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,…
Critics of Reform Law Try Different Strategy on Heels of DC Gathering
At the recent governors’ meeting on the Hill, the president appeared to offer some sort of appeasement to GOP chief executives in the group who were concerned about just how…
How to Leverage Web 2.0 Through Content Management Systems for Hospitals and Practice Websites
Most hospitals today have static (basic content) websites and many physician practices are putting up a static web presence as well. The more sophisticated health systems and practices, though, are…
How to Develop Lightweight Ancillary Tools Connected to Electronic Health Records Systems
We’re already familiar with the HITECH Act and how it offers money to physicians, hospitals, and multi-hospital systems to become “meaningful users” of certified electronic health records (EHR) systems. Since…
The Elephant in the Room: Discussing Obesity with the Doctor
From the Wall Street Journal (Doctors Should Discuss Obesity With Patients): Patients told by their physicians they were overweight or obese were more likely to acknowledge a weight problem and…
