Small Bone Innovations Addresses Unmet Needs in Joint Replacement
Small Bone Innovations (SBI) is a specialty medical devices company that has pioneered state-of-the-art orthopedic implants for small bone and joint indications, which is a si Small Bone Innovations (SBI)…
Improving Cancer Patient Care While Markedly Reducing Costs
It is often difficult to appreciate that improving the care of patients can actually reduce the costs of care. Last year Dr H Brody wrote in the New England Journal…
Medication Errors Hospitalizing Seniors Most
According to data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the number of patients treated in a hospital after a bad reaction to medication grew 52% between 2004 and…
Online Communities & Attrition from Health Intervention Programs
Provider-centric, face-to-face health intervention programs that help people quit smoking, lose weight and increase activity levels have been shown to work, but they are expensive, don’t scale, and inconvenient. By…
Peter Diamond for Chief Economic Adviser
Austan Goolsbee, who’s been President Obama’s chief economic adviser since he entered the Senate in 2004, is returning to the University of Chicago. As chairman of the Council of Economic…
Hospitals to patients: Go Away and Don’t Come Back Soon
It seems that Medicare’s focus on reducing readmissions to hospitals is stimulating renewed attention to hospital discharge planning and communications. I’ve found it shocking how patients are often abruptly transitioned…
Driverless Autos
The promise: The benefits of driverless cars are potentially significant. The typical American spends an average of roughly 100 hours a year in traffic; imagine using that time in better…
Three Cheers for Sen. Hatch
The Family and Retirement Health Investment Act of 2011 will: The Family and Retirement Health Investment Act of 2011 will: Allow a husband and wife to make catch-up contributions to…
Soaring Medical Costs Pinned on Medical Devices
The following appeared this morning in The Fiscal Times: The following appeared this morning in The Fiscal Times: While squabbles over the rules for approving new medical devices rarely attract much…
Cancer/Cell Phone Connection Challenged
In the letter, Davis and Balzano, who each have more than 35 years of research experience in the biological effects of wireless telecommunications technology, offered a critique of a paper…
