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Why do I have a feeling that my 7 month old daughter is going to use this story http://tinyurl.com/apwxnc5 against me when refusing to eat her brussel sprouts – a Smith Family favorite. Access to info is enlightening but so is making sure children eat their sprouts. As a HC practioner always on the prowl for interesting clinical studies and peer reviewed papers and the almighty google search box has never made it easier – or more entertaining – to…

As we speed towards the 2013 installment of HIMSS in NOLA I’m attending with the expectation that the ‘industry’ is bombarding clinicians with so much content that they are unable to process, understand and actually do something to improve the quality of care – while naturally reducing the cost.

Seems like the smart phone/personal portable tablet-ish device’s real estate can’t take many more apps of ‘functionality’ if the goal is to improve the care and reduce the cost. From what I…

As practitioners of healthcare public relations and marketing, we urge everyone (those involved in healthcare and not) to pause and recognize the extraordinary life of Mr. James Burke, the former CEO of Johnson & Johnson who has passed away last week.

For those who only think of Tylenol as a pain medication, let me remind you of one of the worst tampering epidemics in consumer history. In the fall of 1982, seven people died as a result of cyanide laced Tylenol capsules…