Hospitals Competing for Patients
Not on price. Or on quality. Just amenities. (See our previous explanation here, here and here.) Not on price. Or on quality. Just amenities. (See our previous explanation here, here…
Medicare Quiz from Kaiser: Almost Everyone Can Learn Something
Kaiser Family Foundation has posted one of the most informative and well-packaged pieces I’ve ever seen on Medicare. I’d encourage everyone to have a go at the Medicare Quiz. It…
Treating and Even Preventing Acne the Natural Way
If you can start a healthy and natural way of life even before you hit the teen years, this will go a long way to preventing acne outbreaks both as…
Roche’s Proposed Takeover of Illumina—Game On for Universal DNA Sequencing?
There appears to be a full-scale race underway to bring affordable next-gen DNA sequencing into diagnostics and clinical medicine, as demonstrated over the past week or so by Roche’s hostile $5.7…
The Divide in the ACO Debate – Beltway Rhetoric versus Marketplace Cynicism
Amid the broader – and oftentimes highly opinionated and heated – ACO conversation occurring across Washington and the private sector, The Wall Street Journal published an interesting piece last week…
Health Information Technology: Whistling by the Graveyard
The United Kingdom invested almost $20 billion in an ambitious Health Information Technology (HIT) initiative that has now been scrapped. But in the United States, the people working on our…
Time for FDA to Hire Some Pharma Marketers?
Turns out the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t achieve the impact it’s looking for in communications with physicians. That finding is drawn from a new paper that evaluates the impact…
Repeal and Replace or Repeal and Do Nothing?
Remember how opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) vowed to “repeal and replace” the measure? It was and is a great slogan (I’m a sucker for…
Video:How Gaming and Social Networking are Revolutionizing Healthcare?
With 510 million people playing online games in 2010 and over 10 billion social networking accounts worldwide, it was only a matter of time before we saw them converge. What…
New Book on Health Informatics Released
Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Tec Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals was just published last month by Bob Hoyt of University of…
