Don’t Just Take the Doctor’s Orders. Understand it!
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."

July 29, 2017

Don’t Just Take the Doctor’s Orders. Understand it!

Dr. Google vs. Med SchoolAfter each visit with my primary care doctor, I get a one-page letter in the mail saying my blood counts, liver and kidney functions, blood sugar, cholesterol and remainder of my lab work were “all within normal limits.” I, then, get an email with a multi-page PDF “Summary of Visit” that […]

Digital Health

What Does The US Spend on Health Care
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."

April 27, 2017

What Does The US Spend on Health Care

Where Does All That Money Go?With all the news and talk these days about health care costs and who pays for what, I’ve taken more of an interest in what we as a country spend and who pays…the big picture so to speak.My curiosity was sparked by two articles I came across that cited the […]

Health Care

Don’t be a Patient. Be a Partner with Doctors to Better Your Health
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."

March 27, 2017

Don’t be a Patient. Be a Partner with Doctors to Better Your Health

We need to consolidate and centralize our health dataGrowing up in post-WWII America seems, in retrospect, to have been a lot simpler. (I was a kid, of course.) This was life before computers, cable, wi-fi, and smartphones gave us ready access to vast stores of information and advice on almost any topic.I’m not saying things […]

Caregivers

Why is Medication Adherence So Difficult for So Many?
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.

March 27, 2017

Why is Medication Adherence So Difficult for So Many?

Turn Medication Adherence to Medication Dedication, but How?Looking at my prescriptions lined up on the counter, I realized although they’re written by my doctors for good reason, I don’t always take them as directed on a consistent basis. For whatever reason, I subconsciously assign importance to each based on my perception of the severity of […]

Digital Health

Your Healthcare Data is Everywhere…Except Where You Need It
Michael McShea

Michael McShea

February 18, 2017

Your Healthcare Data is Everywhere…Except Where You Need It

In a previous blog, Want your health records? Don’t let HIPAA stand in the way, McShea addressed how you can access your health data electronically using resources like http://getmyhealthdata.org/. Consumers who seek their personal healthcare data online may find some of it, but never in one place.How did this happen? After all, you can get all your […]

Digital Health

If you can measure Health, you can manage Health!
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."

February 16, 2017

If you can measure Health, you can manage Health!

Taking Healthy MeasuresEarly in my career l was taught ”what gets measured gets managed” and its corollary: “If you can measure it, you can manage it.” It’s an old saying that some have traced back to the Middle Ages…and others to management guru Peter Drucker. In my case, as a reporter, writer, and editor, that […]

Digital Health

5 Steps to Avoid Missed Diagnosis or Misdiagnoses
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."

January 16, 2017

5 Steps to Avoid Missed Diagnosis or Misdiagnoses

Navigate through this Medical WorldEvery Tuesday in the Washington Post’s Health and Science section Sandra Boodman tells the story of a medical mystery. There’s a condition multiple doctors failed to diagnose and treat for years until one finally stumbles on the cause and solves the mystery. She’s been chronicling these cases for some 10 years and […]

Caregivers

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

Reforming the Healthcare Industry, Putting the Patient First!
Michael McShea

Michael McShea

November 30, 2016

Reforming the Healthcare Industry, Putting the Patient First!

ICmed kicks off the Digital Health Collaborative We as consumers have come to expect that the companies we do business with know who we are, know what we like, and provide us with convenient ways to interact with them to get what we need. I spent several years in the contact center industry developing advanced […]

Digital Health