Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs: What are the Key Differences?
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) criteria. Medicare…
Canadian Hospitals Twice as Risky as US Hospitals
Still, hospitals are risky everywhere. This is from a CBC interview with Professor Liam Donaldson, England’s former chief medical officer and author of a new World Health Organization report: Still,…
Integrating Social Media into Emergency-Preparedness Efforts
The NEJM includes an article that addresses the integration of social media in emergency preparedness efforts from the perspective of physicians. I appreciate the examples they share and agree with the authors.…
Hospital Capacity Management: Interview With GE Performance Solutions (transcript)
This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Jeff Terry of GE Performance Solutions. This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Jeff Terry of GE…
$25 Million Prize to Curb Pet Overpopulation
We like Dr. Michelson at the Medical Quack as I wrote back a few months ago with an update and background information that was featured in the LA…
Does Your Plastic Surgeon Take Plastic?
Increasingly, doctors, dentists and especially physicians who treat patients paying out-of-pocket are partnering with credit card firms that specialize in financing medical procedures. About 140,000 health care providers now accept…
FDA Clears Telcare’s mHealth Cellular Connected Glucose Meter
This is an interesting product and it connects to PHRs like HealthVault and there are all types of analytics included for both patient and doctor use. I re This is…
Discretion is the Better Part of Health Care
To people in what I call the health policy establishment, the riddle of modern health care is: Why are health costs rising at twice the rate of growth of income…
MRgFUS Could be a Viable Option for Facet Joint Back Pain
Researchers have treated 15 patients with MRgFUS for facet joint-related back pain in a clinical trial at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. While the patient lies in an MRI scanner,…
White House Names Former Microsoft Executive as Next US CIO
$80 billion a year is what is spent by the government on information technology and we struggle to get our money’s worth. Mr. VanRoekel plans to continue the project already…
