Lifestyle

There are many gaps to realizing the full potential of digital health and helping patients and their families connect with doctors and other members of the care team using information and communications technologies (ICTs).

Technological advancements have had a profound impact on the practice of medicine, but they can also contribute to your overall financial health. Here are a few ways you can use tech to organize and optimize your finances.

Chances are, you've recommended or even prescribed exercise for your patients. But not everyone is excited about starting an exercise program. So how can you get patients inspired to move more?

For those that have the money available and the inclination, paying off a mortgage early or re-financing it might be the right strategy. Like most financial concerns, the ultimate decision will be highly personal. Here are some important questions to consider.

Anyone with a stressful day job knows the value of finding a good way to relax. Columnist Greg Kelly recalls how owning and riding horses proved to be a key stress-reliever for his physician-father.

Customers are expected to do more for themselves, whether it's in the grocery line, the gas station, the airline check-in counter, or of course, on online commerce sites. In the future, patients will be doing the same thing.

More than 41.9 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home this Independence Day, according to the American Automobile Association. Many of them will take along their favorite friends: their dogs. To ensure that your road trip with your 4-pawed companion remains fun and safe, follow these tips.

Recovery from the recession has been slow, but the Fed's decision to keep short-term rates low appears to be paying dividends now. Unemployment is down nationally, and other economic indicators are showing the potential for the next part of the economic cycle: a period of growth. The Fed is expected to raise short-term interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade.

Most doctors would take offense at being called a pill-pusher. However, the everyday work of a physician is filled with opportunities to make compromised prescribing decisions.

Key West's rich maritime history ought to earn it an X on your vacation travel map. This week, the story of a treasure ship buried deep beneath the sea for centuries, until a stubborn Florida explorer fought the odds--and the state--to claim the buried treasure.

Independence Day is just around the corner, which means cookouts and firework shows in major cities and rural backyards from sea to shining sea. If you want to see a massive fireworks display, head to one of these 10 cities.

Healthcare rationing is an inevitable consequence of having too few resources to satisfy an almost endless and escalating demand for services. The challenge is not to deny rationing, but to manage or mitigate it using an approach that optimizes inputs.

Many might believe being in the right place at the right time to be luck or mere coincidence. But Richard Guynes, MD, feels otherwise.

Running a large healthcare corporation may be a complex job, but it can also be very lucrative. This week's Critical List begins with a look at some of the highest-paid CEOs in the healthcare and pharma sectors.

Doctors ought to know better than anyone how late-in-life healthcare costs can deplete a person's retirement savings. Yet research suggests that, on average, physicians are just as unprepared for post-retirement healthcare costs as everyone else.

Scholarly publishing is using an outdated business model at a time when other industries are thriving through innovation.

In upholding King v. Burwell Thursday, the Supreme Court locked in tax hikes that will have significant implications for people in higher income brackets.

Good advice is the hardest quantity to come by. Fortunately for doctors, many of the hard-won lessons from the business world translate directly into the practice of medicine.

It's not just the new "lifestyle" brands--Moxy, Canopy, Hyatt Centric--that lure guests by creating experiences. Marriott, Fairmont, and other major hotel companies as well as many luxury properties also pitch packages and options to remember, or rather, to Tweet about.

While patients who use the Affordable Care Act's tax credits to buy health insurance are the most directly affected by the Supreme Court's King vs. Burwell ruling, the ripple effects of the decision are much wider.

Things going well with the medical practice? Putting enough money aside for retirement? Paying down that medical school debt? Taking good care of the kids? Great! But… about those kids…

Many people in the finance industry, such as financial advisors, are in the pretty position of making money whether their clients do or not. Their clients should remember whose boss and demand good performance.

Digital health tools are as much a part of medicine today as the stethoscope has been. Failing to teach digital health to medical students is like sending them to the front with blanks in their guns. It's educational malpractice.

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld nationwide subsidies for people who meet income qualifications and buy insurance on a federal or state marketplace. The plaintiffs had argued the subsidies were only authorized for state-run exchanges.

Survey after survey show that most of today's practicing doctors have become tired, irritable, and cynical about their once august profession. And why shouldn't they be? These strategies will help physicians get the most out of the challenging profession.

Getting doctors engaged on LinkedIn is as difficult as it is at the hospital. While it can be a useful tool, most clinicians will be LinkedOut and not engaged.

Travel has always been inextricably linked with romance, especially in films and fantasies. How we really feel about destinations and desire is the subject of the recently released survey.

Harry Truman loved to vacation in Key West. Today, he's become one of the main attractions in this easy-going tourist destination.