The Fiction Behind The Cost of New Drugs
The following column appeared yesterday in The Fiscal Times: The following column appeared yesterday in The Fiscal Times: The drug industry usually defends the high price on drugs – the…
Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit: Cashews on the Hindenburg
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has a thousand pages of moving parts, and the relatively few that have rolled out are shedding sprockets across the landscape. This…
Lab Tests in Health Risk Assessments Help Spot Diabetes, High Cholesterol and Kidney Disease (transcript)
This is the transcript of my podcast interview with Dr. Harvey Kaufman of Quest Diagnostics. This is the transcript of my podcast interview with Dr. Harvey Kaufman of Quest Diagnostics.…
MRI Can Detect Cognitive Decline in Parkinson’s Patients
An MRI scan that detects atrophy patterns in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients also can detect cognitive decline in Parkinson’s patients. Parkinson's disease results from the degeneration of dopamine-producing brain…
HealthCare Costs: Time to Call ACOs Parsimonious Care Organizations?
Peter J. Neumann, ScD runs the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (I’m an advisory board member there) so he’s well placed to initiate a forthright…
CMS Announces Re-Examination of Timeline for ICD-10 – Is the Pressure Off?
Doug Hires, Partner at Santa Rosa Consulting Doug Hires, Partner at Santa Rosa Consulting The following is a guest post from Doug Hires, Partner, Consulting & Advisory Services at Santa…
Shift Bidding and Staffing the Unit
I had been seeing @MatthewBrowning on my TweetDeck and then realized we were on the HIMSS12 mHealth Meet the Bloggers panel together. After our prep call, Matthew tweeted that he wanted…
Johns Hopkins Medical and IT Researchers Teaming With Harris Corporation to Create Mega Medical Imaging Cloud System
The race for the cloud is on with medical records as if you read here the last couple of days we had stories on United, Blue Cross and Aetna with…
Report:PPACA Would Reduce Number of Uninsured from 50 million to 26 million
In a recent report published last month by the Urban Institute and Robert Johnson Foundation states that if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is enacted, it would…
