Study: EDs Closing at Significant Rates
The default line of thinking with respect to care access in this country pre-reform was that — whatever the patient outcome — there was “always the ER”. Doesn’t take a…
Racial Disparities in Health Care: The Hundred Years’ War
It was 1999 when the Federal government first acknowledged our nation had a problem with race and health care. That year, Congress tasked the Institute of Medicine to study the…
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iPad Used To Track Progress of Spinal Surgery Patients. An online health tracker that requires patients to use the iPad to record and track surgical recovery metrics was launched last…
Publix Closing ‘Little Clinic” Retail Medical Clinics
40 clinics within Publix grocery stores in Florida and Georgia still operated under the name The Little Clinic but are no longer owned by Little Clinic and are being closed…
Where is the Potential for Improving Wound Closure and Management?
A driving force in medtech development is one that creates incentive for improving healthcare in ways that can be demonstrated, or at least marketed. Put simply, if a manufacturer can…
California Dreamin’
According to a city report on lifeguard pay for the calendar year 2010, of the 14 full-time lifeguards, 13 collected more than $120,000 in total compensation; one lifeguard collected $98,160.65.…
Health Care Inflation
This graph is from Milliman, courtesy of Uwe Reinhardt, who provides this commentary: This graph is from Milliman, courtesy of Uwe Reinhardt, who provides this commentary: The estimated average cost…
Physicians Too Aggressive in Ordering Prostate Screenings
Many elderly men may be undergoing unnecessary—and perhaps complicating—prostate cancer screenings, according to a study on the use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening methods in the United States. Researchers reported…
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Navy Calling on Gamers To Help with Security. The Office of Naval Research is rolling out the military’s first-ever online war game open to the public, crowd-sourcing the challenges of…
Repeal Without Replace Starts Destroying GOP’s Chances
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) gave Republicans a great big target to shoot at, and they’ve worked up so much energy attacking so-called ObamaCare that they’ve dug…
