By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Healthin30 was recently notified by Healthline to announce the editors at Healthline nominated Healthin30 for the “Best Health Blog of 2011.” I’m honored to be included among the many wonderful health blogs. While the editors at Healthline nominated Healthin30, the winners are determined by the number of votes from followers and friends. Healthline will name the top three winners. Voting ends January 31, 2012 I’m getting a late start…
Read More...Telehealth, Remote Monitoring and Mobile Health
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Bill Crounse, MD, Senior Director, Worldwide Health, Worldwide Public Sector Microsoft Corporation shares his insights and describes four leading trends and technologies that will transform health and health care in 2012 and beyond. These leading technologies include: cloud computing, health gaming, telehealth services and remote monitoring/mobile health. Telehealth, Remote Monitoring, Mobile Health I’d like to focus on telehealth and remote monitoring/mobile health since I feel telehealth is the nucleus…
Read More...How to Repair and Sustain Relationships
Guest Post by Walter E. Jacobson, M.D. Practice forgiveness, acceptance, compassion, consideration, graciousness and generosity. Turn the other cheek. Treat others as you wish to be treated. Try to avoid getting defensive and angry. Give the benefit of the doubt. Don’t assume the worst. Don’t assume your partner did what they did to intentionally hurt you. There is always the possibility that it was a thoughtless comment, that they did not mean what they said…
Read More...Heart Disease in Women: Ladies, Love Your Heart All Year Long
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Featured in USATODAY.com | Grand Rounds – Health Tips American Heart Month may be officially over, but don’t let the lack of media attention fool you into thinking heart disease isn’t a critical issue. We still need to be mindful of the fact that heart disease is the number one killer of women. There are simple lifestyle choices you can make to help prevent you from heart disease. I…
Read More...Speaking Diabetes: A Guide from an Insider
Guest post by Miriam E. Tucker Just as physicians use abbreviations and terminology that sound like a foreign language to outsiders, patients who talk to each other on the Internet (and elsewhere) have developed their own quirky code words and phrases. Here’s some of the lingo used by those with diabetes: D-anything – Placing a “d” in front of any word makes it uniquely diabetically ours. One prominent example is DLife, the weekly CNBC television…
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