By Gianna Loscascio and Beth S. Slomine Cambridge University Press This book provides a comprehensive resource for the topic of cognitive rehabilitation for children with neurological disorders. The authors define the term cognitive rehabilitation broadly, describing it as "an intervention designed to compensate or ameliorate the impact of cognitive and behavioral effects … [Read more...] about Book Review: Cognitive Rehabilitation for Pediatric Neurological Disorders
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Book Review: Life Care Planning and Case Management
-By Roger O. Weed, Debra E. Berens - Reviewed by: Cloie B. Johnson In this fourth edition Dr. Weed and Dr. Berens have again partnered as co-editors, enlisting 42 contributors, to provide a comprehensive resource for up to date issues in case management and life care planning. The intended audience is anyone who interfaces with life care planning. Consumers would include … [Read more...] about Book Review: Life Care Planning and Case Management
Book: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
By Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg 506 pp. Boston, Harvard Business School Press, 2006 The US healthcare system is tremendously complex in magnitude with delivery models fraught with high costs and variable outcomes. Under the current system of incentives, costs continue to escalate due to variation in care, and fragmentation of … [Read more...] about Book: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
BioDigital: 3D Human Visualization Platform for Anatomy and Disease
By Ronald Savage, EdD Since President Obama announced Project Brain (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), scientists have focused upon exploring and understanding the human brain like never before. We have been rapidly expanding our knowledge through fMRI, PET, ECoG, and we are now even “Google mapping” the human brain and body. The BioDigital … [Read more...] about BioDigital: 3D Human Visualization Platform for Anatomy and Disease