Device Alerts Patients They Are Close to a Heart Attack
The device is already in use in Europe and in Brazil. It looks like a pace maker implant and monitors your system. The design is to obviously warn of attacks…
HHS: Insurance Required to Offer Birth Control, Contraceptive Planning
The requirement that new insurance provisions and services under reform and HHS rules provide the gamut of preventive womens’ healthcare services will also cover the infamous morning-after pill. Other required…
Is a Government Takeover of Health Care Underway?
The normally sage CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Drew Altman isn’t as persuasive in his latest Pulling it Together column (Are We Headed for a Government Takeover of Health…
Microsoft Data Center Video Tour–Where HealthVault and Other Cloud Services Are Stored And Deployed
If you are using HealthVault as your PHR, you might want to take a look and see where your data is stored and available for access. Not too long ago…
Health Care Buzz Today
Marketers Hope to Boost Salad Consumption. Americans are in a salad rut, eating a salad at mealtime only about 36 times a year, or 20% less frequently than in 1985.…
Merck To Cut 13,000 More Jobs in The Next 4 Years
Some of this is the results of the Schering-Plough merger and the rest is a result of competition from generic drug competition. As we all know the days of the…
Will Wireless Capusle Endoscopy Replace Colonoscopy?
Most of born several decades ago, recall the futuristic book Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov, where a miniaturized crew traveled through a human body to cure a scientist who has…
Family Practice Rocks and other Cheers !
As I walk around my study, between thoughts about my blogs and social media lurking I am struck by the enthusiasm and total immersion of family medicine and it's cheering…
Legal Concerns: What Steps can Pharma Take to Engage in Social Media?
. This is the second part of a three part post addressing the legal concerns of social networking in the health care arena. Legal expert, David Harlow, Esq., Health Care…
HHS Releases Announcements for Healthcare Cooperative Funding
As we move closer to 2014 — the real enaction of reform — HHS is offering almost $4B under reform to create consumer-focused healthcare co-ops. Healthcare cooperatives are meant to…