In an undated press release from Sharp Health in San Diego an optimistic opinion was given for Obamacare. Several caveats however remain. In an undated press release…
Oh, for the day when medical records were on paper. In the blink of an eye, now millions of electronic medical records can be ‘carried off’ to…
The Indiana Health Information Exchange has what is most probably the longest track record in H.I.E. If time is of the essence for a product or service…
Are incentives a bribe?Incentives, rewards, penalties, fines, deadlines. Are they counterproductive? Probably so, amongst professionals.Many of these issues also apply to healthcare and medicine. Rushing to satisfy…
1581: Francis Drake, having completed the first circumnavigation of the world a few months earlier, is knighted by Queen Elizabeth aboard his ship, the Golden HindDo we…
At a time when mobile health initiatives and mobile apps are flooding the market, the Federal Communications Commission has shown enough interest to appointMatthew Quinn as Director…
What may be a new and disruptive technology in healthcare is being studied and developed at the MIT Little Devices Laboratory, part of the International Innovations and…
I was a big fan of Andy Rooney, that curmudgeon who reported television news in a manner that caught our attention, using a combination of disbelief and…
Five months after primary care doctors who treat Medicaid patients were supposed get a big pay raise, most physicians have yet to see it.While Medicaid fees vary…
