Consumer Price Sensitivity: From Cuts to Value Seeking
Consumer Reports notes that patients are avoiding filling prescriptions and seeing the doctor due to financial pressures. From Bloomberg (More Americans Skipping Medical Care to Save): Consumer Reports notes that…
Why You Don’t Have Real Health Insurance
David Palmer is the actor I remember best for playing the president of the United States in one of the Jack Bauer “24″ series. You probably know him better as…
Rethinking the Outsourced Cloud, Part III: Expected Benefits of Cloud Applications
Microsoft’s SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011 (Global Report) collected survey results from more than 3,000 small, mid-sized and large companies from 16 different countries. Expected benefits of using cloud applications…
British National Health Service – HealthCare Within a Budget
This is the latest news about the British National Health Service: Family doctors have been ordered to ration the number of patients they send for life-saving cancer scans to save…
MelaFind Gets FDA Approval For Detecting Melanoma
This has been a long haul for Melafind as back in November of 2010 the FDA panel approved the device, and here we are in September of 2011 with now…
Information Therapy for Non-Communicable Diseases
The Times of India reported that India is planning to roll out the world’s largest non-communicable diseases drive. As many as 26 "mini interventions" will make up the world's largest…
Senseless Rules
Doctors at East Louisville Pediatrics PSC in Kentucky say they’re writing as many as 50 prescriptions a day for drugs such as Bayer AG’s aspirin and Pfizer Inc.’s Advil that…
Meaningful Use Criteria and the ACO
Sarianne Gruber MPH, MS SG Healthcare Analytics LLC Accountable Care Organizations or more commonly called ACOs plan to be the new Medicare business models for practicing medicine. What exactly is…
Video: Healthcare on Cloud
A 2011 Gartner survey of chief information officers (CIOs) reveals that almost half of all CIOs expect to operate their applications and infrastructures via cloud technologies within the next five…
Rising Premiums Do Not Square with Costs
The press releases flew from various House committees yesterday afternoon (which double as Republican Party campaign offices). The charge: rising health care premiums are due to “Obamacare.” The latest Kaiser…
