Reference Pricing and the Role of the Government
Reference pricing for medical procedures constrains costs by capping the amount an insurer will pay for a procedure and making the patient pay the extra amount. In California, Calpers has…
Weight Loss Surgery Enhances Women’s Sexual Function: The Truth Behind Hormones And Your Weight
Many people undergo weight loss surgery as a way to treat morbid obesity and the many conditions related to carrying too many pounds. Many people undergo weight loss surgery as…
How One Woman May Die Because of ObamaCare
For the past twenty years I have been trying to convince my colleagues in the health policy community that managed competition contains perverse economic incentives. These incentives do more than…
Why Doctors Don’t Want to Be Doctors Any Longer
The usual challenges of physician recruitment, physician relations and physician marketing are all contending with an unhappy dynamic: Many doctors simply don’t want to be a doctor any longer. The…
RSNA 2013: Three Considerations for Mixing “Ologies” in Image-Enabled EHRs
Many sites that have successfully implemented certified EHRs have evaluated or potentially integrated a medical imaging portal to view images and comply with the image access measures in Stage 2…
Who or What Is Det Norske Veritas?
Health industry followers quickly become accustomed to the alphabet soup and acronyms of the academic medicine and healthcare worlds. JCAHO, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, known…
Cleveland Clinic’s Next Commercial Venture: Blood Tests for Cancer
First published on MedCityNews.com. Cleveland Clinic’s commercialization arm, Innovations, has spun off its fifth company this year in a joint project with an existing Cleveland startup. First published on MedCityNews.com. Cleveland Clinic’s…
What Does It Mean to Be Conscious?
A study published on October 31 in the online open source journal NeuroImage: Clinical further blurs the boundaries of what it means to be conscious. A study published on October 31 in…
Amazing Heart in a Box Keeps Donated Organs Beating During Transport [VIDEO]
Heart In A Box | Debbie Chesebro, Josh Kurz & Shane Winter from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.First published on MedCityNews.com.This short film is over a year old, but it’s…
