California hospitals have been reporting adverse events to the state Department of Public Health since last July, and the numbers are showing that about 100 patients per month are being harmed, sometimes fatally. The University of California - San Diego Medical Center director says that seeing these numbers has encouraged improvements. A California lawmaker says [...]
The executive branch (Dept. of Health and Human Services) stepped in yesterday to stop a 10.6% cut in Medicare reimbursement to physicians from going through because Congress left for a recess before finishing deliberations on a bill. DHS is freezing current reimbursement levels for up to 10 days. After that, physicians and other health care [...]
Today the B5media Business Channel is writing about our business epiphany - what one moment influenced our career or business. Well, I guess for me it depends which career we are talking about. If we’re talking about my former teaching career, well there was no ONE moment. I grew up knowing that I wanted to [...]
With a population of 1.3 billion people and purchasing power that grows by the minute, China is an attractive market for almost any company inside or outside of the health care sphere. Today, Aetna announced that it is establishing an office in Shanghai and taking the first steps to apply for a license to sell [...]
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What do doctors really think about their patients and the care that they provide? You can get an idea from a Reader’s Digest article fun-read titled, “41 Secrets Your Doctor Would Never Share.” Twenty-four doctors shares their thoughts on impatience, pills, bills, their sensitive side, and a few [...]
I was slightly disappointed to see the news that RFID chips may potentially be harmful to patients with pacemakers and other medical devices. RFID (radio frequency identification) chips/”tags” can be embedded into anything from expensive medications to IV infusion pumps to aid in preventing counterfeiting of drugs or supplies or just to help the hospital [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone you could call to help walk you through your health care? Wouldn’t it be great if you had a go-to person to help you understand your bills and insurance, or to help you find a provider and get an appointment fairly quickly for you?
Well you can, but it’s [...]
The New York Times reports that few doctors have actually made the step to adopt electronic records (aka EMRs or EHRs, with M and H standing for “medical” or “health,” respectively). When almost every sector has adopted technology, what’s standing in the way of doctors doing the same? I think it boils down to a [...]
Canada Investing Over $1 billion in Research and Development, and Hopes to Invest More
Canada’s biopharmaceutical sector has made great strides in research and development, and has high hopes for even more progress.
Cymbalta Now Approved for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia
Cymbalta, a serotonin- norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor originally approved to treat depression and anxiety, has now been approved [...]
Fisherman Memorial - Gloucester, MA
The public high school in the small fishing town of Gloucester, MA is trying to figure out why 17 of its students are pregnant, a pregnancy rate 4 times that of the previous school year. Rumors have been flying, and the mayor of Gloucester seems to agree, that a pact was [...]
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