Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Illness
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Synthesis Project has produced an excellent report and accompanying policy brief entitled Mental disorders and medical comorbidity. The publications provide a variety of insights and…
Microsoft Innovation Awards 2011
Microsoft has opened the call for entries for the 2011 Life Sciences Innovation Awards, where customers and partners can demonstrate how they are implementing Microsoft technology to revolutionize the industry.…
First Light Develops Screening to Prevent Infections
First Light Biosciences is a development stage company developing novel medical diagnostic products for preventing and detecting healthcare associated infections. The company’s MultiPath technology, which uses digital imaging to count…
How Massachusetts’ Commonwealth Connector is Better than Utah’s Health Exchange
The range of current libertarian-conservative expert opinion on ObamaCare’s Health Benefits Exchanges has well-defined boundaries. On the one hand, there are those who believe that states are obliged to establish…
Use of Light Technology Avoids Blood Clotting
ThromboVision is a medical devices company that has developed a technological platform to determine an individual’s susceptibility to thrombosis, an adverse blood clot formation that can cause blockage of blood…
Sphere Medical Develops Innovative Monitoring Platform
Sphere Medical is a medical device company that has developed a technological platform for the development of advanced physiological monitoring devices, including apparatuses for use in hospital’s intensive care unit.…
Essential Tremor Clinicals Start Successfully!
A promising new, noninvasive treatment for patients with essential tremor is making headlines this week. As announced yesterday in a Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation press release, a clinical trial at…
Feds to Regulate Rocket Fuel Levels in Tap Water
After nearly a decade of inaction, the US government is finally going to set safety standards for perchlorate in the nation’s water supply. Perchlorate is a rocket fuel additive that…
How Patient Satisfaction Surveys Really Help
Physicians are understandably skeptical about the validity and usefulness of patient satisfaction and experience ratings. Yet after reading Moving the needle on satisfaction scores in Today’s Hospitalist, I’m encouraged to…
Nurses’ Strike Cost $6 Million
We are seeing more and more of this to where sides can’t sit down and negotiate. We had it at Kaiser in southern California a couple weeks ago. Most of…
