M&A Activity and Hospital Priorities Seek a Groove as ICD-10 Looms
While the deadline for ICD-10 implementation is not until October 2013, the new clinical documentation code set expands over 8x from 24,000 to > 200,000 and with enterprise-wide effects will…
IBM File System Scans 10 Billion Files in 43 minutes
This almost makes me wish a 10 billion files to scan:) This looks like a good place to store some MRI images. As we all talk about the exploding amount…
CLASS Act Could Be on Chopping Block
The Community Living Assistance and Supportive Services (CLASS) Act is under threat of repeal and Leading Age is leading a charge to save it. Since this Act could become a…
Will Washington Prevent a Cure for Cancer?
The United States can rightly claim the title of medicine chest to the world. Almost two-thirds of research on new medicines approved in the last 10 years was performed in…
Arun Menawat Discusses Novadaq Technologies, a Surgical Imaging Company
Novadaq Technologies (TSX:NDQ) President & CEO Arun Menawat was interviewed by OneMedRadio. Novadaq was founded in 1992, and now has 76 Employees and $153 Million Market Cap. The 12 month…
New Surgical Techniques Drive Market Opportunity
In cardiovascular and spine surgery, multi-billion dollar markets were created from entirely new procedures between 1980 and 2000, with subsequent segmentation in later years, particularly as new minimally invasive procedures…
How to Teach Microsoft Applications that “HER” is not the Proper Replacement for “EHR”
After the 4 thousandth time I’ve cursed Microsoft Outlook, Word, or Excel for “auto correcting” the acronym “EHR" to “HER” I finally took 30 seconds to fix this once and…
A Brilliant Reason to Dive Deep into the Social Media Health Space
Recently, I had the pleasure of being surrounded by brilliant health care thought leaders. First, I delivered a social media presentation at the Eyeforpharma conference. Secondly, I sat…
Why Would Anyone Want to become a Physician?
Good question, given the current atmosphere of doom and gloom amongst my colleagues and peers. Well first of all like most folks when one has worked at the same…
Express Scripts-Medco Merger — Antitrust?
If this merger doesn’t draw fire from the antitrust division of the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, then those agencies aren’t paying attention. Express Scripts and Medco…
