When it comes to my baby’s health, I trust my instincts
Michelle Riffer

Michelle Riffer

Michelle Riffer is a Talent Resources Manager in the healthcare industry turned Stay-at-Home-Mom. She traded running between corporate meetings and board rooms, for running her 4 kids between activities, appointments and serving on the PTA Board. Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 6, Michelle has always had an interest in health and wellness, but it turned into a passion when she developed additional autoimmune issues and then struggled to treat Lyme and 3 other tick-borne diseases. After 3 of her children were diagnosed with Celiac, she made it her mission to research her family’s health history, identify food and environmental triggers and keep her family of 6 healthy while squeezing in time to enjoy life.

December 27, 2016

When it comes to my baby’s health, I trust my instincts

This blog is featured in Mother.lyAny parent will tell you that the uncertainty surrounding parental decisions, big and small, begins way before your little bundle arrives—OB or midwife? Home or hospital birth? Medicated or natural delivery? This is true especially if the decision potentially impacts your child’s future health.A few generations ago, parents weren’t nearly as […]

Children

TMI? Coffee’s good then it’s bad. Can we really believe the health experts?
Jerry Elprin

Jerry Elprin
ICmed,LLC

Jerry was born into what Time magazine once dubbed the “Silent Generation,” sandwiched between the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. From that perspective, he brings his thoughts and observations on living “healthy” in today’s fast-changing, hyper-connected, often “disruptive” digitized world. After college and a hitch in the Army, he’s worked as a reporter, editor, and marketing executive while raising three now-grown children. He says "So much of what’s considered 'healthy' has changed and is often contradicting what I learned growing up."

December 8, 2016

TMI? Coffee’s good then it’s bad. Can we really believe the health experts?

I like to consider myself well informed. I read, I listen and take in a lot of news and information, and recently began taking more notice of and interest in health-related topics.  Not just because I find myself taking more pills as I age, but also because there’s so much of it coming at me […]

Healthy Living

That Change from Paper to Internet: Health, Patient Portals, Appointments and Requests
Jerry Elprin

Jerry Elprin
ICmed,LLC

Jerry was born into what Time magazine once dubbed the “Silent Generation,” sandwiched between the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. From that perspective, he brings his thoughts and observations on living “healthy” in today’s fast-changing, hyper-connected, often “disruptive” digitized world. After college and a hitch in the Army, he’s worked as a reporter, editor, and marketing executive while raising three now-grown children. He says "So much of what’s considered 'healthy' has changed and is often contradicting what I learned growing up."

December 1, 2016

That Change from Paper to Internet: Health, Patient Portals, Appointments and Requests

Steve Case, co-founder and CEO of America Online, former chairman of AOL Time Warner and now CEO of investment firm REVOLUTION, sees a revolution ahead in what he calls the “Third Wave” of the internet. In his new book, “The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future”, Case predicts the “ubiquitous connectivity” of the […]

Digital Health