Medicare Benefits Good Step Towards Prevention
In the midst of a continuing dialogue about the critical role prevention and wellness measures should play in any health reform effort, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…
Upcoming Speaking Engagements – health care social media, ACOs and more
I spoke recently at a MassMEDIC conference about the FDA and social media, and on a webinar presented by the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media (with which I am…
Pan Mass Challenge 2011 – Please Support my Ride & Help Lick Cancer
It’s that time again – the Pan Mass Challenge is coming up the first weekend of August, and I will be riding for the eighth time along the 2-day, 200-mile…
Cognitive Risk Declines with Activity
According to research conducted at Rush University Medical Center, frequent social activity may help to prevent or delay cognitive decline in old age. According to research conducted at Rush University…
Malpractice defense: Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia Following Nissen Fundoplication
In addition to my consulting work and writing the Health Business Blog, I’m chairman of the board of Advanced Practice Strategies (APS), a medical risk management firm that provides…
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…
