Spine Surgery Demand Up as Prices Decline
Demand for solutions to chronic back pain is on the rise. The number of people with chronic back pain is increasing, regardless of the economic challenges of healthcare. Consequently, the…
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Transgender sex changes proposed for New York Medicaid. Transgender sex changes proposed for New York Medicaid. Kinsley: Christie is too fat to be president. Megan McArdle, Jonathan Chait and Ezra…
Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2012
Cleveland Clinic Top 10 for 2012 Cleveland Clinic Top 10 for 2012 1. Catheter-Based Renal Denervation to Control Resistant Hypertension: When blood pressure is elevated-140/90 mm Hg or higher-a person…
New Health IT Events Calendar
We recently debuted our Health IT Event Calendar. This event calendar offers viewers a lot of functionality including scheduling events in an iCalendar, sharing options (Twitter, FB, LinkedIn, etc.), conference and event…
Rite Aid Takes on Telemedicine-Online Medicine’s Big Day
There’s a definite romance developing between pharmacy outlets and medical organizations when it comes to consumer-driven opportunities in health care delivery. We’ve continued to watch Medco’s foray into genetic testing,…
Rural Healthcare: Increasing Access to Physicians and Technology
In August, the Obama Administration announced a new jobs initiative for rural America that includes investments focused on increasing access to capital, job training and health care services. In August,…
The Passing of Steve Jobs – Pancreatic Cancer
It’s too young to die at age 56. It’s too young to die when you have four children and a wife. It’s too young to die when you have led…
Wall Street Protesters Need a Cause Like Healthcare
One of the mistaken characterizations being bandied about the media echo-chamber about the anti-Wall Street protests now sweeping the country is that it is somehow a left-wing version of the…
Can Computers Replace Doctors?
They are already reading Pap smears: They are already reading Pap smears: Pap-screening computer, the BD FocalPoint GS Imaging System, is a marvel of medical engineering. The machine’s image-searching software…
Inappropriate Care Costs U.S. $6.76 Billion Annually
A new study almost $7 billion of wasteful spending in American health care: A new study almost $7 billion of wasteful spending in American health care: $5.8 billion: Prescribing a…
