Price Transparency Is Nice, But All-Payer Is Better
For all the talk about consumer driven medicine (it’s the basis for Republican plans to turn Medicare into a voucher program), why doesn’t anyone talk about pricing transparency in health…
What is Self-Management?
We need new models for health care because more people are living longer lives, which is good! ☺ But this means more people with long-term health problems requiring more of…
Meaningful Use and Documentation of Vital Signs
Jim Tate, Meaningful Use Expert Jim Tate, Meaningful Use Expert Sometimes things are not what they seem. What can appear simple can become complex upon closer examination. Lately I’ve been…
Bigger Carrots and Painful Sticks to Improve Medication Adherence
As you’ve probably read by now in the New England Journal of Medicine (Full Coverage for Preventive Medications after Myocardial Infarction), so-called value based insurance design, which waives co-pays for…
Doctors as a Healthcare Tool
Most people ( including doctors themselves) have an excessively inflated opinion as to how important they are in improving the health of their patients . I think this self-importance is…
SCOTUS Sets Hearing Dates for ACA Constitutionality; Obama and Romney Weigh Options
Posted in CorporatePolitics & The LawWith the SCOTUS set to take up the ACA and its constitutionality this term, more fuel to the fire has just been added to an…
AMA Votes to “Vigorously” Stop ICD-10
Yesterday, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association voted "to work vigorously to stop implementation of ICD-10," according to the news release on AMA's website. AMA's presdient, Peter…
PLC Medical Systems Uses Revenue in the EU to Fund Phase III Development in the US
Mark Tauscher, President and CEO of PLC Medical Systems Inc., discusses the company’s product RenalGuard, an important tool for ridding the body of toxins. Mark Tauscher, President and CEO of…
Obama to Indiana: Forget Patient Power
The Obama Administration has rejected the state’s request to extend its federal waiver, which means that over 45,000 Indianans who get their insurance through the program are out of luck:…
Heart Stem Cell Clinical Trial Patient #1 –Outstanding Results
If you click on the image you can see the follow up video 2 years after the procedure. At the link below you can see the original video when he…
