Affordable Care Act Hits Two-Year Mark
Last week marked the two-year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). With heightened focus on the ACA continuing this week, especially on the individual mandate, it’s…
Walking is Great!: Infographic
Walking is a great way to keep fit, engage in nature, spend time with your dog (if you have one!) and get those endorphins going! Walking is a great way…
How Crowdfunding Affects the Healthcare Market, and Your Wallet
Crowdfunding may have an interesting effect on the healthcare space. Unlike technology, entertainment, retail and other sectors, novel medical technologies and therapeutics take years of pre-development, and require institutional manpower…
Post SCOTUS Arguments, Waiting Game Begins
After two days of deliberations before the Supreme Court, the national discourse on the wrangling of the ACA’s most salient political ramifications shifts into heavy duty poltical mode. The obvious…
Doximity-Medical App
The impact of social media on health care has been nothing short of game-changing. Researchers have used sites such as Twitter to track the spread of disease so that medical…
FDA’s Farm Animal Antibiotics Ban Ignored Since 1977, Courts Say
The Food and Drug Administration must act – and quickly – to enforce a largely ignored 35-year-old mandate prohibiting non-medical use of antibiotics in farm animals, a federal court judge…
When Will Dental and Medical Insurance be Integrated?
It has never made sense to me to that dental insurance is not included in comprehensive medical insurance. Maybe it’s because dental care was originally seen as mainly cosmetic or…
Is Fee-For-Service the Problem?
Almost everyone involved in health care will tell you that the greatest problem in our system is that we pay on a fee-for-service basis. Almost everyone is wrong.The logic is…
Infographic:Making Sense of Meaningful Use
Let’s face it, understanding Meaningful Use can be a challenge. There are a number of key requirements that must be meet to achieve each stage of Meaningful Use not including…
Healthization of Development
The U.S. nominee to the World Bank presidency is attracting criticism from those worried about the “healthization” of the development field. In Bloomberg, my colleague Arvind Subramanian is quoted: “Someone…
