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.…
Hip Fractures in Women Deadly
Prevent falls. Prevent hip fractures. @Don Farral, Getty ImagesHip fractures in women ages 65 to 79 are linked to in an increase in short-term mortality according to an ongoing Kaiser…
Conference Tweeting: #RSNA11
Everything Rad invited me to submit a guest post to help kick off the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting. Everything Rad invited me to submit a guest…
The Truth About Healthcare Around the World
According to Reuters, “The United States spends more on healthcare than any country in the world but has higher rates of infant mortality and diabetes than many other developed countries.”…
