Disease Registries Help Doctors Share Information
Disease registries enable doctors and hospitals to learn about and share the latest information on best clinical practices for disease and conditions. According to a post on the Health Affairs…
Global Trend in Bariatric Surgery
The global obesity problem has been targeted by multiple alternative therapies including surgery (with and without devices), a variety of over the counter and ethical drugs (and combinations of them),…
What to do About HealthCare Spending: Eat-Your-Spinach Budget Reforms
Democrats seem to have more “street smarts” than Republicans when it comes to grass roots politics. In 1983, both parties agreed to cut Social Security benefits by raising the retirement…
Florida’s Problem: Cutting Medicaid May Cost the State More
Florida is concerned that it spends too much on Medicaid. Unfortunately for policymakers, proposed cuts to Medicaid are likely to be self-defeating according to an Orlando Sentinel article. They may…
Healthcare Providers Stifle Online Free Speech
As I've mentioned before in posts, my background includes service as a hospital risk manager. So, I'm an advocate of techniques to minimize risk. However, I've learned of one that…
Healthcare Reform’s Impact: Staff and Service Cuts Expected
The newest HealthLeaders Media Intelligence Report, Reform’s Impact: Staff and Service Cuts Expected, reveals that only 40% of healthcare senior executives who completed the survey believe the Patient…
Consumers More Choosy About Cars and Appliances than Health Care
This is from the Altarum Institute Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care: Fewer than one in three consumers reports doing detailed research before selecting a doctor, while almost 60%…
Facebook Adds Suicide Button To Report Potential Harmful Behavior
Ok, you tell me will this be abused? We all know that on the web text is misinterpreted all the time and this is why “smiley” were created to help…
Is Disruption of Mainstream Healthcare the Answer to Our Crisis?
I’ve been a fan of Clayton Christensen’s work. The idea of disruptive innovations really resonates with me and provides a powerful framework for understanding how innovations are adopted (or not)…
Interactive: A Status Report on Health Information Technology in the States
This map above provides a status report on where states stand in distributing Medicaid incentive payments for adoption of health information technology based on the latest data that was…
