Secret Shoppers in the Doctor’s Waiting Room- A Twist on Pay for Perfomance
Image Depicts Doctor'sWaiting Room Flow Plan Image Depicts Doctor'sWaiting Room Flow PlanOn a prior posting, I opposed using secret shoppers to evaluation medical offices. I admit, however, that physicians’ office…
Telehealth: Usage and Guidelines
It is touted that telehealth, video conferencing, telemedicine and mobile health applications will assist in reducing the cost of medical visits. However, CMS has thus far not addressed reimbursement. TeleMedicine encompasses…
Crowdfunding American Veterans – A Brilliant Idea
So, I was chatting with David Marlett, JD, CPA, Founder and Executive Director of the National CrowdFunding Association and he told me about CAV – Crowdfunding American Veterans, an initiative…
Woefully Unprepared: America and the the Mental Health Needs of the Elderly
“The burden of mental illness and substance abuse disorders in older adults in the United States borders on a crisis.” ~ Dr. Dan Blazer, Duke UniversityStating the obvious can be a particularly…
Is There a Moral Duty to Buy Health Insurance?
This question was answered in the affirmative by Tina Rulli, Ezekiel Emanuel, and David Wendler in the July 11, 2012 issue of JAMA. Let me take you through their arguments.They…
Dog X-Ray Scores Patient a Prescription of Pain Killers and a Bust From the Police At Urgent Care Center
The X-Ray even had the tail in the picture. The doctor had been under surveillance and the patient bringing in the x-ray of the dog was an under cover cop.…
More Bad News on Tobacco
The number of states hiking cigarette taxes to raise revenue while curbing smoking has slowed to a crawl.Just one state, Illinois, has enacted a tobacco tax increase in 2012. That’s…
Obesity Burns Gas
Here is a fascinating statistic courtesy of The Atlantic.Thanks to the startling rise in obesity, every year Americans consume at least a billion gallons more gas today than they would…
HIT Bloggers to Follow on Twitter
Earlier this week I was named as one of 10 HIT bloggers to follow on Twitter by Healthcare IT News and it has generated quite a bit of traffic to my…
VA Will Use Telemedicine to Train Primary Care Docs
I’m always looking for signs that we are putting the necessary infrastructure in place to make quality healthcare more accessible.Case in point, the Department of Veteran Affairs plan to test…
