Panning for gold in Alibaba’s electric vehicle catalog is bound to find some real doozies, such as this week’s Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. Meet this fun little purple three-wheeled electric car that barely manages to fulfill the requirements of a car. The “Minitype 3 Seater Passenger Electric Passenger Tricycle” is quite […]
The first time Dr. Peter Hackett saw a patient with frostbite, the man died from his wounds. It was in Chicago in 1971, and the man had gotten drunk and passed out in the snow, his fingers so frozen that gangrene eventually set in. Dr. Hackett later worked at Mount Everest Basecamp, on Denali, Alaska, […]
Appointment cancellations and financial distress have become a constant at Bethesda Pediatrics, a nonprofit medical clinic in East Texas that is heavily dependent on Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor. On a recent Monday, the mother of a toddler who had a primary care appointment broke down in tears after learning the child […]
As the healthcare industry continues to move toward cloud-based services and technology, providers are exploring migrations of their electronic health record applications to public cloud environments, where advantages include lower costs, improved flexibility and integration with new technologies. Healthcare organizations using the EHR platform Epic can consider migrating to Azure, Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, for everything […]
Healthcare Organizations Are Feeling Empowered to Change HealthTech welcomes the first quarter of 2024 with stories from healthcare leaders who are helping to drive transformation at their organizations. In “3 Health Tech Trends to Watch in 2024,” Indiana-based Reid Health is improving its self-service capabilities to streamline IT operations and improve efficiencies. “If you build […]
