From the category archives:

Payers

Can We Lower Health Costs Through Prevention? Not so Fast

by francine 06.02.2011

Everyone in health IT is looking at the proliferation of mobile devices and wireless communications capacity and they are salivating. Now, they say, we are finally going to be able to monitor the vital signs, activity levels, food intake, lifestyle habits of patients and use all this information for prevention. Remote monitoring will bring about [...]

1 comment Read the rest

Can Berwick Save Medicare Before Congress Throws Him Out?

by francine 05.22.2011

I had the good fortune to flip the radio dial to CSPAN this morning and hear Dr. Donald Berwick talk about his job as director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Berwick probably won’t be confirmed by a Republican Congress, but he is working day by day, and seems to be enjoying [...]

0 comments Read the rest

Medicine That Talks to Your Phone

by francine 01.31.2011

My friend Robert Scoble just came back from Davos and spoke to Andrew Thompson of Proteus Biomedical, a company that keeps track of your medications and sends information about your health condition to your phone. If you are a provider, or an insurer, please adopt this as soon as it gets FDA-approved (going through the [...]

0 comments Read the rest

Mark Twain’s Healthy Cynicism About Health Care

by francine 01.17.2011

Image via Wikipedia I have been listening to the latest edition of “The Autobiography of Mark Twain,” and I’ve decided Twain has much to tell us. Especially about health care. We think we have come so far, and yet we keep coming up against the limits of medical science and the failure of the health care [...]

1 comment Read the rest

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →