Physicians Surveyed Gloomy About Healthcare Reform
Recently, The Doctors Company (TDC), the country’s largest insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, decided to survey doctors to determine what they are thinking and feeling about…
Online Physician Rating Sites Aren’t Getting Enough Patient Ratings
Columnist Ron Lieber writes that consumers are not posting online reviews of their health care experiences as often as they are posting online reviews of restaurants and…
Santorum Stones Romney on Health Care –But Lives in a Glass House Himself
No surprise, Rick Santorum is attacking Mitt Romney’s record on health care. He’s going after Romney for instituting the prototype for “Obamacare” in Massachusetts. Santorum is right about that, and…
HHS Issues Final Rule on State Health Insurance Exchanges
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today published the final rule that will assist states in building more affordable health insurance exchanges. Beginning in 2014, one stop marketplaces…
What Colonoscopies Cost (and Why)
Recent data from a large New York health insurer show that 85 percent of colonoscopies (about 26,000 procedures) for metro New York consumers were performed in physicians’ offices. The cost…
Analyze Your Workflow Before Selecting a HIPAA Hosting Provider
Understanding your operation’s workflow is key to implementing and selecting IT vendors that support your processes and can also potentially offer a way to streamline workflow. ModernHealthcare.com recently published an…
Check Out NCOA’s Offerings for Caregivers/Seniors/Boomers
Do you help older adults find benefits? If so, be sure to check out the new website for NCOA’s National Center for Benefits Outreach & Enrollment. Now part of NCOA.org,…
Mobile Health Around the Globe
EXCLUSIVE POST - This month, HealthWorks Collective introduces our ongoing series: Mobile Health Around the Globe. We invite all of our contributors to participate! Come one, come all and join…
Rising Health Costs Affect Us All
Several new reports were released this week that shed troublesome news on the financial state of our health care system as it pertains to insurers, providers and patients alike. Representing…
Can Technology Transform HealthCare?
Eric Topol MD calls for the “Creative Destruction of Medicine” Eric Topol MD calls for the “Creative Destruction of Medicine” My readers will verify that I am always…
