Thank U.S. Health Care for the Life of Steve Jobs
On the very day that Steve Jobs died a new report suggests that the U.S. health care system is spending too much money on people near the end of their…
Care Coordination Is Critical For Those With Chronic Conditions
This is the fourth post in a series on care coordination; this time focusing on other examples of team-based care. Patients with diabetes not only have to deal with the…
Can We Take the Excitement out of the FDA? Agency Could be Turning a Corner
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) likes to trot out the statistic that claims it regulates about $100 billion in biomedical R&D each year: investments made by industry (and…
Stem Cells Cure Rats With Diabetes
The process of of doing this though does not sound very inviting for sure. So far the testing has been carried out on rats only but they say it should…
Healthcare.Gov Lets Consumers Monitor Health Insurance Rates
As you may or may not know, as of September 1st carriers wanting more than a 10% raise are now required to substantiate why. This means they just pull out…
Study: Many Medicare Beneficiaries Obtain Surgeries in Last Year of Life
A new study out of Harvard finds that approximately a third of all Medicare beneficiaries in the last year of life chose to have a major surgical procedure. The operative…
Health and Wellness Programs: Medicine or Marketing?
There’s a new term that has entered the medical lexicon. The word is wellness. Hospitals and medical offices are incorporating this term into their mission statements, corporate names, business cards,…
Using Information Therapy to Put Patients First
All of us will be patients some day. What can we do to ensure that we get the best medical care when we fall ill?Information Therapy – the right information…
Hospitals No Longer Non-Profit?
Hospitals in the United States are a mix of for-profit and non-profit entities. The latter group gets a big benefit in the form of being exempt from taxation. To qualify,…
Health Barometer – Youth Lead the Way
In an excellent presentation on the Health Barometer, international survey results, exploreing “how social interaction and technology can spread good health. One of the findings is that the Activitists in…
