Tattering the Safety Net
Here is irony: the people who talk the most about the need for a social safety net (including the president himself!) are cheerleaders for a health reform that is going…
Patient Context Workflow
This blog post is intended as a high level review of the issues surrounding the creation and management of patient context for data acquired from medical devices. This post is…
Vegetable Oils Claiming to Lower Cholesterol May Actually Increase Heart Disease Risk
Nutritionists say the polyunsaturated fats known as omega-3 and omega-6 are essential to human health. Nutritionists say the polyunsaturated fats known as omega-3 and omega-6 are essential to human health.…
$15M Boost for CardioInsight, Heart-Mapping Firm
First published on MedCityNews.com. CardioInsight Technologies said today that it had secured “long-term strategic financing” that will allow it to complete ongoing clinical trial First published on MedCityNews.com. CardioInsight Technologies said today…
Risk Management: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
Risk management is a rather colloquial term. It is tough for anyone to determine exactly what it entails in any and all business environments. Risk management is a rather colloquial…
Health Exchange Enrollment: Speed of Light or…Molasses
Much has been said and written about the dearth of new commercial health insurance plan enrollees on the federal and state exchanges and, by contrast, the excessive numbers of Medicaid…
The “Deep State” in American Health Care
In a recent blog entry, The Wall Street Journal‘s Peggy Noonan suggested the existence of a “deep state” within the national-security apparatus of the U.S. government. In a recent blog…
More New PCI DSS 3.0 Requirements: Control Access, Two-Factor Authentication and POS Security
Yesterday, I blogged about the new PCI DSS 3.0 document that contains a number of clarifications, additional guidance and evolving (new) requirements. The part I’m going to focus on is…
Polio Outbreak in Europe? Disease in Middle East Imperils the Continent as Syrians Seek Refuge
As of October 31 of this year, 322 new cases of polio have been reported worldwide as compared to just 177 at this date last year, according to the Global Polio…
Imaging Startup Developing Cheaper, Simpler PET Scanning in Preclinical Research
Image credit: Sofie Biosciences Image credit: Sofie BiosciencesFirst published on MedCityNews.com. When you think of medical imaging, you likely think of x-rays, MRIs and ultrasounds. But imaging technologies are also…
