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Jan

22

Cigna Expanding It’s Horizons Outside the US – Global Trade Union in the UK Investigating NHS and Insurance Marketing and Potential Contracts

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 22-01-2010

Over the last 2 years I have had posts on many of the health insurance companies exploring making money outside the US, Blue Cross in China for one example and so on.  They are all doing it, as when you are traded on the stock market, money, money, money talks.  This one global trade union sees the writing on the wall and is conducting their own investigation, for fear of losing their healthcare as they know it today through the NHS, and if I were over there I would probably be doing the same thing.  Cigna, for example here hired one of the big chief executives from BUPA, one of the companies being investigated by the Global Trade Union.  BUPA also has an interest in Asia.image

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Jan

22

The Price is What?

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 22-01-2010

Many in the US believe that a free market in health care is a good idea.  Some actually assert that the US health care system amounts to a free market. 

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Jan

22

Doctor’s Office Gets Hit By A Meteorite – Nobody Hurt in the Exam Room Where It Landed

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 22-01-2010

It was fully verified by scientists and the local news agency in Virginia took it to the Smithsonian.  It came through the roof and the firewall and pushed ceiling tile imageinto the carpet and into the floor; lucky neither doctor nor patient were in the exam room when it came barreling in.  This was the 4th recorded meteorite to fall in Virginia. 

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Jan

22

WORST NURSING HOMES IN VIRGINIA

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 22-01-2010

This is not a scientific study. Nor does my “research” rely on facility visits, or federal investigations like www.medicare.gov’s Medicare’s five-star rating of nursing homes does.

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Jan

22

Operation Aurora And a Widespread Reluctance to Discuss IT Flaws: Is Universal Healthcare IT Really a Good Idea in 2010?

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 22-01-2010

In an essay that ties together recent exposs of serious IT security flaws (starting with Operation Aurora) and a culture of secrecy that pervades the IT industry and industries who use IT, I ask the question:

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Jan

21

Grassley Send Hospitals – If He Participated As an E-Patient, We Might See Some Better Questions Asked And He Could Have a Better Idea About How Health IT Works and the Value It Creates

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 21-01-2010

Once more, thats the problem with all these folks, they dont participate.  Everyone in Health IT can see it and we make posts such as this one on blogs to discuss it.  If he really wanted to learn about Health IT, it would behoove him to visit the Garfield Center at Kaiser, he would learn a lot at that place.  Im looking through the lists of questions on the Wall Street Journal and I feel sorry for hospitals having to answer some of these questions and can imagine what the IT folks are saying imagetoo as they are posed from a non participant stand point.  Being an E-Patient is the best way for members of Congress to gain knowledge and understand what the public is looking for in reform.

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Jan

21

Grassley asks hospitals about experiences with federal health information technology program

Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 21-01-2010

At the Oct. 24, 2009 posting “Washington Post: EMR’s No Cure-All; Sen. Grassley Sends Letter of Inquiry to health IT vendors” I mentioned an Oct. 16, 2009 letter to major healthcare IT vendors from Senator Charles E. Grassley (ranking member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance) initiating a Senate investigation of corporate practices. That letter is here (PDF).

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Jan

20

Not To Be Left Out, White House Has an IPhone App Now Too – It’s Free Of Course

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 20-01-2010

More information can be read at the White House Blog.  In addition a full mobile browser is in the works too.  It will be set up to watch the State of the Union address too.  This makes sense since mobile use grew 100% last year, and to think we sill have so many that still just use a cell phone for phone calls only.  BD 

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Jan

20

INFECTED PRESSURE SORES CAN LEAD TO AMPUTATION

Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 20-01-2010

Many bed-ridden or immobile nursing home residents develop pressure sores or decubitus ulcers. These horrible wounds can and should be prevented by frequent repositioning of the resident, along with good hydration and nutrition.
Despite the pain and humiliation caused by these wounds, they really get scary when the wound becomes infected.

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Jan

20

Hospital Lay Offs Will Hit an All Time High for 2009 - AMA

Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 20-01-2010

The article from the AMA also said that layoffs started to slide down a bit toward the end of the year, not as many, which I saw too as I didnt have the substantial material to keep up with my Desperate Hospitals series.  We still have items as in Hawaii where the system is continuing to lose money. 

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