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...Patient-Centric Care Delivered with Patient-Friendly Apps
How to deliver patient-centric information By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA What if you could find out what your health care team is doing at any given moment while you wait in the emergency department or you are an admitted patient in the hospital. Dr. Bill Crounse, host of Health Tech Today talks with Microsoft researchers; Dan Morris and Amy Karlson (part of the team of Microsoft researchers) and they are investigating this question, “How…
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…
Read More...Speaking Event: Patient Engagement and Social Networking at Eyeforpharma Conference
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I’m thrilled to be an invited to speaker at the Eyeforpharma – Customer Centric Marketing for Pharma USA 2011 Conference in Philadelphia, PA, June 27 – 28, 2011. The title of my presentation is, “Empower patients to take charge of their health care.” – Discover the best practices in patient engagement through social networking. Speakers include: Eric Dube,Vice President, Oncology, GlaxoSmithKline Sheila Ryan, Group Leader, DDMAC, FDA Harold Johns,…
Read More...Fill Up on Fiber to Fight Cancer
Guest post submitted by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center When you think fiber, what comes to mind? Your favorite breakfast bar or a sugar substitute with added fiber? Think again! The best source of this important nutrient is natural plant-based foods. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), plant-based foods rich in dietary fiber may reduce your risk for colorectal cancer. That’s because the more fiber you consume, the less…
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