A new approach to healthcare has popped up, to go along with patient-centered care. No longer is medicine doled out in a patriarchal fashion where the doctor dictates which treatments will be undertaken. Now, patients are informed which options are feasible and it is the patient who decides the course of action, and takes on [...]
With so many more people getting health insurance for the first time or a new plan, more Americans want to find the best care around. For many, this means scouting out reviews on websites that review doctors. The most common ones are www.vitalscom, www.ratemds.com, www.healthgrades.com although there are many others (such as yelp for local [...]
The United States Census Bureau projects a 36% increase in individuals over 65 in the next ten years, becoming eligible for Medicare and the largest segment of health care needs in the population. This is occurring at the same time that the supply of physicians in this country is dwindling. By 2020, the U.S. Department [...]
In a new study issued by Manhattan Research and reported in Clinical Innovation and Technology, doctors are supportive of patients using health apps and self-tracking programs to record and share health data. Director of research at Manhattan Research, James Avalone explained that Self-tracking is already a part of the care paradigm, and its prevalence [...]
Statistics show that face-to-face interaction with physicians is still the gold standard of care and that most people prefer this to depending on technology. Although 15 million texts are made and sent every minute, less than 10 percent of the American population has ever texted or emailed their physicians. GlaxoSmithKline conducted a survey along with [...]
Class-Action Lawsuit Aimed Against the Internal Revenue Service A lawsuit emerging from California alleges that the IRS improperly accessed about 60 million health records belonging to about 10 million U.S. residents,according to Healthcare IT News reports (McCann, Healthcare IT News, 3/15). See its report as follows: Details of the Allegations An unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in [...]
While everyone gathered in anxious anticipation to see the smoke signals wafting from the Sistine Chapel chimney designating a new Pope, you were better off watching it from the “sanctity” of your own home and television. Reverend Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, informed the public that the black smoke in the signal from the conclave’s [...]
Fortunately in the “eleventh hour”, President Obama and Congress consented to renewing the Doctor Fix for another year. This is an agreement to avoiding the 26.5% slash in Medicare reimbursements that is mandated by the SGR (sustainable growth rate formula). The fiscal cliff is also averted by postponing the added 2% sequestration in Medicare reimbursements [...]
How Far Along Are Health Care Organizations in Instituting Policies on Mobile Technology? Utilizing mobile technology can enhance access to patient data with doctors being able to access information from any location and in so doing, vastly improves healthcare delivery, here in the United States. But, have you ever wondered that even with this new [...]
I awoke in the early hours of the morning today with a deep and productive cough. The sputum was not a pretty shade of yellowish-green. What it told me is that I probably needed: a throat culture a doctor to listen to my lungs to distinguish URI from deep lung infection Antibiotics After constantly hearing that [...]
