MedTouch Blog – Making Healthcare Interactive

MedTouch Webinar: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Healthcare, Part II from MedTouch on Vimeo. The news about the financial sector meltdown is everywhere, but how will it impact healthcare? In this second part of a special webinar, Paul Griffiths, the CEO of MedTouch, will walk through how the sub-prime crisis led into [...]

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We’ve done a fair amount of research this year on the impact of the physician shortage and how it will hamstring the marketing, planning, and delivery of healthcare services in the future. The silent killer is patient access.   The less chance a patient has of being seen quickly, the worse off he or she [...]

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Of my last post about open source food, Jeff Jarvis commented: I wasn’t suggesting that the kitchen should be turned over. I’m exploring the ideas of openness even in restaurants. For example, I’d like to know which dishes get ordered more so I can use that in my decision. Or perhaps diners can suggest improvements [...]

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Here’s a no-brainer from the Atlantic: dingy hospitals rooms have a negative impact on patient care. Over the past decade, most public places have gotten noticeably better looking. We’ve gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your [...]

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From our sister blog, adamcontent.com, is this post about what consumers actually want.  (Hint: It’s not 64-ct scanners.) http://adamcontent.com/hospital-patients-want-convenience/ 

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Forbes magazine’s recent issue has a cover with a patient escaping from an ER, wearing only a paper johnny, and the text “Stop That Patient!  Big, risky hospitals don’t want you going to small rivals — where you could have safer, better surgery.”  You can read the article, entitled “Bad Medicine“, on Forbes’ website, but [...]

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