Nick van Terheyden, M.D.

Insights to how overexposure to radiation can be reduced and how changing our microbiomes can lead to a healthier life.

As care moves out of the hospital, healthcare must grapple with a number of issues.

Actionable insights to reduce the likelihood of medical errors and improvements in our understanding of sleep hygiene.

How foolproofing anesthesia-delivery tube connections and putting R&D dollars into longer-acting injectables can improve efficiency and reduce risk.

Healthcare data security and patient vaccine adherence should be viewed as investments, not costs.

Over half of all people with cancer experienced house repossession, bankruptcy, loss of independence, and relationship breakdowns. That’s a bleak picture.

Get with the federally mandated program and make the release of medical records easier for patients.

The auto industry standardized critical control location in cars to allow anyone with knowledge on any car to operate all cars safely. But our EMR systems have been developed piecemeal, to the detriment of its users.

Why we’re thinking about EMRs all wrong, and how mhealth gives us new windows into the human body.

Following Hurricane Florence, many patients are finding access to their latest records and treatments is improved thanks to the resilience of digitized records and their cloud backups.

Apple's newest wearable has the potential to open new doors to yet unimagined ideas and concepts in healthcare. It also has the potential to freak people out for no good reason, and overburden physicians.

The intake form has replaced many of the questions doctors ask at the beginning of a visit, but it's done so to the detriment of patient engagement in an attempt at efficiency and billing optimization, and remains firmly stuck in the dark ages.

If you have patient engagement anywhere in your strategy, position statement, or marketing material, then you should have an open, honest, patient-friendly and transparent billing system.

On the inaugural episode of Blunders & Wonders, Dr. Nick Van Terheyden tackles e-cigs and Seqster, a new digital health integration app.