Wash Your Hands? The Video is Watching
Those L.E.D. displays are very demanding — health care workers must clean their hands within 10 seconds of entering and exiting a patient’s room, or it doesn’t count. Three years…
Changing Fortunes in the Obesity Treatment Industry
With Qnexa, Contrave and Lorcaserin each recently rejuvenated after previous FDA's near-death sentences, the market outlook for obesity drugs is now being viewed almost as optimistically as it was in…
Japan (Of All Places) Has a Fat Tax
This is by way of Robin Hanson, who provides further commentary: The law mandates that local governments and employers add a waist measurement test to the annual mandatory check up…
4 Tools for Hospitals to Measure Local Social Media Engagement
How do hospitals measure the success of their social media programs? Moreover, how can hospitals effectively measure the impact that their social media program has on their local community.For hospitals,…
Defending Tiered Health Plans
Tiered health plans cutting costs, restricting options in today’s Boston Globe raises reasonable questions about new benefit designs from Massachusetts insurers that require members to pay more when they seek…
Radiologists Feel Lack of Clarity in Meaningful Use Guidelines
KLAS and RNSA have partnered up to determine radiologists major concerns regarding MU (meaningful use) and what types of guidelines they felt would be beneficial to the practice of radiology.…
Employer Health Insurance Premiums: A Stunning Graphic from Aaron Carroll
He adds this observation: He adds this observation: By 2010, more than 60% of people lived in areas where insurance premiums cost at least 20% of their income. And that’s…
Ablation Technologies in Liver Cancer
Radio frequency ablation (RFA), with limitations, has shown to be effective and has increasingly become the standard of care for non-resectable liver disease. Radiofrequency ablation devices work by sending alternating…
There is No Such Thing as an “Unbundled” Medical Bill
Have you noticed that quite a few of my Health Alerts are devoted to pointing out the obvious? If so, you probably have an ounce or two of common sense.…
