Healthcare in China: Ripe for innovation?

Healthcare in China: Ripe for innovation?

I’ve just returned from 11 days of traveling through Hong Kong and China, as part of a personal quest to try to understand China’s role on the global stage in various industries.  One thing that I was told repeatedly during my time there is that one of the biggest problems facing China today is the healthcare system. There were a variety of...

A Tropical Adventure: Providing Medical Care in Haiti

The following article was originally published on February 13, 2011 in The Monroe Patch Online by Bill Bittar. Lee Crouch is our talented Vice President of Business Development at MedTouch, and a veteran of healthcare marketing. In addition to her position at MedTouch, Lee serves as President of the New England Society of Healthcare...

Why Wikipedia Can’t Fix Healthcare

Craig Stoltz from the Health Care Blog writes: There are many good reasons to deplore Wikipedia, not the least of which is its authors’ cultish smuggery about the righteousness of their cause and the rightness of their content. Of course there is also its internecine complexity of processes. The documentation tracing the petty bitchery about an...

A shocking expose on an under-reported hospital problem

Grandfathers Accidentally Switched At Hospital LOS ANGELES—Hospital officials informed Janice Redding that the man her family knew as “Grandpa” for the past half-year actually belonged to someone...

A new reality show: America’s Next Top Surgeon?

My wife and I have been watching the latest wave of reality TV shows — Oprah’s Big Give, etc. — and I thought, with all the new rankings of hospitals and physicians out there, perhaps we could combine the two. I title it “America’s Next Top Surgeon” and it would go something like this. We pick 10 nationally...

On the flight home today…

I thought this seat sign was particularly good: “Please let a USAirways Express crewmember know if you are not able to read, speak, or understand...

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