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Care Coordination, The Holy Grail of Good Medicine

by Nancy Finn | Oct 24, 2017 | 0 comments

Appropriate patient care revolves around a team of individuals that includes the patient, a variety of clinicians and other providers, caretakers and patient advocates. The members of this team must collaborate to ensure that the best possible decisions are made on...

Closing the Gaps in South African Health

by Nancy Finn | Jun 2, 2017 | 3 comments

Guest post by SPM member Vanessa Carter. See bio at end. In many countries globally, the e-Patient revolution has raised many significant questions about the role of empowered patients in an integrated health system, particularly with expanding access to Information...

How Data Registries Help with Full Information at the Point of Care

by Nancy Finn | May 10, 2017 | 2 comments

The practice of medicine is shifting from episodic patient care to care focused on addressing many broad-based, unique, sometimes esoteric health conditions. Fueling this transition is a new focus on patient reported outcomes and health data registries that aggregate...

Why We Are Losing the Battle Against Infectious Disease

by Nancy Finn | Nov 2, 2016 | 2 comments

Antibiotics and similar drugs, called antimicrobial agents, have been used successfully for the last 70 years to treat patients who have infectious diseases. However, these drugs have been used so widely and for so long, that the infectious organisms the antibiotics...

Fighting Cybercrime: One Hacker at a Time

by Nancy Finn | Jun 1, 2016 | 0 comments

Computer Crime is the misuse of a computer or associated electronic networking system in order to commit illegal and unlawful acts. Computer crimes range from the illegal use of the internet to the unlawful accessing of information stored in computer systems. In...

Cancer: What’s Happening in the Lab that will Change Diagnosis and Treatment?

by Nancy Finn | May 5, 2016 | 0 comments

When a patient receives a diagnosis of cancer it is life changing. Even after treatment and assurance that you are in remission, the cancer threat is never far away. Every time you go for a screening, the fear returns to haunt that maybe this time they will find...

2016: Opportunities and Challenges in Health Care

by Nancy Finn | Jan 12, 2016 | 0 comments

In 2016, mHealth technology will occupy center stage in transforming clinical care and clinical research. Smartphone-linked wearable sensors will turn science fiction into reality as these mobile diagnostic tools provide the in depth information that enables ...

Alternative Choices for Healthcare: What are the Options?

by Nancy Finn | Dec 23, 2015 | 0 comments

I was at dinner with friends recently when I noticed that my right thumb was red, swollen and painful. One of my friends is a biochemist and instructed me to immediately soak the finger in hot water. I continued our social evening dipping my right thumb in and out...

Global Forum on Health Promotion Focuses on Health Equity and e-Health

by Nancy Finn | Nov 25, 2015 | 2 comments

I recently spoke at the 5th Global Forum on Health Promotion, organized by the Alliance for Health Promotion, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and the Global Health Program at the Graduate...

Misdiagnosis: A Chronic Condition Looking for a Cure

by Nancy Finn | Nov 4, 2015 | 3 comments

According to a report in the BMJ Quality and Safety Journal, each year in the U.S. approximately 12 million adults or 1 out of 20 patients who seek outpatient medical care, are misdiagnosed in a way that could cause severe harm. These alarming statistics are further...

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