Healthcare Consumerism
As a senior analyst for a research based investment bank, it shouldn’t be surprising when personal health experiences and areas of focus for our strategic advisory practice collide. With increasing…
Tweets from American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting 2011
Here's a window into the American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting this week in Boston: Tweets by me and a few others from the event. If you are within range…
Investment in Medtech Continues Upward Trend
Financings for medical technology during the month of June 2011 have passed $400 million, continuing a trend of above average monthly investment. Year-to-date financing for January to June 2011 is…
Making Cigarette Smoking Uncool
Pause to consider the logic here. We decide it is not a good idea to let the government ban this product, or to require a doctor’s prescription to consume it.…
Is Medicare A Good Deal?
Think about everything you will pay to support Medicare: the payroll taxes while you are working, the premiums during retirement, and your share of the income taxes that subsidize the…
Extra Pounds at Midlife May Boost Dementia Risk Later
According to Health Day News, being overweight during middle age may increase your risk of developing dementia. Swedish researchers suggest that being overweight at midlife increases the risk of dementia…
Medtronic, Infuse and the Senate Finance Committee
Spinal fusions jumped 1,500% among Medicare patients between 2002 and 2007. The explosion had nothing to do with changes in prevalence of the conditions for which the complex surgery is…
Sepsis: A Challenge for Patients and Hospitals
I thought I'd carry through on Infection Control again this week and share some new data I recently came across on Septicemia, commonly known in the hospital as, Sepsis. This…
Fed Gov’t Approves Covert Study of Access to Primary Care
The federal government is planning what has been termed as a “stealth survey” of predominantly primary care delivery systems in order to determine access-to-care data. The Obama administration is hoping…
SCOTUS Rules on a Couple of Important Pharma Cases
Clarence Thomas wrote for the 5-4 decision in which companies were shielded from lawsuits by consumers suffering from adverse effects of certain drugs. Anthony Kennedy, the SCOTUS justice often seen…
