Parody on Bush's veto position...View the link below to see an actual discussion about those who are one step away from disaster...BD ...
Bush calls children's health insurance bill a 'trick'
Trick or Treat on the SCHIP bill? BD Halloween's an appropriate day to talk about it because there's a bill moving through Congre...
FDA Approves Allergan Combo Eye Drop for Glaucoma
NEW YORK (Reuters) Oct 31 - Allergan Inc on Wednesday said U.S. regulators approved its combination glaucoma drug Combigan. The company sai...
Health Insurers Target Early Retirees
After the "cherry picking", how do you market the left overs? The articles says that the over 50 group might be loyal, but also e...
Doctors sue Memorial Hermann over 'bully tactics' - HOUSTON
The hospital was only open for 2 years...BD Basically what Memorial Hermann did is they went to insurance companies like Aetna and United ...
Aerial surveillance gets computer boost - Sahara Tablet PC
Follow up on Initial post : Portable Tablets Help MSP Secure Homeland I spoke with Gail at Tablet Kiosk to confirm that this is the Sahara...
Hands-On Nabaztag 2 Wi-Fi Rabbit to the Office..
Nice addition to the office...it will read email to you among other fun things...nice perhaps for a pediatrician or anyone who likes somethi...
Chemicals Flow Unchecked From China to US Drug Market
Do you know where all the ingredients come from with the medication you are currently taking? How many sell ingredients to our US pharma ma...
Lizard spit and bongs - Medication Origins and Future
What is the future on diabetes treatment medications - article explores the recent number of medications, origins, and the potential future....
GP pay £110,000 after a 10% rise
In contrast to what is happening to primary care physicians here in the US , pay is on the rise for GP physicians in the UK...but the patien...
Vanishing Breed: What Happened to the Family Doctor?
Is this happening to a practice near you? He is closing as the system is not working. $60,000.00 a year is not much income for all the tim...
Doctor? Or Druggist?
More physicians are beginning to provide prescriptions right from the office...growing trend and certain a big convenience for patients...an...
Portable Tablets Help MSP Secure Homeland
Great article on using a tablet pc, and I agree here, this looks like the Sahara i440D from Tablet Kiosk ...it sure is much easier to work w...
Snoring Men Transform Into Sleeping Beauties After Surgery
According to the article, this is a fairly simple procedure to have done with a plastic surgeon...BD Millions of men who suffer from sleep ...
Scripps Research Team Blocks Bacterial Communication System To Prevent Deadly Staph Infections
In hopes of combating the growing scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, in particular drug-resistant staph bacteria, a team of scientis...
1 in 8 veterans lacks health insurance
Sometimes a group we may not think about in the ranks of the uninsured..BD WASHINGTON -- About one of every eight veterans under the age o...
Many older doctors plan to phase out their practice
These are some pretty scary numbers in the survey...Marcus Welby no longer exists..and with all the additional pressures and reductions of i...
Is U.S. stuck in Internet's slow lane
Might be part of the reason that Health IT is dragging as well....BD NEW YORK - The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on t...
Companies Tap RSS to Tame Info Overload
This site makes use every day of RSS Feeds....my choice is Attensa which is free and we have a link on the site. The NHS in the UK is even ...
German hospital saves baby with pioneering surgery in womb
Nice story...and the baby was born healthy...BD BERLIN (AFP) A German hospital is celebrating a world first after carrying out life-savin...
UCI Medical Center has fired 13 nurses
Not real good news with the current shortage of nurses...entering too much information? From the information in this article, it sounds lik...
More young adults on cholesterol drugs
Blood pressure and cholesterol drugs both on the rise for young adults.....but losing weight can also be a big help too...perhaps a more nat...
TV raises blood pressure in obese kids: study
I am guessing this relates to more hours of inactivity...BD They found obese children who watched four or more hours of TV a day were thr...
Hospital to Screen for Staph Germ
Good step and certainly can't hurt...BD CHICAGO (AP) Loyola University Medical Center on Monday announced plans to start testing all i...
Health costs squeeze workers
Open enrollment - employees finding the choice a lot different this year..higher deductibles..change in types of plans with employers watchi...
US makes new push on e-health records
Some physicians could stand to make some extra income on the pilot program...directed at Medicare patients..but the administration is also c...
Doctors test hot sauce for pain relief
Hot sauce may be the next pain killer...purified of course. Don't try this at home the article states next time you need some relief fo...
Prostate Cancer Effectively Cured In Young Men By Implanting Radiation Seeds
Alternative to surgery if used before the age of 60...BD Radiation seed implants (brachytherapy) are just as effective at curing prostate ...
Email sent to your Cell phone, just a regular cell phone will do
Neat service that will enable email to your normal cell phone, you do not need a Blackberry or Windows Mobile device to get your email...req...
SEC steps into WellCare probe - HMO Medicaid Provider
This could be serious...whenever the Security and Exchange Commission sets foot inside, there's usually some type of alleged substantiat...
New wave of job cuts hits health care
Including pharmaceutical industry...BD NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lack of significant new drugs and products, declining sales of lucrative fla...
Health care crisis
Major finding...people just don't go to the doctor...and small employers continue to look for a way out..but our leadership just tells u...
Humana Net Rises 90% - Medicare business
Income making the most from the Medicare business....and projecting earnings in 2008 to be around 5.30 to 5.50 per share..up from the averag...
Record numbers go abroad for health - UK
Superbugs and lack of confidence in the NHS...India appearing to be the most popular choice..nurses all bogged down with administrative func...
Harmony and Synergy Merge to Form Leading On-Demand Health and Human Services Solutions Company
RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - October 29, 2007) - Harmony Information Systems, Inc. (Harmony), the industry leading provider of software solutio...
Microsoft buying Global Care Solutions
International hospital software and systems management....BD Microsoft Corp. said Monday it is buying software, intellectual property and...
Medical-bill errors becoming more common
The direct result of the more complicated coding systems implemented for payment...hospitals have done itemized billing for a long time and ...
Safeway Offers Flu Vaccines In Stores, USA
Flu Shots are everywhere this year...even the grocery stores have joined in...BD Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) will offer flu vaccines at all st...
Michigan House Passes Bill To Limit Insurance Rate Increases
This appears to be the first state action to put a limit on how high premiums can go...almost like regulating a utility, which is pretty clo...
CMS Awards Two Contracts To Process And Pay Medicare Part A And Part B Claims In 7 States And D.C., USA
More new contracts awarded from CMS for processing claims..this one includes California..will be the single point of contact once things are...
Robot to lift and carry people
Could this be the next robot we see working at hospitals? He could use an appearance change though, scrub green is not too appealing for lo...
Intel Opens Clean Room manufacturing for 45 nm chips...cleaner than an operating room...
How clean is clean? The processor clean room is 100 times cleaner than the average operating room but chips don't have to worry about b...
The RP-7 Robotic System - Dr. Chung discussion
More on the use of medical robots...the video from QualComm is also very good with the physician doing an in-room demo on the spot using wir...
Its Devices Bring Relief To Patients - ON-Q
The device can also deliver anti bacterial agents...perhaps helpful with the MRSA battle at surgical sites.....BD Two things you don'...
New Incisionless Surgery Offers Hope to Heartburn Sufferers - GERD
Many have GERD and if surgery would be deemed necessary, this sure looks to be a great way to to go...anytime you have less cutting and tiss...
The Intensivist...hospital technology/physician occupation
This way the doctor can be there virtually...and it is working....they are also able to get the physical staff there immediately as well...t...
Hospital makes Chapter 11 filing - Los Angeles.
This hospital was also cited having financial difficulties in a post a couple weeks ago....BD Brotman Medical Center in Culver City has fil...
The failed promise of prompt pay ...how long does it really take to get paid..and what is a clean claim?
Having large monopolies in the health care business certainly does not help issues..if everything meets current criteria without any additio...
Travel reservations: Push for offshore care ..
Employers and health plans are being courted...with the promise of huge savings over the same procedures in the US...BD The companies aren...
FDA warns about 'stay awake drug' Provigil
Provigil which is made by drug manufacturer Cephalon, is used to treat people suffering from narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea and sto...
Additional References and Music Enhancements for the Blog
Over the weekend some new changes were added to the blog and hopefully useful and beneficial to all readers. Now it is easier to locate pas...
Small hospital in Clay Center, Kan., aims for a free MRI machine
The contest continues....so far 37 hospitals have submitted entries...BD Thats what Clay County Medical Center, about three hours west of K...
Stones Legend Joins 15 000 On Hospitals March - UK
And other celebrities were present as well.....BD Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards joined thousands of protesters for a rally and march...
DoD, VA still working on sharing e-health records
The government is working on this internally to have interoperable records between agencies...BD October 24, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- The...
Consultant hired to make sense of IT Soup
I would like this job...BD What's the difference between an EMR, an EHR and a PHR? Why is an HIE not a RHIO? Does anyone really care? W...
Are Hospitalists Killing Primary Care?
Good article and addresses many issues, including how to incorporate both the roles of the PCP and hospitalists together for better health c...
Change the Medicare rules that effectively deny patients needed rehab time
I agree this should be addressed somewhere along the line..my mother a few years ago was a perfect example as she had 2 knee surgeries, befo...
DARPA's robotic arm and driverless vehicles...
Absolutely a must watch....if you are not familiar with DARPA, this is the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency...working under the Depa...
FEMA apologizes for news conference on fires - employees posed as reporters....
I think it would have been better to perhaps cancel and re-schedule...but there are a lot of good efforts with private industry jumping in t...
AT&T Offers Free Wi-Fi Access in Southern California - Fire relief
Another nice helping hand and welcomed by all....BD To help California residents affected by the fires stretching across Southern Californ...
AMA To Congress: Health Insurance Mergers Harm Patients, Physicians
Good points made here with the consolidation of carriers...as there appear to be fewer to choose from on the horizon in view of all the rece...
Health officials insist IS 211 students are safe
Thus far we have not heard much about his prior medical care...hope more will surface soon...and I think testing in hospitals at this point ...
GlaxoSmithKline Aids California Fire Relief Efforts
Nice contribution and I'm sure appreciated by all...BD GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) shares the nation's concern for residents and ...
SiCKO Health Care Card...
Michael Moore is back with his own health card..."don't get sick without it"....one of the readers of the blog brought this to...