Targeted Therapies Improve Cancer Treatment – Sometimes Dramatically
The revolution in medicine brought about by greater understanding of genomics has led to a number of targeted therapies in cancer care. The basic concept is to first find the…
Prevention Axed To Pay for Doc-Fix
Would you sell your home’s storm doors to pay for this winter’s heating bills? That’s what Congress did Friday to pay for part of a 10-month “doc fix.” Would you…
Interview/Podcast:HIT Interoperability with Cameron Deemer, President at DrFirst Pt. 1
Cameron Deemer, Presdient at DrFirst For years DrFirst has been primarily known as a leader in the e-prescribing space and the only certified solution to e-prescribe controlled substances with…
Online Patient Communities Garner Interest at Social Media Week, Toronto
I was honoured to represent the healthcare sector at Social Media Week Toronto. For the SMWTO official lauch event, PulseCheck, organizers invited 10 representatives from 10 industries to present a 5-minute…
(Some) Docs Launch War on Overutilization
(Reuters)–A leading group of U.S. doctors is trying to tackle the costly problem of excessive medical testing, hoping to avoid more government intervention in how they practice. The American College…
Kick-starting Healthcare Innovation with TEDMED2012
Having just written about crowdsourcing for healthcare innovation, I was intrigued by a recent tweet for the TEDMED2012 Conference. Landing on the TED home page, I found myself selecting a…
Congress Has a Panel on Women’s Health and No Women Were Invited At the House Hearing – ”Default Topics” of Abortions and Birth Control Returned to the Floor
What were they discussing…birth control. Imagine a women’s panel with no women to add content. Nancy Pelosi was quick to jump on that one as well. The second panel had…
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.…
