What Difference Do Advance Directives Make?
The results were surprising: The advance directives only saved money in areas where Medicare’s end-of-life costs are high. Think Florida and New York. In areas where Medicare’s costs are already…
Hospital Readmission Stats Impact Reimbursement
With the New Year fast approaching, and the start of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) fiscal year shortly behind us (it began October 1, 2011), it seems…
HealthCare Digital Awareness increases in 2011
We've almost reached the end of 2011, and as many blogs will be doing, it's time to take stock of what has happened this year. Digital awareness has certainly improved…
Earthquake Publications for Businesses and HealthCare Providers
Thousands of earthquakes occur in the United States each year; most are too small to significantly affect businesses and communities. However, large and very damaging earthquakes have occurred in the…
Who Owns Frozen Embryos?
In 2004, a Chester County, Pa., woman and her husband had some embryos frozen shortly before the woman underwent chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer and nearly three years before the…
Is Salt a Public Health Danger?
Last year, the government’s Institute of Medicine urged the Food and Drug Administration to “gradually step down the maximum amount of salt that can be added to foods, beverages…
HealthCare Business: 10 Tech Trends that are Going Mainstream and What to Do About It
It’s the end of the year, so you know what that means. All the armchair prognosticators come out of the woodwork to make their futuristic claims. But let’s get real…
Going the Distance: Connectivity in HealthCare
Real WIMAX, (not 4G that delivers speed but not distance) may deliver on broadband health IT in remote and rural areas of the United States. Real WIMAX, (not 4G that…
Book Review: Using Information Therapy to Put Patients First
My teacher, Dr Bhandarkar, kindly reviewed my book, and had some very nice things to say about it !----------------- My teacher, Dr Bhandarkar, kindly reviewed my book, and had some…
Video: Eliminating Barriers To Care Using Technology
The following video demonstrates how telehealth, including videoconferencing, can cost-effectively improve access to care for a high-medical-need population that is socially isolated, geographically dispersed, and experiences language and cultural barriers…
