Tobacco Control Policies; Scaling Up Incentives
As the world readies for the upcoming UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases, the importance of good tobacco control efforts has been (yet again) affirmed. Along with this renewed interest…
Cloud Computing for Healthcare; Compliance, Disaster Recovery & Business Sustainability
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)’s financial stimulus plan for the meaningful use of EMR systems and IT services has motivated the healthcare industry to quickly…
FDA Has A New Training Program for Medical Device Reviewers
This is good thing and it’s the same process that should and does take place when creating medical records, seeing and understanding both sides of the story. We also know…
Busan is in the air: GAVI gets in front
One of the good things about a big international meeting is that agencies become motivated to deliver on commitments made at earlier big international meetings. As aid-world gears up for…
Shifting Caseload and Markets in Tissue Ablation
Technologies to therapeutically ablate tissue (via destruction and/or removal of abnormal tissue or creation of a therapeutic lesion as in blocking errant electrical pathways in arrhythmia) represent a remarkably diverse…
Using Open Source Software in Safety-Critical Medical Devices
Earlier this year the nice folks at O’Reilly Associates were kind enough to invite me to speak about how to use open source in safety-critical medical devices. The open source…
Spine Surgery Map
Spine surgery is a broad area of clinical practice encompassing treatments for many different conditions encompassing degenerative disc and other spinal diseases, congenital and adult spinal deformities, autoimmune diseases of…
13th Annual Global Investment HealthCare Conference
OneMedRadio interviewed David Strupp, Managing Director of Healthcare Investment Banking at Rodman & Renshaw. Rodman & Renshaw holds its 13th annual Global Investment Healthcare conference this September at the Waldorf=Astoria…
Overtreatment Alert! Antibiotics Fuel Medical Overutilization
A good friend of mine and Whistleblower reader contracted the sniffles and received a prescription for antibiotics at a local urgent care center. A good friend of mine and Whistleblower reader contracted…
Denmark: High Healthcare IT Competence and a Formidable Talent Pool
Many people outside our country believe that we’re “behind the times” when it comes to healthcare IT. So, over the past few years I’ve traveled to several countries, usually…
