County Run Stroger Hospital Launches Advertising Campaign to Lure Patients From Other Hospitals
This is the first I have heard of a county hospital anywhere in the US launching an advertising campaign. When you watch the video they are focused on delivering babies…
Alternatives to Scrapping 510(k)
The Institute of Medicine report on medical device regulation released two weeks ago called for scrapping the 510(k) process that allows for market entry of new devices if they’re shown to be…
Administrative Costs
I take a back seat to no one in complaining about the inordinate number of bureaucrats in health care. Where I part company with many of my colleagues is that…
Bariatric Surgeries Per Country
A couple of different pictures emerge when considering the number of bariatric surgeries per country and per capita per country. A couple of different pictures emerge when considering the number…
Microsoft Tags (Barcodes) Used with LifeSaver Mobile Application-Paramedics Scan a Printed Card to Access Your Records
Ok I like bar codes as everyone who visits here knows and this is yet one more way the Tags from Microsoft can be used. I have written about Razcode…
Hospital Reporting of Surgical-Site Infection Rates
California hospitals are required to report surgical-site infection rates for 26 procedures to the CDC, and ultimately the public. Beginning January 2012 the following information will be available on the…
California Medical Board Under Fire For Failure to Discipline Doctors
This is important as the information produced from medical boards is used by online MD ratings sites, which have their own issues with flawed information but this makes it worse. …
Would a Birth Control Counseling App Help Teens?
In my day-to-day practice of counseling teens on birth control use, I often feel defeated. The information we impart to them is complex and confusing. It never surprises me to…
CBO: Private Insurers Better at Expenditure Growth Control than Medicare, Medicaid
Advocates for government run health care assert that it does a better job of cost control than private insurers. Here are some data from a 2007 Congressional Budget office report…
Health Care Buzz Today
NIH to Create Genetic Test Database. Hoping to improve healthcare research and centralize data, the National Institutes of Health plans to create an online database of more than 2,000 available…
