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…
Inovio Wins Award for Cervical Cancer Vaccine Research
Inovio Pharmaceuticals (AMEX:INO) announced Wednesday that it has won the Edward Jenner Poster Award First Prize for its research to develop a therapeutic, synthetic vaccine for cancer, at the recent…
Wound Closure Market Shifts From Traditional to Advance Products
As the practice and the market for surgical sealants, glues, wound closure and anti-adhesion evolves, a marked shift is taking place that is moving caseload and market from traditional wound…
SCOTUS Hears California Medicaid Case
The SCOTUS has begun a new term, and the most august judicial body is hearing a case involving potential for healthcare consumers (patients), hospitals, or even doctors to sue a state government for…
