Quality of Life Adjustments Don’t Matter for Cancer Treatment Cost Effectiveness
In a paper in Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, Dan Greenberg from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Peter J. Neumann from the Center for the Evaluation of…
SkinPut – A Touchscreen on Your Skin
Back in October of 2010 I wrote about Skinput and thought it was the solution for input and that was before Kinect came along and it still could be a…
How the Ipad is Changing Medicine-Apple Endorsement from Dr. Halamka At Harvard Medical With Real Time Applications and User Information
When you stop and think about endorsements I feel this one is important, why? Dr. Halamka is not only a doctor but also a computer science expert, so there’s a…
Consider MySQL ‘Archive’ Storage Engine to Store Large Amounts of Med Device Structured or Waveform Data
I’ve been working on med device integrations for the many years now and one of the most common questions that arises when doing those integrations is “what’s the best way…
Largest One-YearJump in Health Spending
According to a recent Health Affairs paper, health care spending as a share of GDP grew by the largest percentage point increase since the U.S. government has tracked national health…
V-Go™ Disposable No-Needle Insulin Delivery Device Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance to use Valeritas Drug
For those who want a disposable system without needles this is a solution to the big stick. Two different medications have now been approved to be used with the device.…
Nurses Hold One Day Strike at Kaiser’s Sunset Boulevard Medical Center (Los Angeles) To Bring Attention To Patient Safety
The Los Angeles Kaiser facility takes care of some of the sickest patients and thus the nurses feel some additional attention is needed here. There has not been a strike…
Tight Dress Sends Joan Collins to the Hospital
We all want to look good and according to this article the dress caused the actress to become faint. How tight was the dress one may wonder? An ambulance took…
Stop The Bleeding!
Expedient methods to clot the wound when only seconds count! Each year, there are more than 70 million emergency department visits for bleeding. Bleeding, or acute hemorrhage in medical terms,…
Two Visions for Health Reform
How can the federal government encourage low-cost, high-quality medical care? There are basically two approaches: a bottom-up, market-based approach and a top-down command-and-control approach: The former is based on competition,…
