The Rounds - Marshfield Clinic Health System

Technology is changing how health care is delivered. Tools like remote patient monitoring relay vital health information from a patient at home to their care team at a medical complex. Patients can download smart phone apps that allow them to connect virtually with their providers and skip the drive to the doctor's office.

Listen as Chris Meyer, Marshfield Clinic Health System’s director of virtual health, discusses how this field, called telehealth or telemedicine, is helping patients now, what the future may hold and challenges to implementing this technology on a large scale.

The Rounds: How telemedicine is changing health care (text transcription)

Our lives are busier than ever. Between work, raising kids, maintaining social lives and keeping smart phones glued to our hands, it can be hard to unwind. Meditation and mindfulness practices can reduce depression and anxiety, improve your mood and help you perform better at work.

Listen as Dr. Jennifer Michels, a Marshfield Clinic psychologist, details the incredible and fascinating benefits of meditation and mindfulness.

The Rounds: Train your brain with meditation and mindfulness (text transcription)

It makes sense that health care could be customized to each person based on what makes them unique. Precision medicine aims to do exactly that. It is a model of providing health care customized to individuals based on their unique biological makeup, lifestyle and living environment.

Listen as Dr. Murray Brilliant, former director of Marshfield Clinic Research Institute’s Center for Human Genetics, discusses precision medicine, its future and a nationwide research program aimed at advancing the field.

The Rounds: The promise of precision medicine (text transcription)

Internet-connected devices are everywhere, including in kids' hands. How should parents handle this digital revolution? How does being constantly connected affect child development? We discussed these topics and much more with Marshfield Clinic Health System child psychologist, Dr. Stephanie Kohlbeck. Listen now.

The Rounds: Kids in the digital age (text transcription)