Healthcare Policy and Opinion

We Have Inadvertently Built Cultural Discrimination Into Our Healthcare Systems

We build and use discriminatory Healthcare Systems. Unintentional by design, these systems propagate inequality in patient care and promote racial…

4 years ago

Covid Vaccines Just Took a Major Step Toward Regaining Credibility

There will be no enforced Covid vaccinations across Europe and the US. You may not realize this, but the law…

4 years ago

America’s Front-line Disease Defense System has Broken Down

Approximately 84 million adults — more than 1 in 3 Americans — have prediabetes. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 90% of…

4 years ago

The Journey from Analog Patient to Virtual Health Consumer

Provider behavior must follow patient-consumer behavior. Health systems and physicians that are slow to adopt could find themselves quickly falling…

4 years ago

Digital Health Should Have a Larger Voice in COVID-19 Detection

Have a voice? Have a smart phone? That’s all that may be needed to test vocal biomarkers, a non-invasive, democratic…

4 years ago

Texas Teachers Now Eligible for Covid-19 Vaccination

The Biden administration sent all states notice to change the vaccine categories. Texas vaccine providers may now vaccinate teachers and…

4 years ago

Dear Patient. Your Healthcare Data is No Longer Safe. Sincerely, HIPAA

HIPAA has not kept pace with the flood of digital technology swamping healthcare and it is in desperate need of…

4 years ago

The Ethics of A.I. in Healthcare Must Be Urgently Addressed

A.I. is critical to the growth of healthcare in the coming decade. It needs to be managed correctly and urgent…

4 years ago

Immunity Passports Are the Worst Idea to Come Out of the Pandemic

Immunity Passports reflecting our vaccine status for the Covid Vaccine are on the tips of everyone's tongue. Are these passports…

4 years ago

American Healthcare is in Danger of a Self-Inflicted Digital Drought

If American healthcare does not start cleaning house to enable digital innovation, it will pay the price, and inevitably, the…

4 years ago

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