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Dr Nick the Incrementalist discusses the new screening guidelines for hypertension or High Blood Pressure. What’s changed and what should you do about it In November 2017 the American College of Cardiology (ACC) updated the hypertension screening guidelines. Normal: Less than 120/80 mm Hg; Elevated: Systolic between 120-129 and diastolic less than 80; Stage 1: […]
The new Colorectal screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society Screening have changed Here are my thoughts on what this means to you as you think about your own personal health screening
Your Data but Who Owns It This excellent piece by ProPublica and NPR: Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates is part of a series – The Health Insurance Hustle by Marshall Allen that offers insights into the data-rich world we are entering and how this information may well be […]
The Challenge of Security for Humans In the lead up to BlackHat and DefCon conferences I am talking to one of the leaders in that space and especially Social Engineering Chris Hadnagy (@HumanHacker), CEO & Co-Founder of Social-Engineering.com (@SocEngineerInc) and author of several books on the topic including a new one due out this summer ”Social […]
In the lead up to BlackHat and DefCon conferences, I am talking to one of the leaders in the space of security and the innovator who created and runs the outstanding security resource HaviBeenPwned (HIBP) Troy Hunt (@TroyHunt). He is an author of multiple top-rated courses on web security on Pluralsights and highly sought after speaker. The Ethics […]
I had the pleasure of talking to Bill Evans – Founder, SVP Innovation at Bridge Design, a Ximedica and learning about their success in design thinking that has created some unique and innovative products They designed a new Cleo Infusion Set for Diabetes by listening to the users – the patients and then consistently applied these small users […]
Am I the only one frustrated with a health system that allows for bills to show up not only as a slow trickle but also an avalanche if you have been unlucky to intersect with a hospital system for anything. But as if that was not bad enough there is no of limitations for medical […]
Bryan Vartabedian (Doctor_V) – Incremental Steps to Success with Electronic Health Records This week I am excited to be talking to one of the early trailblazers in social media who sits at the intersection between healthcare and technology Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, Physician Leader at Texas Children’s Hospital and @Doctor_V on twitter. Despite being a physician raised […]
Ari Lightman – Finding Insights from Digital Data This week I am talking to Ari Lightman, Professor at the HJ Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches a class at the intersection of marketing and IT including Digital Transformation, Principles of Marketing and Measuring Social He shares insights on how we can smooth the transition […]
Including SDoH in Healthcare More than ever before, the social determinants of health (SDOH) are getting some well-deserved attention when it comes to their role in impacting an individual’s relative health status. Here at BaseHealth, seeing as we’re in the business of predicting health status, we’ve focused significant time and effort on understanding how SDOH […]
Bill Rogers and the 3rd Wave Interface – Speech This week I am talking to Bill Rogers, CEO of Orbita – a company trying to do the same as WordPress did for web pages and web design but for speech interfaces Bill comes to this space and healthcare from content management where he […]
In honor of World Whisky Day we head out to Ireland — the Emerald Isle and Walsh Whiskey Distillery, Royal Oak, nestled in the East of Ireland in County Carlow and their special release: The Irishman 17 year” old Single Cask matured in a Sherry butt The distillery itself is set on an 18th Century […]
Catching up With the Digital Doctor It was great to catch up with colleague and friend Dr. Eric Topol (@EricTopol), Executive VP and Professor, Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute Founder and Director, STSI We had a wide-ranging discussion that included some specific incremental steps to better healthcare – include getting the data to the […]
New Prostate Screening Recommendations There’s a lot of talk in the news and spanning many of the social media networks with titles like this Prostate cancer screening recommendations get rolled back by US task force So what’s a man to do? Are we now all supposed to be getting prostate screening tests and what […]
Celebrating Nurses Week National Nurses Week begins on May 6th and ends on Florence Nightingale’s birthday, May 12th. An opportunity to celebrate the incredible group of professionals who deliver so much compassion and care in the healthcare system. In my time as a practicing doctor, I was blessed by so many great friends who helped […]
Defeating Loneliness Birthdays Its been an interesting journey on birthday celebrations for me personally. Going back to my childhood and I have some fond memories of birthday celebrations organized by my mother in whatever place we happened to be. No small feat given the transient nature of many of our homes. Thinking back I am not […]
After many years of living in the DC Metro area, I finally managed to attend the HealthData Palooza event at the Washington Hilton (famous for amongst other things the Assassination attempt of Ronald Regan) that first took place in 2010 – created in part as a response to the then newly established Website and database […]
Despite living in the DC Metro area for many years I have never managed to attend this event finding myself unavailable and traveling outside the area. This year I was able to attend the 4th Annual event finding it had grown by 15% from the previous year and now boasts over 700 attendees with an incredibly rich set of […]
Today is Earth Day – an annual event designed to raise awareness of the environment and protection of our planet – this year the focus is on Ending Plastic Pollution Plastic Clean up from the Ocean People come together to celebrate this stunning planet and show support for protecting the environment – everything from simple […]
The Toxic Drumbeat The Toxic drumbeat of the 24/7/365 News Cycle is impacting us all and brought home to me as I was sitting in a waiting room assaulted by the never-ending talking heads on a television playing in the corner of the room proved too much to me this morning. There were others in […]
Patient Status Critical The threat level in Cyberspace keeps rising as evidenced by the recent alerts issued by the US Government (TA18-074A) and the long list of indicators of Compromise (IOC) Targeting critical infrastructure with an extensive list of tools, attacks, and techniques. While this is not new, with cases dating back to Stuxnet in 2007 […]
In the spirit of survival given the overwhelming nature of joining 40,000 people at one conference, I offer up this year’s Incremental Guidance to not only surviving the HIMSS conference but enjoying it too (you can find my HIMSS16 Guide here). This will be my 21st HIMSS and 3rd year as a Social Media ambassador and every year […]
If you’re like me, you’re always trying to find the best deals on your credit card, cable, and phone providers. That may mean calling up every 12 months to renegotiate annual contracts—or threatening to cancel. But for many people, the cost of putting in this time and effort is too high, so they just renew […]
Diverse Engaging and Eclectic What other conferences can you attend that offers you exercise and revitalization programs, alongside engaging presentations from key leaders in some of the top companies in pharmaceuticals, technology, healthcare and a demonstration environment packed with the latest and greatest innovations and technologies? The CNS Summit – now in its 8th year […]
What are my BigIdeas2018 for the healthcare industry? They revolve around 3 topics: Security, Data, and Virtual care Technology continues to move at an exponential pace, leaving virtually no industry untouched. Healthcare is no exception – the technological progress in this space is offering incredible opportunities to improve the health of our population, reduce costs […]
