June 2008

Steve Case is on a mission to save healthcare, and he intends to do it by harnessing the consumer-empowering capabilities of the Internet.

The May issue of MDNG featured an article on implementing voice recognition software into practice. We posted a link to it on Sermo and asked members of that community to share their thoughts.

I thought I would use my column this month to discuss RevolutionHealth.com. After spending some time surfi ng around the site, I've concluded that it just might be the most over-hyped health information website ever launched. It's an all-around healthcare information portal, with a few interesting features, but there's nothing revolutionary at all.

Dr. Charlie Kemp, director of Georgia Tech's Center for Healthcare Robotics, discusses the laser-guided EL-E robot, which he created to help disabled patients pick up and manipulate objects.

10% of hospital admissions and 23% of nursing home admissions are due to the failure of a patient to take a prescription medication correctly, and as many as 59% of those taking fi ve or more medications are taking them improperly.

So you think you can dance... I mean, blog? Physicians who have something to say are increasingly turning to blogging to express themselves, as they find it an efficient way to communicate their passions.

Matthew Holt is a ubiquitous presence in the online world of Health 2.0. He is the proprietor of The Health Care Blog, essential reading that promises to tell you "everything you always wanted to know about the health care system.

The Internet has evolved beyond its origins as a collection of interconnected websites with static information.