Hospital Infection Rates Decreasing
There is good news on the subject of hospital acquired infections --new CDC data shows a significant decline in rates. For 2010, the CDC is reporting: There is good news…
Reasonable Goals for Health Insurance Coverage and Defining Medical Necessity
Health care should be a right but it needs to be paired with some responsibility – some share of the cost, especially for routine care, and some attention to maintaining…
Obama’s Opportunity for the “Super Committee”
Only three weeks remain before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, popularly known as the “Super Committee,” must submit a bill to Congress that will cut the deficit by…
Lucky Super Market Adds on a Blue Shield Health Insurance Store
We have had retail clinics and this is a tiny bit of a clinic in the fact that you can get your blood pressure taken and a few common screenings. …
DC Conference: FDA At A Crossroads
This one looks interesting. The Union of Concerned Scientists is holding a conference next week (Nov. 15) at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. that will explore many of the…
This Week In Diagnostics
Genomics X Prize will require teams to accurately sequence the genomes of centenarians. Genomics X Prize will require teams to accurately sequence the genomes of centenarians. The X PRIZE Foundation…
Increasing Medicare Eligibility Age and the Law of Unintended Consequences
On my way to the annual two-day blowout health law seminar put on by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) on Monday -- I was second in the lineup, speaking about…
Video:Insights from the Industry: The Biggest Challenges HIM Departments are Facing
While at AHIMA 2011, Connie Tohara, director of health information at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, sat down with Nuance Healthcare to discuss some of the biggest challenges…
Fall-Prone Seniors Fail to Adjust Walking Speed
Seniors prone to falling might do so because they fail to adjust their walking speed to their vision impairments.Irish investigators from Trinity College in Dublin divided 17 participants into three…
e-Patients, Quantified Self and Self-Efficacy; Self-Monitoring Through Technology
EXCLUSIVE POST - At the Medicine 2.0 Summit at Stanford in September, there was an interesting juxtaposition of these three concepts. The discussion of self-efficacy came from a presentation from…
