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- Cornyn illustrates U.S. health policy divide
- The political fact is that millions of people in the low-middle class identify politically with those who are wealthier. This was illustrated by the failed campaign of John Edwards, whose voters actually skewed wealthy even while his message skewed toward those who were not wealthy. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Cornyn, Doctors, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- CBS video: 3D in the operating room
- To a surgeon, precision is everything. As CBS News medical correspondent Jon LaPook explains, new fiber optic technology is providing a three-dimensional, lifelike image to aid in operations that include brain surgery.
- Tags: 3D, Fiber-optics, CBS Corp., Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, News, cbs, imaging, surgery, medicine, doctors, brain, video, graphics
- Videos 2008-08-13
- Might we see a doctors' strike?
- Despite America's lack of labor protections, its doctors' presumption that they are professionals, not workers, and a dispersed industry where no one has great market share, a slow motion strike may in fact be underway here. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Strike, Doctor, Doctors, Family Doctor, E-health, Operational Accounting, Healthcare, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Medical imaging on Apple device
- At the Apple WWDC 2008, Mark Cain of Mimvista shows off the company's new iPhone software that will allow doctors to download, colorize, and share patients' CT and PET scans. The images were previously only available in black in white and only on physicians' workstations.
- Tags: Medical Imaging, Imaging, Apple Inc., Document Management, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, News, apple, developers, WWDC, Mark Cain, Mimvista, doctors, medical, CT scans, PET scans
- Videos 2008-06-10
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- End the spectre of science for sale
- End the spectre of science for saleOr Not[i]He will graduate from high school next spring, an honor student, and cost me a fortune at some elite college.[/i]Depends on what he really wants to study. There are some world-class universities that are also shockingly inexpensive, even for out-of-state students. ...
- Tags: NIH, democracy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicine
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicineWhy regulate something that is only a problem due to irresponsible parentsALL over-the-counter OTC medications have information about who can use it and how much medicine it should get. Every bottle of OTC medication has very visible warning and most specify that...
- Tags: blog author, gov, cold medicine, Obama, prescription, medication
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Heart disease is simple and depressing
- Heart disease is simple and depressingbahhh.. humbug.. if it was simple.. then it would be cured.Maybe the cause is simple.. but the solutions are not for everyone.Why do they not have a drug or nanobot that can clean your system out?I personally think nanobots will be the future of healthcare....
- Tags: nanobot, cholesterol
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Medicare bargains going away
- The real issue is the growing budget crunch, and promises made by both sides. Republicans won big subsidies in creating a partly-privatized Medicare covering prescription drugs. Doctors once promised to cut their reimbursements but now resist that. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Medicare, Prescription Drug, Wall Street Journal Analysis, Notices, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Intel at Oracle OpenWorld: It's about time - and the cloud.
- The phrase "Time is Money" is likely being muttered throughout Wall Street and Capitol Hill this week as Congress is being urged to quickly pass $700 billion legislation for an economy-saving financial bailout. Here at San Francisco's Moscone Center, Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini used the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Intel Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Networking, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery (exe)
- Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery is much more then undelete, file recovery software. Its applicability begins when other software fails to recover or even is not able to display data. This Windows data recovery software can recover data from any logical cause for data loss on Windows; this data recovery...
- Tags: Data Recovery, Disk, Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- How much health care spending is discretionary?
- How much health care spending is discretionary?Depends on if you are talking long or short termTake the annual exam that women at risk for breast cancer need to have. You could call it a luxury of "most" women don't turn up positive in a single year, but long term...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, PSA
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- How much health care spending is discretionary?
- Real, meaningful health reform, whether done on the terms of doctors, liberals, insurers or conservatives, has this fundamental question at its heart. Whether by cutting costs or increasing coverage, make some health coverage non-discretionary. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, American System, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Caribbean medical schools and the primary care shortage
- Caribbean medical schools and the primary care shortageIs a Carribean-trained MD good enough?He is if he passes the boards and does the same internship and residency as anyone else (except I'd waive the internship and residency if the applicant has actively practiced medicine abroad for at least 5 years). ...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Caribbean medical school, medical school, primary care shortage, care shortage, residency training
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Caribbean medical schools and the primary care shortage
- Remember Grenada? (Picture from the eightiesclub.) The reason given to invade this tiny Caribbean nation, in 1983, was to save some Americans attending a Caribbean medical school because their grades were too low for U.S. places. Now the question is, is an invasion of graduates...
- Tags: Shortage, Doctor, E-health, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- You do not want a new drug
- You do not want a new drugZyprexa zenith to zonkedZyprexa has generated a lot of bad press for Eli Lilly and they still have unresolved Zyprexa settlement claims.Eli Lilly is 'reaping the whirlwind' for aggressive marketing of Zyprexa that has caused suffering and deaths. Zyprexa is being avoided by doctors...
- Tags: Zyprexa
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Another kind of health care debate
- If things were different we might be having a different kind of health care debate. The conservative position might be allowing any private health care at all. The liberal worry might be finding enough doctors. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Technology Issue, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Everything you want to know about the Zune 3.0 release and new hardware
- Everything you want to know about the Zune 3.0 release and new hardwareDon't have to. MS makes it. Just count the number of blogs for this, vsthe Apple iPod announcement. Nobody cares . . . . NOBODY.What everybody needs to know: this will be BOOOORRRRING.NT.Just 3 paragraphs?That's all I need...
- Tags: Blogging, Digital media, Digital music, Zune 3.0 release, Zune 3.0, Microsoft Zune, new hardware, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Curing the primary care shortage
- Curing the primary care shortageBelling the catNow the trick is to persuade insurance companies to do that. Possibly you have some economic arguments you could make.Of course, they could also act to artificially inflate the supply by offering medical school scholarships to people who commit to general practice for...
- Tags: Insurance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, primary care shortage, care shortage, insurance company, compensation
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- How pot may win the war against super-bacteria
- How pot may win the war against super-bacteriaWell, this would be great news for...Lays potato chips!This explains alot!!I think we finally see why Mr. Blankenhorn's writing has been of such "quality"...seems to have an affinity towards the poor, oppressed illegal users of "medical marijuana". Oh...maybe he's got a headache...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Pot
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- What the fight against cancer really needs
- What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...
- Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
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