HHS Empowers Patients to ‘Share the Health’ as Part of Reform Messaging Effort
Getting the word out about all the preventive services available to Medicare beneficiaries is about as easy as wiping out fraud within CMS completely. But that’s not stopping HHS from…
Mobile Phone-Brain Cancer Link Bewilders Epidemiologists
Some of the greatest discoveries in the history of modern medicine came from scientists who noted spatial and temporal relationships between events that had not been previously recognized, and deduced…
Health Care Buzz Today
Best Buy Leads $5.5M Investment with Valencell. The Series B investment in the mobile health company was joined by TDF and True Ventures. Valencell’s Healthset sensor tracks heart rate, calories…
Tweetup at the AHLA Annual Meeting in Boston
Come join Bob Coffield (@bobcoffield) and me, together with other speakers, attendees and camp followers from the American Health Lawyers Association, for a tweetup next Tuesday, June 28, 2011, at…
GAO: FDA Can’t Monitor Device Recalls
The Government Accountability Office has weighed in on the failure of the Food and Drug Administration to properly monitor medical device recalls. Its review of the 3,510 recalls between 2005…
Global Warming: Good for Your Health?
Six centuries after the Black Death ravaged Europe, the gruesomeness of the disease and its hopeless, unavoidable death sentence still assault the human psyche. Rarely a week would pass from…
An App That Predicts Behavior
Here we go again with yet one more device that was spun out of MIT and sure it has some clinical use for some situations and the use in a…
Doximity Mobile and Web Secure Network for Doctors To Communicate
This is an interesting service and could be very useful and you can watch the video below to see how it functions for doctors to have their own network to…
Is There Too Much Screening for Heart Disease?
The number of these tests has increased significantly over the last 20 to 30 years, and these days screening may involve any of a dozen procedures — some as simple…
Why Not the Best? Or, at Least, Why Not the Same?
The U.S. Medicaid program is likely paying far more than necessary for medications and not offering patients the most effective ones available, by ignoring international evidence-based lists of safe and…
