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
Electronic pharmacies get national pushSad!Paper Scrips should be in the Smithsonian. MD's should be required to transmit scrips to your pharmacy over a secure link. And with video conferencing coming to a PC near you, who needs a kiosk? BTW consider this a publish of a patentable...
TV ad awareness has grown to 89% of prescription drug users, up from 69% in 2003 study. During the same period, awareness of prescription drug ads declined for every other medium, with the exception of the Internet, which rose to 8% in 2004 from only 2% in 2003. Awareness of...
TV ad awareness has grown to 89% of prescription drug users, up from 69% in 2003 study. During the same period, awareness of prescription drug ads declined for every other medium, with the exception of the Internet, which rose to 8% in 2004 from only 2% in 2003. Awareness of...
Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...
Unfortunately the "industry" will manipulate the data to their advantage.Universities cannot force "honest" disclosure of true rates like the government can. I can see another indictment and or law suite for manipulation in a year or two.The colleges work for the governmentIt's semi-privatized, which conservatives will like, but it's...
You've got some good points, but...from where I'm sitting the problem is a whole lot bigger than you make it out to be.Thanks for bringing this topic up.Yes, there is a great deal of truth that "drugs-by-mail" operations supported by health insurance plans do hit the smaller pharmacies. However...
Meaningful reformOne. Allow insurance companies to offer any kind of plan they want ranging from catastrophic to "we'll pay for pimples," and price them accordingly. Eliminate the requirement that insurance companies have to cover pre-existing conditions without being able to charge higher rates.Two. Lower the costs of being in the...
Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...
iFacts: Drug Interaction Factspowered by Skyscape Authors: David S. Tatro, PharmDPublisher: Facts and Comparisons iFacts is the handheld version of Drug Interaction Facts, a best selling drug interaction analyzer covering thousands of brand and generic drugs. iFacts enables the practitioner to refer to accurate and reliable information regarding drug interactions...
Outlines in Clinical Medicinepowered by Skyscape Authors: Michael Kauffman, MD, PhDPublisher: OutlineMed, Inc. Outlines in Clinical Medicine is the most comprehensive, up-to-date medical reference title available for handheld computers. OCM covers internal medicine and was created with the intention of incorporating large amounts of rapidly changing medical information into a...
There’s little question that just about every profit-making company out there would like to know exactly what you’re doing on the Web, all the time. And that there’s a clear profitable market to be had in data that captures your “behavior†on the Internet. ...
There may not be a big enough return on tweeting yet to report it to your CFO. But it won’t be long before there’s a clear, return on tweeting to report it to your doctor. Let’s say your daughter is suffering from autism, as is Sophie Nelson,...
How or why is your information important? Information in a business setting might include e-mails that need to be retained and archived for regulatory purposes. Or it might be the collaborative documents that employees have been working on for a product launch. At EMC World in Orlando...
Should drug companies know what the doctor prescribedI'll go with the docs on this oneFirst look at the potential use of the data. You really need to know the patient's age, sex and race as well as their medical condition. Then throw in the other medications that the...
One of the big controversies heading for the Supremes Court's docket soon will probably be the case of IMS Health vs. Ayotte. It's an interesting test case on what data can do for medicine, asking whether we want it done or not. At issue...
ActiveHealth shows how all this PHR stuff should workThat's a nice startYears ago I developed systems for a chain of department stores. A wonderful job because each project started with a clean sheet of paper. That allow me to "catch" potentially problems. If a markup percentage was...
The health ID piranhas attackCould make for some tragic problemsIf, for example, the unique ID defaults to the SSN, and someone steals my ID to get a job or some other low level activity, then I suppose their health records and my health records would get mixed up together.So if...
My comparative effectiveness storyWhat is it about timed release?I needed to switch from a standard drug to the timed release version. I was paying out of pocket at the time. I thought, hey just like Contact did in the Sixties. It went from about $40 to $160....
Health care is rationed and people dieWrong approachThe health care provisions in the current "stimulus" package are a prescription for the elimination of the aged and no amount of "data"worship can change that fact. What's next "Soylent Green"?Government Run Health Care == VA HospitalsWant to see how government mandated...
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