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| Mo. healthcare facility to pay $60M | | 2008-07-22 16:05:53 | | SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 22 — A Missouri healthcare facility will pay $60 million for allegedly engaging in improper Medicare billing practices, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
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| Why Preventive Care is Important in a Healthcare Plan Provider | | 2008-06-08 23:02:00 | | More and more progressive healthcare plan providers are offering patients preventive care options. This helps offset the number one concern of most consumers – cost.When shopping for health insurance or any sort of healthcare plan, most consumers seek to protect themselves and their families from the potentially disastrous cost of major illness and hospitalization. Hence, preventive care is often an overlooked benefit that many consumers may not give sufficient consideration.Following are some benefits of preventive care that you should consider when looking for a health insurance or a healthcare plan.What is Preventive Healthcare?A broad definition of preventive healthcare is “measures taken to identify life-threatening illnesses or habits with an eye towards curing, modifying and preventing them.” In other words, preventive care can be anything that helps you stave off illness and live a healthier lifestyle.Why Preventive Healthcare is ImportantPreventive healthcare is importan | | By: All of Health Insurance | | |
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| | Mobile Healthcare Services | | 2008-05-22 12:01:59 | | 22 May 2008As the morning brightens the day, I rushed myself to my Aunt's place to bring my Grandmother for her regular medical appointment. Since I am having a long vacation now, I thought it was a good idea to relieve my Aunt.At 8.40am sharp, 3 personnels from APAC Mobile Healthcare Services came. They carried Grandmother on a mat and placed her on a stretcher. After loading the stretcher into the ambulance, the maid and I tagged along.This was the first time I sat in an ambulance, albeit a private one. This ambulance was driven by a crew of dedicated and passionate staff. Through my observation, I find that they are very detailed and meticulous. Really admire their professionalism.The usual limelight on the healthcare industry falls on the well-qualified doctors, professional nurses, and emergency rescue personnels. They are the heroes in numerous dramas and movies. Yet, few would look up to these diligent group of people that delivers immobile patients to and fro hospitals.APAC Mob | | By: My Encounters, My Life | | |
| | Healthcare tourism new trend for UAE | | 2008-05-03 01:42:48 | | The Wellness and Spas Middle East exhibition is set to be firmly established as the largest exhibition of its kind in the Middle East, fueled by the upsurge of 11.2 million medical tourists expected to arrive …
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| | Finland opens doors to RP healthcare professionals | | 2008-05-02 22:26:00 | | MANILA, Philippines - As its baby boom generation reaches retirement age, Finland is open to accepting Filipino health care professionals, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Friday.Read the full article:http://www.gmanews.tv/story/92970/Finland-opens-doors-to-RP-healthcare-professionals
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| | Wal-Mart and Healthcare | | 2008-04-28 21:56:45 | | I’ve been hearing a lot about these quick-stop clinics staffed by nurse practitioners. I hear about them in the news or read about them online. They seem to be on the east coast or midwest. Or maybe I’m just not paying any attention to them here locally.
As someone going into a medical career, this is [...] | | By: JeffreyMD | | |
| | | Patient Healthcare | | 2008-04-21 11:04:48 | | The once old KKH had undergone so much changes. Over the past few years, I had visited here, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and this is another great change today.
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I need more time to put up the beautiful photographs or rather the beautiful ‘new’ place which I had visited on Saturday, [...] | | By: Health Motivator | | |
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| | A Free Market In Healthcare? | | 2008-04-07 17:07:17 | | No doubt Doctors will try to quash this. . .
From Crain's:
Retail health clinics have made their way into metro Detroit and are competing with doctors' offices for routine patient visits. Clinics contend that the quality of care is high and that when a patient requires urgent care or a visit to a physician's office, the process is seamless, said May Hang, manager of operations in Detroit for...
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| | ICICI Lombard partnered with US healthcare firm United Health Group | | 2008-03-19 04:17:01 | | India's 2nd biggest health insurer, ICICI Lombard is partnering with US based United Health Group to provide Indian travellers to the US with a broad range of health care services. Through this program, Any of ICICI Lombard's 1.6 million policy holders travelling to the US will be provided the United Healthcare's preferred provider network as well as medical management and organised resources that align to their health needs, according to a company announcement.About United Health Group: Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United Health Group is one of the largest and most diverse health care companies in the US. It offers a broad spectrum of products and services through seven operating businesses to about 70 million Americans."This partnership is an innovative benefit for Indians who are increasingly travelling abroad for both occupational and educational purposes."said Sudhir Menon, Head, Travel Insurance, ICICI Lombard.Ori Karev, CEO of United Health International, said: "Our | | By: Best Investments in India | | |
| | Healthcare Market | | 2008-03-10 15:59:00 | | Why Seneca Data for Healthcare?Seneca Data helps hospitals, clinics and physicians’ associations improve patient care through the use of information technology solutions. Seneca Data offers critical technologies to support key healthcare initiatives like:* Computerized Physician Order Entry;* Electronic Medical Record; * Picture Archiving and Communication Systems; * Mobile Point of Care.Seneca Data brings innovative technology solutions to healthcare organizations to enhance patient care and patient safety while supporting regulatory compliance. We believe that the digitization of healthcare creates a more efficient clinical workflow, allowing for better staff utilization, information flow and patient care. Electronic Medical RecordElectronic Medical Records (EMRs) are a computer-based patient medical record. EMR facilitates include: - A central repository of a patient’s healthcare information; - Access of patient data by clinicians in any location; - Ability to check for allergy | | By: Medicines for good health | | |
| | Healthcare Comparisons | | 2008-03-05 13:26:40 | | Well it looks like the Democratic nomination just keeps getting more complicated by the minute. Last night Clinton pulled off some victories in Texas, Rhode Island, and Ohio. A while back (in a post titled Hillary Healthcare 2.0)I wrote about the healthcare plan proposed by Hillary. My intention was to highlight the plan so that [...] | | By: JeffreyMD | | |
| | Indoor Fountains And Healthcare | | 2008-02-11 16:02:56 | | Indoor fountains have become very popular these days. Not only do we come across water fountains at offices, hotels, restaurants and convention centers, but we find them at prized corners in individual residents as well. Water fountains are not limited just as elegant beauty items, bringing the nature from the outside to the inside. There [...] | | By: Online Business Alliance & Niches | | |
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| | Healthcare - The NHS and Private Sector | | 2008-01-28 12:01:11 | | Healthcare is something that all of us will need at some point in our lives and within the UK there are two ways of going about getting the treatment that you need. You have a choice between using the state run service in the form of the NHS or you can opt to have your [...] | | By: Online Business Alliance & Niches | | |
| | Hillary Healthcare 2.0 | | 2008-01-25 17:15:32 | | Related Posts: Reforming the U.S. Healthcare System
In the January 8, 2008 New Hampshire Primary, Sen. Clinton edged her opponent Sen. Obama by just 3 percent. With Clinton’s recent New Hampshire win following Obama’s strong showing in Iowa, the race is anything but decided.
How will the 2008 Presidential Elections affect the American healthcare scene? Should Hillary [...] | | By: JeffreyMD | | |
| | | Healthcare | | 2007-12-15 21:20:00 | | This essay is dedicated to analysis of healthcare development, the existing trends and their consequences for the patients and the organizations.
It is common knowledge that with the privatization of healthcare organizations and practices the growth of the number of healthcare specialists has been witnessed. On one hand, this is a positive tendency because patients received more possibilities to | | By: healthy life | | |
| | Advantage Healthcare | | 2007-12-10 00:51:00 | | Advantage Healthcare Quotes, is a service that offers all types of healthcare insurance including traditional fee plans, Small Business Health Coverage Benefits policies, student plans, high deductable, medical savings accounts, Get a quote today for all of your insurance needs.Advantage Healthcare offers great health care programs depending on your needs and individual situation and your overall coverage needs. Traditional Healthcare Options such it is essential to explore all options to decide right health care for a individual. An easy to use website offers health care coverages from the comfort off your home.With the help off website & the questionnaire in oder to get online quote from several differentagencies that will be very happy to issue you a policy. There are many companies offering supplemental health care coverage .Perhaps the most well knownoff them all is AFLAC which uses quacking duck as its spokesman. There fore , it isimportant to consider various factors and c | | By: HealthyBodySoul | | |
| | Reforming the U.S. Healthcare System | | 2007-11-30 17:24:58 | | This quarter I’m taking a course called “Medicine and Ethics.” The class is taught by Dr. X. (name withheld). There are a number of topics that was scheduled to be discussed and each topic was presented by a group of 3 or 4 students. I ended up in a group of four. Our topic, as [...] | | By: JeffreyMD | | |
| | AtriCure to Present at BMO Capital Markets 2007 Healthcare Conference | | 2007-11-30 01:51:00 | | AtriCure, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATRC) , a medical device company and leader in cardiac surgical ablation systems, announced today that David J. Drachman, President and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present at the BMO Capital Markets 2007 Healthcare Conference at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City on Tuesday, December 4th, at 10:00 a.m. ET. A live web cast and recording of the presentation will be available for 30 days following the presentation on AtriCure's Investor Relations page at www.atricure.com. About AtriCure, Inc. AtriCure, Inc. is a medical device company and leader in developing, manufacturing and selling innovative cardiac surgical ablation systems designed to create precise lesions, or scars, in cardiac, or heart, tissues. Medical journals have described the adoption by leading cardiothoracic surgeons of the AtriCure Isolator(R) bipolar ablation clamps as a treatment alternative during open-heart surgical procedures to create lesions in | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
| | No Fat People Allowed in New Zealand: So Much for "Universal" Healthcare | | 2007-11-19 20:43:03 | | We have all heard from liberals how great the healthcare system is in New Zealand; well, at least I have. But, in case you were wondering why “Universal” healthcare is nothing we want to implement in America, just examine a recent news story from New Zealand.
Richie Trezise, 35, a rugby-playing Welshman, lost weight to gain entry to New Zealand after initially being rejected for being...
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| | California May Hike Cigarette Tax by $2 to Increase Healthcare Spending | | 2007-11-06 00:00:00 | | California wants to expand government-provided healthcare. So how do you raise the revenue? Of course, you do what is politically expedient and raise taxes on a politicial minority, that being smokers. From the San Jose Mercury News:Democratic leaders on Monday agreed to key elements of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's health care reform plan, including mandatory insurance, according to a spokesman for Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. They embraced the idea while demanding some exemptions for people who are in financial trouble. Public programs also would expand to cover families earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level-about $62,000 a year for a family of four. Democrats also lowered the minimum amount employers must spend from their previous health care bill, which Schwarzenegger vetoed. The new plan has a sliding scale for employers, with a maximum contribution of 6.5 percent of payroll. Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said the Democratic plan also rai | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Marketing A Healthcare Facility | | 2007-11-01 16:11:07 | | Branding the healthcare facility - a brand is an emotional relationship ( an intangible) which creates or gives an impression to the customer which makes it choose one healthcare facility over the other. There are myriad factors which go into branding a healthcare facility, from whether it is a multi specialty facility or whether it [...] | | By: Online Business Alliance & Niches | | |
| | Only better jobs, economy can stop exodus of healthcare workers | | 2007-10-26 03:41:00 | | Only improved employment and economic conditions in the country can stem the sustained migration of Filipino healthcare professionals, Sen. Loren Legarda said Monday."Amid rapid globalization, the only way we can really discourage our professionals and other highly skilled workers from seeking greener pasture overseas is by willfully enhancing...read more | digg storyhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/FESA
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| | | HCL LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTHCARE | | 2007-09-09 08:13:00 | | HCL is one of the early movers in the Life Sciences and Healthcare space. The Life Sciences practice started in 2002 and within a short span of time has emerged as the fastest growing vertical at HCL with a y-on-y growth of over 100%.HCL is the First Indian Company to have an ISO 13485 certification for design and development of medical devices.It has branches in various countries like US, Europe,Australia, NewZealans, Hongkong, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan. It is also one of the few offshore IT providers for the validation services. It has FDA compliant QMS. HCL is doing some high end work for designs across all classes of medical devices (class I,II, II) with focus on effective risk management flow for software hazard analysis, failure mode effect analysis and worst case and reliability analysis.HCL has been delivering significant value for its Life Science customers through the integrated package of process management, software services and infrastructure management. On a continuous drive for improvement and exceeding client expectations, HCL has been focusing on new ways of value creation:* Multi-Service Integration And Service Innovation* Business Outcome Based Pricing* Innovative Partnership Structures* Forward Looking CustomersIndustry Segments of HCL Life Sciences are Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Medical Device, Healthcare Service Providers, Agri-business & ISVsFor more details, visit HCL HEALTHCARE & LIFE SCIENCESFor any career queries, visit HCL CAREERS | | By: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING | | |
| | | GE HEALTHCARE | | 2007-09-05 11:17:00 | | GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. In 2004, just before the completion of the $9 billion acquisition of U.K.-based Amersham plc, the formerly named GE Medical Systems was renamed GE Healthcare.GE Healthcare has a broad range of products and services that include medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement solutions, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies. These enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. The company's vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.From a brief period from the close of the Amersham acquisition in April 2004 - June 2005, GE Healthcare was organized into two primary business segments: GE Healthcare Technologies, led by Joseph Hogan, and GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences, the former Amersham business segments that were led by Peter Löscher. Those business segment names and organizations were formally dropped in June 2005.PRIMARY BUSINESS UNITSGE Healthcare currently has 6 primary business units:1.) GE Healthcare Global Diagnostic Imaging, headquartered in Waukesha (suburb of Milwaukee), Wisconsin, USAThe Diagnostic Imaging business includes X-ray, digital mammography, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance (MR) and Molecular Imaging technologies.2.)GE Healthcare Clinical Systems, headquartered in Wauwatosa (suburb of Milwaukee), Wisconsin, USAThis business provides a range of healthcare technologies and services for clinicians and healthcare administrators. It includes ultrasound, ECG, bone densitometry | | By: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING | | |
| | Mental Healthcare Reform Update (Opinion) | | 2007-08-28 05:06:16 | |
I've probably always been too much of an idealist and a dreamer when it comes to social problems and the realities in which we live today. Avoiding challenges has never been my style. Even when selecting what types of patients to treat, the more difficult cases have seemed to find their way to me. I have learned so much about human behavior, and the world, over the past several years. I have learned my limits much better over time. I went to medical school hoping to one day make a difference. Upon graduation I felt I could do this most effectively as a psychiatrist and set out to meet the necessary requirements for practicing this art. I have engaged in the practice of psychiatry for over a decade now and feel another crossroad is inevitable in the near future.
I chose to practice within the public sector because the need seemed so great and I felt my efforts would be most rewarding here. I have worked in clinics hospitals, jails, detox units, nursing homes, and office based. The work was always interesting but the systems did not always agree with me or me with them. Private practice has been the most fun, in most aspects, excluding the business component. Even with above average business skills (which I clearly lack) it has become quite difficult for one to get out and stay out of the red. It almost makes me want to cry when I think of the money owed to me that will never be collected and the ongoing game playing with third party insurers who will do anything to avoid paying you what is owed.
Even the North Carolina General Assembly Members in Raleigh admitted during a public forum on UNC TV Sunday that no doctor can afford to keep their doors open if they treat mostly Medicaid and Medicare patients. One in eight citizens in the state receive Medicaid. Cigarette smoking has been identified as a major contributor to consumption of health care dollars but lobbyist have fought to avoid further taxing of cigarettes. They admitted that North Carolina had taken the biggest hit in the nation in regards to lost and outsourcing jobs. Doctors in the town where I work have begun to go out of business. The ones closing up shop seemed to be seeing similar patients to the ones I see. The writing is on the wall, especially for mental health care. I felt better knowing that the General Assembly at least is not ignorant of the situation. They are quite aware of the fact that our state is screwed big time in continuing coverage for those in need of mental health services. They openly admit to having no solutions to the problem. Meanwhile, the area mental health programs slowly grind to a halt and the state mental hospitals begin to shut their doors as predicted over the past years.
My hybrid private practice now open to referrals from the Mental Health Center has about reached its capacity. The phone continues to ring but the inn is full. There are zero other providers in town accepting Medicaid or Medicare. Daily, I become more resentful of being told what I can and cannot prescribe. It only gets worse. Most of my joy came from autonomy and having control over major treatment decisions. This was even more important to me than the financial losses. I do not care for managed care organizations in the least. It is quite clear that they run the show. A perfect storm between managed care and the pharmaceutical industry is imminent. At least the pharmaceutical companies provide a useful service and product. Managed care organizations have one goal, which is to save money for their own use. I feel suspicious of any business whose purpose is to deny one their own benefits. In my opinion, that is why 50 million Americans don't have access to health care, the money is being siphoned away for administrative purposes to deny care to those who are insured. The bottom line once again is "who really cares?"
I once hoped I could retire from the type practice I'm doing now but must face the reality that things are not going to get any better than what the current state of affairs are. I really like the vast majority of the patients I treat and most of the time thoroughly enjoy the work I do. Taxes and overhead are unavoidable realities. For most politicians, whether my practice survives or not is irrelevant. When the 2008 election comes, many voters will again vote against their own best interest. According to Comedian Al Franken, voters will likely be swayed again by campaigns of Fear, Smear, and Queers. I have done the job I do out of choice, not necessity. Out of curiosity, I have found employment offers out in the private sector that would offer several times the yearly money I make with what I am doing now. At some point it becomes foolish not to consider entertaining such offers. Why should I struggle if I don't have to? I have no idea what will become of public sector mental health care but I predict it will not be good. It's a fact that funding for prisons has risen as funding for mental health care has been slashed. However, I will not speculate on that matter. I consider myself a voice in the wilderness and though I never found an effective means for changing things for the masses, I always cared about what the fate of the system would be. I still do. I suspect in 30 years after all the foolishness has failed, I'll probably hear of some young genius using my ideas to advise the leaders of how to fix the catastrophic mess they made of the mental health care system.
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| | Emory Healthcare Holds Snoring Seminar | | 2007-08-11 20:43:36 | | While most people are pretty much aware that snoring and sleep apnea are growing issues today, the need to properly educate and inform people with regards to the things they need to know with regards to these cases can be gathered at this seminar that is being held by the Emory Healthcare and Emory University’s [...] | | By: Sleepzine | | |
| | U.S. Spends a Great Deal on Healthcare While Other Countries Spend Less And Fare Better | | 2007-08-09 05:58:04 | |
Having had a great deal of experience in the health care field, I know for a fact that this is the truth.I also know for a fact that we should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing this health care debacle to continue in our America.No I haven't yet had the privilege of seeing Michael Moore's movie 'SICKO' yet, but I am sure that once I do, I will be sick to my stomach once I leave my theater seat.READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
| | Canadian Universal Healthcare is a Miserable Failure and why Michael Moore and his Film, “Sicko” are Wrong | | 2007-07-29 20:52:00 | | If you want to find the real story of Canada’s failed Universal Healthcare system, look no further than America’s boarder cities. The Buffalo News just reported a story about, Lindsay McCreith, a 66 year-old Canadian retired auto body shop owner. This story, accurately reported by Henry L. Davis, demonstrates why Michael Moore’s new propaganda film, “Sicko” is patently misleading.McCreith experienced seizures on Jan. 2, 2006, and was diagnosed with a benign tumor based on a CT scan. A physician at a Canadian hospital declined to order an MRI to rule out a malignancy. McCreith’s family doctor agreed to request the more-definitive scan, but McCreith was told he would have to wait over four months for the appointment.According to McCreith, had he been patient and followed the Canadian system, he would have died. Instead, McCreith went to Buffalo to receive treatment the very next day. In Buffalo, he was told he had a malignant tumor, which required a biopsy. After tryin | | By: Copious Dissent - Your Daily Dose of Liberty | | |
| | Lean healthcare link carnival | | 2007-07-27 07:58:19 | |
Saturday is Lean Healthcare link carnival day!
Each and every Saturday I collect the top 10 breaking lean healthcare stories and best blog posts from across the interweb and present them here, to you, in one handy bite size piece for your reading pleasure.
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| | | Healthcare Bloggers Code of Ethics | | 2007-07-20 07:15:36 | | The HONcode is the oldest and most widely used ethical code concerning the quality and trustworthiness of medical and health related information available on the internet. It was created for evaluating medical and health websites and outlines eight ethical standards in the presentation of medical and health information online.
To become HONcode accredited and display the HONcode seal, there is an application process and an annual review. The aim of the HONcode is to protect the reader by ensuring that they know the source and purpose of medical and health information they read on the internet.
A new ethical code designed specifically for the healthcare blogger is the Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics. The code allows the blogger to identify the standards by which they blog. The Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics covers issues pertaining to confidentiality, privacy and commercial disclosure. It offers some protection for both the reader, in terms of blogger disclosure of credentials an | | By: Highlight HEALTH | | |
| | Healthcare Costs and the Looming U.S. Budget Crisis | | 2007-06-20 18:49:54 | | The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report last month on the state of the U.S. economy (1). The report warns that the U.S. is headed for a budget crisis unless it reforms healthcare spending. Without reform, the report forecasts that healthcare costs will consume approximately 20% of GDP by 2050:
“The major entitlement programmes – Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – are the main reason that government finances are on an unsustainable course. Under current law, public spending on retirement and health programmes is expected to rise toward 20% of GDP by the middle of the century; resulting soaring budget deficits would entail a government debt twice the size of GDP at that time. Raising tax rates to finance such spending would be an expensive and inefficient solution. Entitlement reform is therefore essential to address this longer-term fiscal challenge. The problem facing Social Security is population ageing. As the post-World War | | By: Highlight HEALTH | | |
| | Healthcare Reform | | 2007-06-05 03:22:21 | | With all this pressure building to reform America's healthcare system, President Bush has launched what may be his most ambitious bid to tackle the issue from a free- market basis.
In the last few months the momentum has appeared stronger in another direction: States have been considering mandates on employers and individuals to purchase health insurance.
President Bush, by contrast, wants to help more Americans get health insurance coverage by creating new tax deductions. He's trying to wipe away a longstanding problem that America's tax code has protected: that health insurance is more affordable for large employers than for small employers or individual households.
Democrats in Congress say the president's idea is too little. And some analysts say that, coming seven years into his administration, it is too late.
Still, the debate over how best to contain spiraling costs and cover millions who are uninsured is far from over. Bush has made a bid for conserv | | By: Insurance news | | |
| | Combating the Notion of Free Healthcare | | 2007-06-01 04:46:00 | | Nearly every democrat Presidential candidate has touted the idea that we NEED universal healthcare. Not to be outdone by Mrs. Bill Clinton’s failed plan of 13 years ago, the Senator formerly known as Barry Obama has unveiled his own plan. Such plans continue to exploit the intellectual laziness and bankruptcy that exists on the left and in the upper echelons of the Democrat party. How in good conscious can Barry refer to healthcare provided through a government conduit as free? Since he is running for president, I must ask if he believes government provided Defense, highways, clean water and food stamps are free? He must realize that healthcare, like all other material things, are scarce resources that have alternative uses (this is the basis of economics).Unfortunately, it is not just the communists and socialists who believe in free lunches. There are many well-meaning Americans who believe that certain things in life should be free. Simply asking these people why such things ought | | By: Copious Dissent - Your Daily Dose of Liberty | | |
| | The Medical Blogosphere and the State of Healthcare Blogging | | 2007-05-24 08:35:12 | | Healthcare Vox published an article earlier this week entitled “Is the Medical Blogosphere Dying?”, commenting on the number of well-known medical bloggers leaving the blogosphere. Although I don’t think the medical blogosphere is dying, recent events have been a catalyst for change and it’s definitely undergoing a transformation.
The Blog That Ate Manhattan agrees, saying “I for one do not think that the medical blog is an endangered species”. The article shares some thoughts on medical blogging and some of the things learned over the past few months.
Dr. Dinosaur shares these thoughts:
“Sometimes several blogs disappear within a short span of time, leaving the erroneous impression that the events are somehow connected. The concern about “Who’s next?” isn’t all that different from the forty-five year old man with a neighbor and cousin who each dropped dead of heart attacks in the last two weeks. To the patient, it mak | | By: Highlight HEALTH | | |
| | Healthcare Self-Management Suggestions for e-Patients | | 2007-04-29 06:58:35 | | We are witnessing a transformation of healthcare into the information age. The Internet has become a powerful healthcare resource for both physicians and patients. e-Patients represent a new type of informed health consumer, a term encompassing both primary patients who use the Internet to educate themselves about a given medical condition for their own illness and the friends and family members who go online on their behalf (1).
In 2003, a WebMD study found that the Internet was the primary source of health information for consumers, spending more time researching health information online than any other media source (2). According to another study, Internet health seekers reported two effects of online health resources - better health information and services, and different (but not always better) relationships with their doctors (3). A 2005 survey found a significant number of respondents that turn to the Internet for health issues. When extrapolated to millions of American adults w | | By: Highlight HEALTH | | |
| | COW fit for Healthcare | | 2007-02-15 09:51:00 | | Using a handheld wand scanning device, researchers at California's Stanford University Medical Center quickly found sponge gauze tagged with radio frequency identification chips (RFID) 100 percent of the time, according to the results of a preliminary study published in this month's Archives of Surgery. When asked to name the key driver of RFID adoption in healthcare, 70% responded improved patient safety. Improved patient flow and general productivity came in second.Do healthcare professionals in your organization want laptop computers? Tablet PCs? Plain old desktop machines? Personal digital assistants? Sure. All can work just fine in clinical environments. But nurses on patient floors, currently the heaviest users of IT on the clinical side at Hoag, need a degree of mobility, and that means computers-on-wheels, or COWs — typically laptop computers mounted on heavy-duty carts that also carry full-size keyboards, mice, and extended-life batteries. The laptops connect to hospital s | | By: The Health Archive | | |
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