How Can IT Facilitate Information Therapy?
The end customer in the business of Medicine needs information. The end customer in the business of Medicine needs information. Everyday technology adds new ways in which we store and…
IPAB, PSA Testing – The Lies Continue
Aside from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sparring over Romneycare and the million children without health insurance in the Lone Star State, there were only…
Indiana Seeks Exemption from Key ACA Provision
From the Did You Know category today: the state of Indiana is challenging a key provision of the ACA having to do with the medical loss ratio for insurers. That’s…
Who’s Gonna Put a Ding in the HealthCare Universe?
I’ll try not to turn this into yet another Steve Jobs centered blog post, but I am interested in his self-professed ambition to ‘put a ding in the universe’, in…
Observations on the PSA Testing Debate
Much has and will be written on the new US Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) recommendations against routine use of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test in healthy men…
Myth Busters #11: Mandated Benefits
As I said in my last “Myth Busters” post, the health policy community came to view risk pools as being a big pool of money to be allocated according to…
The Long and the Short of It: You Shrink as You Get Older
It’s not uncommon to shrink by a quarter to a third of an inch every decade after age 40. Think of a house settling on its foundation. Disks—the gel-like pads…
This Week In Diagnostics
Insight Genetics receives NCI grant Insight Genetics receives NCI grant Insight Genetics reported that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The…
Senator Tom Coburn Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer
He won’t be using “chickens” to pay for his care you can bet as he was caught somewhat out of context not too long ago, but again this brings to…
New Insurance Rate Reporting Tool Goes Live Online
The implementation of health reform is a lengthy process, but I think it's kind of fun, because every so often a new element is introduced. We started by letting children…
