As health care reform marches on, there is continued pressure to deliver care for lower-cost and higher quality in order to provide more value. With smart phone technology becoming ubiquitous in the general population, leveraging this patient owned resource has become the focus of both large Silicon Valley-based corporations as well as independent technology entrepreneurs. […]
One year of “The Academic Surgeon”
The AAS Blog “The Academic Surgeon” celebrates its first year of existence, and in that time has made available dozens of articles, ideas and opinions to the AAS community. Created to help AAS keep a dynamic presence outside of its national meeting, the blog is our online digital forum for news, insight and discussion, including […]
Introducing the AAS Blog
As technology and social media have become an ever-important method for networking and dissemination of science, we as a society must leverage digital media in order to best serve our community. The digital world represents a tremendous opportunity to improve the AAS membership’s ability to network but in order to do so we must keep a dynamic presence outside the confines of our national meeting.