Timely Insights for Healthcare Experts
Next Gen Now: Telemedicine & E-visits
The Tech Savvy Uprising With patients and providers alike becoming more tech-savvy, it is no surprise that technology is increasingly being implemented to facilitate the patient-physician relationship. Telemedicine, which is defined as the remote diagnosis and...
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Mental Health Within COVID-19 Pandemic
Pandemic Affiliated Stressors With change, stress, and uncertainty comes many questions and worries. Since the pandemic of the COVID-19 began, there has been an increased threat of mental illnesses. There are not stressors solely from attempting to stay healthy and...
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Will COVID-19 Force Us to Finally Accept Telemedicine?
Unavoidable Adaptation to Telemedicine The COVID-19 Pandemic has proved to be a truly strange time for everyone. Patients and providers alike agree social distancing has had its negatives. But perhaps the burden that has been put on society will be the driving force...
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PEPID at HIMSS20 Digital
Experience the education and innovation of the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition… virtually. PEPID is participating in the effort to continue collaborating with the healthcare information and management systems community despite the conference's...
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COVID-19 Compiled Resources from PEPID
With the constantly evolving nature of the COVID-19 outbreak, PEPID's goal is to be a source of evidence-based, reliable information for the healthcare community. PEPID will continue to rapidly review and update its resources concerning the COVID-19 outbreak within...
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Wuhan Coronavirus arrives in the US
PEPID News: Coronavirus arrives in US The CDC and WHO are closely monitoring an outbreak of caused by a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) originating in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The outbreak was reported to the WHO on December 31, 2019. Since then, the death toll has...
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Women In Medicine Month: Podcast Spotlight
In honor of Women in Medicine Month, we are highlighting our favorite podcasts led or co-led by women in medicine! The More the Merrier In recent years there has been an increasing number of women in medicine. Since 2018, more women than men have been applying and...
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Blood Test to Predict Alzheimer’s 94% Accurate
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO recently reported a game changing blood test that could significantly decrease the cost of clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease. The findings, published August 1st in the journal Neurology,...
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Rock It Like A Surgeon
According to a study by Figure 1 and Spotify 90% of surgeons and surgical residents listen to music in the operating theater, and the most popular genre of the 700 surgeons from more than 50 countries surveyed is rock at 49% and pop at 48%. Classical followed closely...
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Don’t Go Camping Without These T.I.P.S. for Summer Injuries
Summer is in full swing, and what better way to welcome the hottest time of the year than with a fun-filled weekend in the great outdoors. Whether you're unwinding in a private cabin in the woods or pitching a cozy tent by the lake, too much exposure and too little...
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Novel FDA Drug Approvals: February-May 2019
Every year, the US FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) releases a list of newly-approved novel drugs and therapeutic biological products. Last year's Novel Drug Approvals list holds the record for the most number of approved drugs, effectively...
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Self-Care Calendar for Nurses: 30 Days of Self-Care to Prevent Burnout
Nurses Have it Rough While a 3-day weekly work schedule and constant hiring demand may sound like a dream, many nurses wage a constant battle against burnout. A 2017 survey of over 600 American nurses between the ages of 25 and 55 revealed 50% have considered leaving...
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An Infographic World Immunization Week
About World Immunization Week World Immunization Week is a global public health campaign to raise awareness and increase rates of immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases around the world. World immunization week takes place each year during the last week of...
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PEPIDPrimer: 10 Basic Critical Appraisal Questions for Healthcare Professionals and Librarians
Using Critical Appraisal to Find the Best Resources in the Midst of 'Information Overload' The rise of evidence-based practice (EBP) has been transformative in accomplishing value-based provider goals and improving patient outcomes. Over 12,000 new articles are...
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DO Your Part, Doc! How Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine Can Save an Aging America
A 2018 report conducted for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) by IHS Inc paints a grim picture for the increasing healthcare demands of a growing & aging population with a physician supply that is struggling to keep up. The predicted physician...
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Starting the Conversations with your Patients to Donate Life
As a trusted health professional, your words on the topic can greatly impact perspectives on being an organ donor, help see through myths, and, at the very least, help people remember that donating is important. Consider this: If you are responsible for encouraging...
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Diagnosis or Wake Up Call? How to Educate and Motivate the Prediabetic Patient
1 in 4 Adults are Still Unaware That They are Living with Diabetes. For how seriously debilitating and life-altering diabetes can be for about 30.3 million diagnosed Americans, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) estimates that nearly 1 in 4 adults, or 7.2 million...
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PEPID’s Founder and CEO Discusses the Challenges and Merits of PGx
Founder and CEO, Mark Rosenbloom, MD, MBA joins PEPID Pulse’s Implementing Precision Medicine live broadcast series at HIMSS 2019. Dr. Rosenbloom’s talk, “Implementing Precision Medicine in the Clinical Setting: Challenges and Rewards” expounds on: Pharmacogenomics’...
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Precision without Fatigue: Focusing on User-experience and Technology to Improve Patient Outcomes
PEPID’s Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Edward Reynolds joins the Pulse during HIMSS 2019 to talk about the development strategy and objectives behind the company’s most cutting-edge release. His talk, “Precision without Fatigue: Focusing on...
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