National Patient Safety Foundation Launches 7/365 Campaign for Patient Safety
March 3rd-9th, 2013 is Patient Safety Awareness Week!This year, the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) will focus on medication safety and healthcare culture and safety with their Patient Safety 7/365 Campaign:…
FDA Letter Mentions Internal Site Search
We recently reviewed this FDA warning letter sent on January 29, 2013 to Medical Doctors Research (MDR), a nutritional supplement manufacturer. We recently reviewed this FDA warning letter sent on…
Data Mining, Algorithm Medicine and Skeptics
My recent Perspective on iHealthbeat focused on the uses of data mining of EMR data which are yet to be fully exploited. My thoughts were provoked by a New York Times…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Using Medical Education to Drive Adoption of High-Value Care
The biggest problem with health care costs in the United States is not that they are too high. Nor is it the fact that they are rising. The biggest problem…
Dartmouth: Risk Adjustment Doesn’t Work
The new study by the Dartmouth Atlas Project, published today in the health journal BMJ, faults the practice of trying to assess how sick patients are by looking at records…
The Price of Obtaining Healthcare Today
Posted in CMSCorporateHealthcare Policy & The MediaPharma & DevicesPolitics Posted in CMSCorporateHealthcare Policy & The MediaPharma & DevicesPolitics & The LawScience & ResearchYou don’t have to be a healthcare policy…
Doctors and Social Media: Legal Aspects and Bottom Line
The health care social media legal series continues here on Healthin30, and legal expert, David Harlow, Esq, Health Care Attorney and Consultant at The Harlow Group, LLC in Boston, answers…
More Medical Monopoly-Yes, Medical Bills Are Killing Us!
image credit: James N. Vail image credit: James N. VailLast week's post called medicine in the U.S. a monopoly. I took some heat for using that metaphor from some of…
Personal QR Codes Can Help First Responders
When a first responder arrives on the scene of an emergency call and finds an unresponsive victim, it can be a very delicate, difficult situation. Little information about the patient…
What Will Universal Health Coverage Actually Cover?
This is a joint post with Ursula Giedion. This is a joint post with Ursula Giedion.This week the World Health Organization held a major international meeting on universal health coverage…
