Economist Highlights the Home Birth Debate
The latest issue of the Economist highlights the debate about home births (Is there no place like home?) and notes the charged atmosphere that prevails between supporters and detractors. They…
Diabetes and Obesity Driving Global Treatment Markets
Diabetes drives many healthcare costs and is now part of a trend that encompasses increasing prevalence of obesity and its co-morbidities. The result is that any improvements (read "technology advances")…
LifeCare Shows Glucose Level in Ordinary Wristwatch
LifeCare is a medical devices company that has developed a technological platform for continuous glucose monitoring in diabetic patients. The company’s technology is based on a tiny glucose micro-sensor that…
The Doctor’s Not In. You’ll Have to See a Nurse.
California is among 23 states that allow nurse practitioners to act as primary care providers without a doctor’s supervision, a move aimed at stemming a shortage of physicians and reducing…
Small Is Big: New Vscan Technology May Replace The Stethoscope
GE’s drive to miniaturize technologies in order to make them more mobile couldn’t be better illustrated than with the breakthrough Vscan technology that GE’s Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt unveiled…
Drug Delivery Treatments for Cancer Should be Fast-tracked
Focal Drug Delivery Workshop Supercharges Research and Development Community Held March 21-23, 2011, the FUS Foundation’s first Focal Drug Delivery Workshop marked a major milestone in the field of MR-guided…
New Genetic Information Propels Alzheimer Research
For all of the policy posts here on Doctor Pundit, it is especially cool when we’re able to relay news based upon purely scientific discovery. It’s even more amazing if…
Ponzi Schemes
Jack Lew is lucky he isn’t in prison. Were he representing a private pension fund and if he made the sort of statements he made in USA Today the other…
Look beyond traditional health IT tools for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) implementations
Now that CMS has announced the Medicare Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations or ACOs. The new program is another incentive program, like Meaningful Use (MU), but unlike MU…
Florida House Passes Medicaid Privatization Plan
First of all let’s not forget who is running the state as Governor, a former CEO of HCA who admitted stole billions of dollars in Medicare/Medicaid funds. Does this give…
