Tag: healthcare business

County Run Stroger Hospital Launches Advertising Campaign to Lure Patients From Other Hospitals

This is the first I have heard of a county hospital anywhere…

BarbaraDuck BarbaraDuck

Administrative Costs

I take a back seat to no one in complaining about the…

JohnCGoodman JohnCGoodman

Health Care Buzz Today

NIH to Create Genetic Test Database. Hoping to improve healthcare research and…

GlennLaffel GlennLaffel

The 15 Most-Watched Medical-Device Stocks

Interesting, although not particularly surprising (from Motley Fool).  Interesting, although not particularly…

PatrickDriscoll PatrickDriscoll

More On Why There Are Drug Shortages

See our previous posts here and here. This is Zeke Emanuel, writing…

JohnCGoodman JohnCGoodman

Health Care Buzz Today

Antidepressant Scripts Often Lack Diagnosis. Almost three-quarters of the antidepressant prescriptions written…

GlennLaffel GlennLaffel

New Technologies at Medtech Startups in July 2011

Below is the list of technologies at companies identified during the month…

PatrickDriscoll PatrickDriscoll

Health Care Buzz Today

$400M in EHR Incentives Released. The government has paid $400 million in…

GlennLaffel GlennLaffel

Healthcare Spend at Historic Low

In a rare bit of good news for the Obama administration and…

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Is Cost-Effective Medicine on Life Support?

The concept of cost-effectiveness in medicine is elastic. One’s view on this…

Michael Kirsch Michael Kirsch