| Articles by Chris Cole |
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| |  | The VeriChip Implantable Microchip: The Future of Patient Identification
The VeriChip has had its share of controversy. Is it Big Brother watching? Can it really be implemented? Is its use in healthcare warranted? Read on to discover more. |
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| |  | 24 Tools No Doctor Should Be Without
Modern MDs have a vast array of tools and information at their disposal that can help them deliver better care to their patients, run their practices more efficiently, and stay up to date. |
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| |  | Into the Next Dimension: Researchers Develop 4-D Computer Image of Human Body
Imagine a world in which a patient's diagnostic results can be merged into one image in one place so that all specialists who see that patient can work together more closely, cadavers aren't needed... |
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| |  | Retainer-Based Medicine: Making Patients VIPs
How would you like to obtain patient satisfaction upward of 100%, a patient load between 100 and 1,000 that allows for much more time spent with each and more time to research illnesses and... |
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| |  | Too Eager to Please? Are Drugs, Supplements, and Devices Approved Too Quickly in the US?
We've all heard about the Vioxx, Celebrex, and Bextra withdrawals; the debate over the safety and efficacy of the US drug and device approval processes has been well-traversed. But what is much... |
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| |  | Posting Health Costs Online
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is posting health costs online. Will this Health Care Cost Estimator work, and why are they doing it? |
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| |  | How Green is Your Practice?
The world's natural resources are quickly vanishing, and a tremendous amount of reusable materials are being wasted at rapid speed every day. What can you do in your office to make a difference? |
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| |  | ADHD-induced Lost Productivity Affects us All
People with ADHD who are out in the workforce perform 22.1 fewer days of work every year —a compilation of 8.4 days when they were unable to work. |
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| |  | Military Setting the Bar for EMRs: Part I of II
The origins of the VA’s EMR system (VistA) emerged back in the late 1970s, when a group of physicians began writing its original code. |
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| |  | Behavior Screening Via Computer
The leading causes of adolescent morbidity and death are injury risk, depressive symptoms, and substance use, all of which are clinically relevant to psychiatry.
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| |  | Online Psychiatric Treatment Programs
Sleep in adults can be significantly improved with a six-week cognitive behavioral intervention for insomnia delivered via the Internet. |
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| |  | Military Setting the Bar for EMRs: Part II of II
While the VA’s VistA system keeps patients’ records available among all VA system locations, the Army has its own way of recording and storing patient records. |
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| |  | Automated MRI Technique Makes Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Faster
A new automated MRI measures brain tissue and can help physicians diagnose Alzheimer’s disease quicker and more accurately at an earlier stage. |
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| |  | The Push for E-communication
A new rule proposed by CMS would allow physicians to bill for follow-up, inpatient e-consultations, specific to follow-up telehealth delivery. |
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| |  | The Elusive Alzheimer’s Cure
It seems like every time you turn around there’s another “breakthrough” in Alzheimer’s disease research. So why hasn't a cure been found? |
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| |  | What does a Best Hospital ranking mean to a hospitalist?
U.S. News & World Report just came out with its list of “America’s Best Hospitals – 2008,” with hospitals ranked based on factors within 16 specialties, from cancer to urology. Do they mean anything? |
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| |  | Intensive Early Psychosis Intervention Doesn’t Go the Distance
Although studies show early intervention to be effective in reducing psychotic symptoms in patients with first-episode psychosis, the benefits aren’t sustainable. |
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| |  | Will Psychiatrists Treat Obesity?
If the results of a Tufts University rat study hold true for humans, the chances are good that obesity will be treated as an addictive behavior in the future. |
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| |  | The End of Psychotherapy?
There is a small, yet important, downward trend in the number of office-based psychiatrists providing psychotherapy to their patients, according to a new report published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. |
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| |  | Pediatric Psychiatry Patients Undertreated
Only 25% or so of the 15 million children in the US who are diagnosed with a mental disorder receive appropriate treatment based on scientific evidence. |
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| |  | Self-destructing Precancerous Cells
Rockefeller University scientists have found a way using mice to amplify the signals that trigger cells to die when they begin to multiply. |
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| |  | The ADD Drug Diet
Its no secret to most physicians that stimulants cause a feeling of euphoria and loss of appetite. The problem extends well beyond Hollywood and Adderall. |
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