Social Media in Health Care: The Genie is out of the Bottle
Fifteen years ago, protecting patient confidentiality was a simple matter for physicians. Keep your voice down in restaurants and elevators, make sure the door is closed when you speak on…
Health Care Buzz Today
Aetna To Encourage Health With Online Gaming. The giant insurer announced a collaboration with Seattle-based Mindbloom to offer an online personal wellness game to its enrollees. Aetna To Encourage Health…
State Health Reform in California
Health Reform made a number of changes for State’s health care policies. But states themselves have also been enacting legislation to alter health care payment policies and regulations. The CHCF…
Trends in Wounds and Wound Management
Wound management is driven by a surprising array of technologies, but the motive force behind technology development is the trends in nature and distribution of different wound types. Below is…
New York Times Charges Web Readers: Whistleblower Wondering
A few months ago, the publisher of my beloved New York Times issued
Obesity Management – Metabolic Pathways
Management of obesity is far from a simple process, despite the prevailing simple notion that all that need be understood is that the condition results from consuming more calories than…
MakoPlasty Robotic Surgical Procedure for Knee Replacements
I first wrote about the MakoPlasty FDA approved robot back in 2008 you can use the link below to find I first wrote about the MakoPlasty FDA approved robot back…
Thought Controlled Car–Brain Drive Has Arrived
This could be scary for me as I might end up in too many wrecks with my thoughts :) By now we have all heard about the Google car that…
Surprise: Long-Term Care in California is Very Wasteful
$7 billion worth of services for 1 million of the state’s low-income aged and disabled citizens are provided by seven different departments, none of which are coordinated via a central…
Defending the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY)
Pity the QALY. The health economist’s admittedly imperfect measure has become a whipping boy of those who pretend the US can sustain policies that ignore aggregate spending levels in health…
