Screening for Alzheimer’s Disease: Some Progress
In developed nations, human life expectancy has increased steadily for over a century. One of the few negative consequences of this trend has been a marked increase in the prevalence…
HealthEdge COO Desrochers on ICD-10 (transcript)
This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with HealthEdge COO Ray Desrochers. David Williams: This is David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health…
Microsoft and Sony Collaborate To Announce A Portable Remote HD IP Camera To Be Used For Patient/Physician Consultations
This is quite an interesting device here with the MD2GO from Sony and Microsoft collaborated with some software features to make it a bit more interesting it seems, but has…
Wi-Fi Alliance® and Continua® Health Alliance Collaborate on Personal Connected Health
Continua is the wireless alliance of both software and hardware in healthcare, in other words they create and collaborate on standards for medical devices so we all have the same…
Obesity Counseling: Is Race a Factor?
Most people know that the US is struggling to contain a surging epidemic of obesity, and that the problem is most acute among African-Americans. Whereas about 27% of all adult…
Children & Telehealth
A Pacific Rim Department of Defense study found that telehealth cuts pediatric costs; reducing spending by as much as $750,000 annually. Not surprisingly, reductions were most notable in remote areas…
Should Parents be Allowed to Give Teachers Gifts?
Today’s Boston Globe (Gift limits for teachers irk givers, recipients; Many reject fears of undue influence) goes after an easy target: restrictions and reporting requirements for teachers who receive gifts…
CDC Awards Grant to Connect Hospital Labs to Exchange Test Results and Patient Information Using SureScripts Direct
It looks like the SureScripts network for secure data transmission is going to get a little more business with the latest grant as last week the American Academy of Family…
Hospitals Get Early Start on Medicare Reform Sector
Ripple effect of reform? Perhaps, but in light of the federal government’s push to eliminate waste in Medicare, one arena in which costs are paid out in massive amounts —…
Gastric Bypass Edges Lap-band and Sleeve Gastrectomy in Outcomes
Two recent reports in the Archives of Surgery (Arch Surg. 2011;146:143-148, 149-155) indicate that, in the treatment of moderately to morbidly obese patients, while gastric bypass surgery has a comparable…
