Waking Up? GOP Governors Want to Talk to Obama About Health Reform
Republican Governors had been busy talking at –rather than with– the Administration about the Affordable Care Act. Now that President Obama has won re-election their tune is changing at least…
New Oral Blood Cancer Treatments Bring True Excitement in CLL and CML
Is chemo dead? Maybe not yet, but in some diseases it is fading fast. In 2000 I was one of the early patients to receive FCR for chronic lymphocytic leukemia…
Engaging Consumers for Improved Cost, Quality and Outcomes
Following closely on the heels of the mHealth Summit, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) recently released the research report, “Improving Quality and Reducing Risk in Health Care: Engaging Consumers Using…
(Health Care) Change Is Coming: Strategies for 2013
So, You’re Uninsured So, You’re Uninsured You’re a freelance writer, a photographer, a visual artist, a master carpenter, a singer – or maybe you’re hatching the next great invention or…
“Guns, Kids, and Commonsense
Another gun massacre and another round of rhetoric. Us gun control types will yammer about how guns really do kill people (this time elementary school children in Connecticut) and how…
Small Hospitals Realize Financial Benefits from Telemedicine
Return on Investment (ROI) on telemedicine programs is today’s “needle in a haystack.” Return on Investment (ROI) on telemedicine programs is today’s “needle in a haystack.”Often the closest that we…
Healthcare Reform and The Cost of Prescription Drugs: Price Gouging or Providing Hope?
There are many factors that have contributed to the massive healthcare expenditures in the US today. Costs of technology, costs of hospitalizations and hospital based services, physician fees, drug costs…
Searching Online for Health Information
Internet activities go beyond using it to check your email, making online purchases, managing your online banking, playing games or updating your status in the social networking circles.80% of internet…
The Learning Healthcare System and Order Sets
One of the most powerful concepts in changing healthcare is the Learning Healthcare System explained in most detail in this Institute of Medicine report. The concept of using evidence from…
Hospital Advertising Proliferates But Critics Question Purpose and Value
In many respects, St. Louis, MO, in the heartland of America, is a typical hospital marketplace and serves as an example of the national trend in hospital advertising of proliferation.…
