POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare economics

136m Emergency Room Visits

In one year, 2008 to 2009, emergency room visits in the US rose from 128.m to 136m-the largest increase [MORE]

Trends in Population Health

One implication of healthcare reform is that not-for-profit “community hospitals” will demonstrate a greater mission role by keeping people [MORE]

Two Assistance Robots for Hospitals

Today’s children, who have grown up with “Transformer” toys and videos about robots, may be conditioned to accept robotic [MORE]

Cost Savings With Hospital-in-Home

A story in the Camberra (Australia) Times cites a study Deloitte conducted which showed that nurses and doctors doing [MORE]

CBO’s Long Term Budget Forecast for US Healthcare

Healthcare spending in the US now stands at 5.6% of total GDP; the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that rising to [MORE]

Nursing Economics

Accounting consultants KPMG reported last month that the actual cost of a full-time RN was 176% of the base [MORE]

Getting More Out of RTLS

Real time location systems continue to save costs in supply chain management for hospitals where ever they are installed.  [MORE]

Coupons in Consumer Healthcare

Groupon, Foursquare, Scoutmob and Living Social are among a growing number of social media services that market health care [MORE]

Mood Monitoring

This piece isn’t about monitoring patients’ health, but detecting nuances of language, reflecting buyers’ moods, could be a useful [MORE]

Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Business Forecast

Medical market watcher Kalorama Information (NYC) notes the astonishing growth of continuous blood glucose monitoring systems (i.e. insulin pump [MORE]

A Primary Care Physician’s Perspective on Medicine and Money

Dr. Alan Dappen, who spoke at last year’s Medical Automation Conference, writes a blog about primary care that is [MORE]

Telemedicine Device Market

“Consumer telehealth will be an extension of the current home-use medical device market, with manufacturers offering additional internet-based services [MORE]

Healthcare Innovations-Mainly for Poor Countries

The McKinsey Quarterly surveys healthcare payer and provider services around the world, mentioning Mexico’s “Medical Home” telemedicine service that provides [MORE]

Medicare vs. Healthcare

One issue in controlling healthcare spending under Medicare is the regional variation that exists.  The Dartmouth Institute for Health [MORE]

Personalized Medicine Forecast

Predicting market growth for personalized medicine at 11% annually, the total value of this sector could reach $452b by [MORE]

The Anatomy and Physiology of Healthcare Reform: Taking Stock in American Political Theater…

Dr. Fickenscher will provide an overview of the six major forces that are precipitating the conversation on reform [MORE]

Business Model Innovation in Healthcare

Rapid technological advances, regulatory reform, and the new science of personalized medicine are the three primary factors driving [MORE]

Healthcare Reform, as Brooking’s Sees It

The healthcare debate recalls that old saw that every man has an idea that won’t work.  But among the flurry [MORE]

Rapidly Growing Medical Automation Market

Wellesley, MA-based BCC Research is projecting that the market for medical automation technologies, products and services with rise from $13.1B [MORE]

WiFi Healthcare Devices

The technology marketing research firm, Allied Business Intelligence, Inc. (Oyster Bay, NY) projects that the global market for WiFi enabled [MORE]