by Roger Ruiz | May 30, 2017 | Features, Healthcare Design
South Texas Blood & Tissue Center asks you to donate this summer Summer is a struggle for blood centers because high schools don’t have blood drives and many frequent donors are on vacation. But the need for blood remains constant. The South Texas Blood &...
by John Seybold | Apr 27, 2017 | Business, Healthcare Design, Legislation
Several steps have been taken in 2017 toward repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the introduction of the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Although the AHCA was withdrawn by Republicans, Congress may choose to pursue another ACA repeal and replacement...
by Jamo Rubin | Apr 27, 2017 | Health & Wellness, Healthcare Design
by Jamo Rubin, MD No one will ever accuse Will of being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. When Will was 6, his mother fled their abusive household leaving him and his three siblings behind. There were uncles and cousins in and out, and Will’s father would show up...
by Brian Baum | Mar 28, 2017 | Healthcare Design
SXSW 2017 My Panel Experience “Health Data WTF? We’ve been to the moon, but….” By Brian Baum The topic of health data – sharing, interoperability and connectivity receives more than its fair share of attention. HIMSS 2017 reinforced that, as did HIMSS 2016, 2015 and...
by Jamo Rubin | Feb 24, 2017 | Healthcare Design
They never saw it coming. Customers were streaming through the stores, sales continued to grow, and Americans in RVs were camping out in their enormous parking lots. The view from Bentonville, Arkansas was satisfyingly good. Meanwhile, in faraway Seattle, Jeff Bezos...
by Jen Torres | Feb 22, 2017 | Health & Wellness, Healthcare Design
People with arthritis face unique barriers to care: high costs of treatment, difficulty accessing medications, scarcity of specialists and coinsurance that limits access to treatment. Healthcare laws and policies are key factors to whether millions of Americans with...
