) solution option available to them from a brand they may know very well: Epocrates. The popular point-of-care mobile application provider will soon launch its own…
In addition to my consulting work and writing the Health Business Blog, I’m chairman of the board of Advanced Practice Strategies, a medical risk management firm that provides litigation support for malpractice defense and an eLearning curriculum focused on enhancing…
It’s official. The Pharma and Healthcare Social Media Wiki is one year old today. If you’re wondering what it looked like back in February of 2009, you can check out the Wiki Classic. You’ll see that there wasn’t much to…
Epocrates, one of the top selling medical smartphone applications, recently published results from a survey of its physician users that found about 20 percent of them, or one in five plan to buy an Apple iPad when the device hits…
It’s a simple question: Do mobile health tools require a doctor’s prescription? Or will the main driver for mHealth services bubble up from consumers and patients largely without care providers weighing in? Throughout the keynote sessions at the mHealth Initiative’s…
This is the transcript of Part 2 of my recent podcast interview with Dr. Robert Wachter and Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi of UCSF.
In Part 1, Vidyarthi and Wachter provided an overview of the traditional case review process and discuss their progress…
This is the transcript of Part 1 of my recent podcast interview with Dr. Robert Wachter and Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi.
David Williams: This is David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog. I’m speaking today…
Patient safety pioneer Dr. Robert Wachter is Chief of the Medical Service at UCSF Medical Center and Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi is Director of Quality. They have recently re-engineered UCSF’s medical peer review process and adopted an electronic platform from Acesis…
Health care policy discussions in the US are often framed in absolutist terms. In particular, there is a widespread belief among the public that treatment –especially for serious illnesses– should be undertaken without regard to cost. Many are wary about…
