Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 30-09-2010
We have many clients (and friends) who ask, “what it the one thing I should look for in finding a good nursing home to care for a family member?”
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Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 30-09-2010
For five years now, we have been writing about concentration and abuse of power in health care, and on specific tactics used predominantly by large health care organizations that threaten the values that physicians and other health care professionals once swore to uphold.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 29-09-2010
Recently I made a post about Bill Gates being a keynote speaker at this years mHealth Convention and also linked back to the events of the The Giving Pledge as well. You can revisit some of this at the posts at the link below.
is there any doubt that the mHealth Summit is going to be one of the top events of the year with mobile healthcare?
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Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 29-09-2010
It should not be news to anyone, that some kinds of cancer can be prevented…. and others, when caught early enough, can be treated.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 29-09-2010
You certainly have to be innovative in working with insurers today, thats an
understatement and it appears this is the area where CMS is looking for some innovation as theres a lot of work to be done and when the insurers have all the data and IT infrastructure, its a delicate balance. We need more than just one more software house to solve issues and that seems to be all that we are seeing out there today with everyone jumping on their cost analysis algorithms and telling us how wonderful they are, so a human touch to balance would be nice to bring patient care back in line.
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Filed Under (Health Care) by Admin on 28-09-2010
I have collected another series of stories from the wild and wacky world of health care executive compensation. These are from three different hospitals/ hospital systems, ordered from smallest to largest.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 28-09-2010
Well it just keeps rolling in the analytics game, and Ingenix is a United Health Group subsidiary, so they are into everything just about where analytics are used. 
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Filed Under (Legal Medical) by Admin on 28-09-2010
Its heart breaking but true..
We have people call our office all the time that went to our local Veterans Administration Hospital for care, and something happened.
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 27-09-2010
Beyaz is the same pill formulation as Yaz, just some added vitamins here. Also, earlier this year there was a recall that was kind of hidden on the FDA recall pages relating to Yaz so you can find out more at the link below. 
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Filed Under (The Medical) by Admin on 26-09-2010
When you stop and think about the popularity of the 3 above individuals, they all have one thing in common, they are great communicators, and I like and watch all 3
of them. In todays society I think I have a lot of company in that respect as well. These folks make sense and are talented enough to break through the walls of deaf ears and at least bring about an awareness in areas that others dont seem to approach. All of them not only make us laugh, but they also make us think.
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