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…
Managed Care Outlook: Cloud Computing for Healthcare
Healthcare Moving to the Clouds Healthcare Moving to the CloudsRecently, Managed Care Outlook: The Insider’s Business Briefing on Managed Healthcare featured an interview by Attorney Tatiana Melnik of Dickinson Wright with…
ONC Considers Health Information Exchange Certification Program
With the advent of new telemedicine technologies, the secure exchange of medical information electronically is of the utmost importance in the healthcare industry. The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)…
Study Seeks to Understand Relationship Between Chronic Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease
Currently 5.4 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease – the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. – and more than 800,000 people in the U.K. battle some form…
Obamacare: Policy Changes – Healthcare Reform – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
By now you’ve likely heard the the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. What was interesting about the…
Not Poor Enough for Medicaid? Meet the ‘New’ Medicaid Doughnut-Hole
The U.S. House had yet another symbolic vote yesterday to repeal the health reform legislation. While previous efforts to undo the law have been unsuccessful and the Senate will no…
Protective Genetic Material Appears to Protect against Alzheimer Dementia
The journal Nature is reporting in its latest issue of a protective genetic mutation that retards the production of one of the most commonly cited elements responsible for Alzheimer dementia…
Who Will Spend the New Money for Family Planning?
Yesterday’s family planning summit seems to have mobilized new funding commitments totaling USD 414.5 million between now and 2015. Without going into whether this increased funding will displace spending on…
How To Increase Patients? Think Like A Patient (5 Quick Ideas)
Being a doctor and having to move to another state or another town can be frightening because you have to build your practice from scratch. Over the course of…
How To Find a Job in Home Health Care, Elder Care, or Aging Using Social Media
Believe it or not, the field of aging is where the jobs are. Believe it or not, the field of aging is where the jobs are.By 2020, 16% of adults…
