Why do People in High Deductible Plans Seek Less Preventive Care?
A notable finding from a RAND study How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Affect Vulnerable Populations? is that members in high deductible plans receive fewer preventive services, such as mammography, after…
Congresswoman’s Staff Renews Call for Funding of Care for Complex Head Injuries
Sometimes it only takes a troubling incident — which is then propelled front and center into the nation’s consciousness — to formulate advocacy. AZ congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s close call with…
Older Adults Not Getting Preventive Screenings
A new report from agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services say that critical gaps exist between older Americans who receive preventive services and those who do…
Scribes Continue to Grow in Hospitals
Nobody thought that scribes were going to a permanent solution but it looks like they are. Originally the idea was to help transition doctors over to electronic medical records but…
Does Socialized Medicine Bring More Accountability?
Whenever I’m in Canada I enjoy reading what the newspapers have to say about health care. Today’s Montreal Gazette leads with Hip surgery wait times fail seniors and continues inside…
30 Years Ago All These Baby Boomers Would Have Been in Wheel Chairs
Joint-replacement patients these days are younger and more active than ever before. More than half of all hip-replacement surgeries performed this year are expected to be on people under 65,…
Del Mar Pharmaceuticals Is Fighting Cancer One Molecule At A Time
Cancer is a fighting word. But, Del Mar Pharmaceuticals, a recent addition to the roster of presenting companies at OneMedForum NY 2011, is ready for battle. Cancer is a fighting…
Can a $3 Million Prize Solve a $2.5 Billion Dollar Problem?
If a health plan could predict which patients will incur the most costs, theoretically it could focus on those patients without wasting resources on its healthy enrollees. According to an…
Obama: Ryan’s Ideas Are Too Radical Unless They’re Also My Ideas
What is it about the Ryan plan that liberals find so appalling and unacceptable? What is it about the Ryan plan that liberals find so appalling and unacceptable? Well, according…
Could Bypass Surgery Become a Thing of the Past?
Researchers at the University of Western Ontario, led by Dr. Geoffrey Pickering … have found a solution: …. successfully regenerating the blood vessels, but doing so in a way that…
