Secrets to Living a Long Life
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 13, 2017

Secrets to Living a Long Life

What’s Loma Linda, CA, Got the Rest of Us Don’t?Brothers Nick and Dan Buettner wanted to know what it takes to live a long, healthy and happy life. Sure, they know that eating right, exercising, and taking your meds as prescribed are part of the answer. But not the whole answer. So they decided to […]

Family

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

Don’t Get a Bad Case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)!
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 3, 2017

Don’t Get a Bad Case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)!

Learning about health is different from actually being actively healthy. Don’t miss out on life!Since I started paying more attention to health-related news and information, I find I’m spending more time than I’d like online, going through emails and Facebook postings (though I rarely post anything myself). I’m mostly retired now, so I have the […]

Healthy Living

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