Institute of Medicine Calls for Overhaul of Device Regulation
The Institute of Medicine committee that’s been reviewing medical device regulation for the past two years called recently for a sweeping overhaul of Food and Drug Administration rules that allow some implanted…
New Quality Site
A consolidated site to compare a host of quality reports on your hospital is now A consolidated site to compare a host of quality reports on your hospital is now…
Baystate Staff Cuts Highlight Hospital Demographic Challenges
Another hospital system has announced job cuts. This time, it was Baystate Health System, which announced a reduction of 354 jobs, or 3.5% of its payroll. The Boston Globe article…
Cloud-Based Video Conferencing for Telemedicine – Podcast
Nefsis provides cloud-based, multi-point HD video conference solutions for a variety of industries, including health care. In this podcast interview, Nefsis VP Tom Toperczer describes telemedicine applications including hospital/remote clinic…
The $9.2 Million Hospital Bill
When I lived in Hong Kong years ago I used to read about crazy stories happening in places like the Phillipines, where a woman supposedly gave birth to a fish.…
Can Light Affect Your Health?
With light, the body sets its internal clock to a 24-hour cycle regulating an estimated 10 percent of our genes. The workhouse of this system is the light-sensitive hormone melatonin,…
Who Will Drive Social Media Use in Health Care? Part 3
This is the last of a three part series examining how various groups will drive social media use in health care. Part one considered the impact of physicians and
Study Shows Solid Longterm Outcomes with MRgFUS for Uterine Fibroids
A study recently published in the journal Academic Radiology shows positive outcomes up to three years following treatment of uterine fibroids with MR-guided focused ultrasound. In the study, 40 women…
What You Eat Matters More Than the Calories
Conclusion: “There are good foods and bad foods, and the advice should be to eat the good foods more and the bad foods less,” he said. “The notion that it’s…
Is Breath Analysis the Future of Medical Testing?
Scientists are building sophisticated electronic and chemical sniffers that examine the puffs of exhaled air for telltale signs of cancer, tuberculosis, asthma and other maladies, as well as for radiation…
