Health Care Buzz Today
Poor are Healthier with Medicaid. Enrolling patients in Medicaid increases their use of healthcare services, reduces financial strain on these impoverished patients and improves their sense of well-being, according to…
Scientists Using the Web to Raise Research Funds
We all know fund raising in science, especially healthcare science is not easy today and I included the portions below that pertain to such. Groups are also looking for money…
Life Sciences Venture Investing Outperformed Tech Venture Investing Over the Past Decade
I read with great interest a study posted on TheBij.com which talks about venture investment returns in the healthcare field: Life Sciences: The Rodney Dangerfield of Venture Capital. I’ve been in…
347 Pages of Regulations; 811 References to Mandates
This is hot off the press from Chris Jacobs: This is hot off the press from Chris Jacobs: HHS just released part of its Exchange regulations—a 244-page regulation regarding the…
Bladder Cancer Care in America Gets a Failing Grade
Analytical data from Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database was part of the criteria here along with certain urine and other relative tests were the determination was made. …
Getting There
Imagine you are in a room full of diverse people, with differing political views and differing levels of understanding of economics and social science. You are discussing health care. Yet…
Bad News for Evidence-Based Medicine
Bruce Booth, a venture capitalist explains the perils of investing in companies whose products are based on scientific discoveries published in academic journals. Bruce Booth, a venture capitalist explains the…
States Ranked by Percent Obese Highlights Pervasive Negative Trend
A recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health detailed recent trends in the prevalence of obesity in the United States. Across the nation, the…
Why Medical Device Data is the Best Way to Fill Meaningful Use EHRs and Conduct Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
I will be presenting at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCon) in Portland at the end of the month. As an avid reader of dozens of O’Reilly’s technical books…
Are For Profit Hospice Placing Profits Over People?
Some ethicists say that the goal of profitability of for profit hospice businesses interferes with the ability to provide quality end-of-life care.Robert Stone, M.D., reporting in the Journal of Law,…
