Ix: Information Therapy

Most people know by now that Electronic Medical Records got a boost from President Obama’s stimulus package- $19 billion to be precise. This money will help to incentivize hospitals and doctors to get moving. Currently, fewer than 20% of hospitals and 25% of physicians’ offices are fully automated. Obama’s administration believes that moving the dial […]

Credit Cards and Mental Health

High levels of debt are adding to overall anxiety In a current survey of fear levels sponsored by Woodbury Commons, over half the respondents stated that loss of job or income was a major source of distress. Not a surprising result under the currrent circumstances. We’ve known for some time that there are strong linkages […]

The Integrative Medicine Movement

Any combination of “medicine” and “philosophy” often is cause for deep skepticism. But a philosophy of medicine and, more importantly, health, need not seem so strange or incompatible with the evidence-based medicine with which we tend to be more comfortable. For integrative medicine, this philosophy is a strategy—a way to view and approach the public […]

Triple Jeopardy

Universal access to healthcare requires an adequate supply of doctors, but the numbers just don’t add up! With the economy in a tailspin and the traditional “blue chip” industries joining America’s bread lines, The Obama administration intends to restructure one of the last “cash cows” of the economy – the American healthcare system – to […]

Staying Healthy for Less

Our country is experiencing a financial downturn. People are jittery and scared. You can feel it in the air. What we need is a bit of a boost from people who have weathered adversity in the past. My nominee is Elfisio Farris, a first generation American from Sardinia, the large island off the western coast […]

Unhealthy Fears

There is apparently a great deal we don’t know about the current global financial crisis. But one thing we do know is that people are scared. And when people are scared, they not only make different decisions, but they make themselves sick as well. I will be studying fear levels at the "Woodbury Commons" polling […]

School Lunches

A smart destination for stimulus funding As the stimulus package has rolled out, I’ve been trying to think creatively. Where might we get the biggest bang for our buck? We want to create lasting infrastructure, jobs, and savings- long and short term. We want smart integrated solutions, close to home, right here on Main Street. […]