POSTS TAGGED AS Healthcare Reform

Healthcare: What Needs Fixing, Patient Insights

The patient forgot to mention that her father died of an aneurism; the print on her medication instructions was [MORE]

UK Healthcare Reform

Americans are used to hearing politicians say how faulty healthcare delivery is in the UK under its National Health [MORE]

Trending Toward Concierge Care

In a way, concierge care is what family practice medicine used to be-i.e. doctors who knew their patients for [MORE]

Surviving Cancer, Facing Bankruptcy

Not long ago, opponents of healthcare reform asserted that the US had the best healthcare system in the world [MORE]

Virtual Medical Visits

In a survey of 1,000 adults, a NYC-based healthcare marketing company found that 78% of those it contacted would [MORE]

USDA Funding Rural Telemedicine Projects

The USDA is offering $34.7m in grants for 45 telemedicine projects and 61 for distance learning.  It appears that [MORE]

Health Industry Issues in 2011

In this downloadable report, PriceWaterhouse Coopers outlines what its Health Research Institute thinks will be the major healthcare economic [MORE]

CMS Innovation Center

Tagline reported earlier this year about CMS’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation grant program, but here is a [MORE]

Longitudinal EMR with Wireless Entry

IBM and Peking University People’s Hospital are carrying out a pilot project for a longitudinal electronic medical record that [MORE]

CMS “Decision Support System” on Imaging

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid hope to enlist up to 3,000 private practice physicians to study how they [MORE]

Will Medicare Implode?

Even before the 2010 healthcare reform law, physicians were opting out of Medicare-i.e. refusing to take any new patients [MORE]

4,525 Healthcare Lobbyists for 535 Members of Congress

For the battle over healthcare reform, some 1,750 companies and organizations deployed 4,525 lobbyists to argue their points before Members [MORE]

MUSING - Automation as a Bridge

Whether or not healthcare insurance reform proceeds in Congress, true healthcare reform is proceeding.  Its sources are molecular [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]

National Telemedicine Initiatives

In a broad review of telemedicine applications, researchers Rashid Bashshur (Univ. of Michigan) and Gary Shannon (Univ. of Kentucky) have [MORE]

DOD/VA Electronic Health Record

On April 9, the Obama administration announced its plan for linking Defense Department and Veterans’ Affairs medical records into one [MORE]

Health Insurance Premiums by 2016

The US Public Interest Research Group has predicted that costs for employer sponsored family health insurance will increase from $11,381 [MORE]