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The Challenge of the e-Patient
Conclusions from e_Patients: How they can help us heal healthcare written by Tom Ferguson, MD and the e-Patient Scholars Working Group ( Supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quality Health...
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China Opens Medical Reform Plan to Public Debate
Xinhua reports today that China’s long-awaited health care reform plan was released for public debate and promises to cover all urban and rural residents by 2020. Medical reform has been deliberated by...
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ICD-10s: Sometimes “Pay-Me-Later” is a Better Strategy
From Healthcare IT News on ICD-10 Codes: The American Health Information Management Association leadership wants to be clear: Even though it will cost millions of dollars and the process is likely to...
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New China Health Reform Plan “Impenetrable”
Reports on Chinese citizen reactions to the new health reform plan released for public debate are now out: CCTV newsman Bai Yansong said in an TV interview that apart from the complaints people had...
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New Study: Costs of Moving to ICD-10 Diagnostic Codes for Providers
Conclusions from a new study on the transition to ICD-10 diagnostic codes: If ICD‐10‐CM were to be mandated as the code set to replace ICD‐9‐CM, it would have a significant effect on both the business...
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Starbucks Health Care?
Image via Wikipedia The thought came to me this morning as I was hitting the local Starbucks: Why couldn’t local retail health care be this easy and this prolific? The inventory of products is limited...
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PatientsLikeMe: A New Disease Management Tool?
Ben Heywood, co-founder and President of PatientsLikeMe, recently participated in live chat session (see transcript) hosted by the World Health Care Congress. I was particularly interested in his...
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President-Elect Obama: A New Day is Upon Us
What an amazing evening with the triumph of Hawaii’s own Barack Obama. As readers who have followed this blog know, we have been a strong Obama supporter from the beginning of his candidacy. The...
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Britain’s Mobile Phone “Nurses”
In my continuing posts on mobile phones in health care comes news from the Telegraph: People suffering from asthma, diabetes and high blood pressure simply enter details of their condition and...
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Another Use for Mobile Phones in Health Care: Stopping Bullets
From WDSU.com A stray bullet hit a man in his chest while he was mowing his lawn Saturday, but he escaped injury because the bullet slammed into a cell phone in his pocket. . . (The man) said he didn’t...
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