Cool Healthcare Technology: Phreesia
Physicians: Healthcare Technology for Your OfficePhreesia is certainly not new on the healthcare scene… but the intent of this Healthcare Tech section is not necessarily to highlight the latest…
InSite Vision Is Developing Treatment For Common Eye Disease Blepharitis, For Which There Is Currently No Approved Treatment
InSite Vision Inc. (OTCBB:INSV) has reached an agreement with the U.S. InSite Vision Inc. (OTCBB:INSV) has reached an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a Special…
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Medical Device Makers Turn to Europe Over Concerns with FDA Process. Where your taxes go: Gardening Tips From Uncle Sam Medical Device Makers Turn to Europe Over Concerns with FDA…
Survey Shows Future of Cloud Computing in Healthcare Organizations
Guess I’m feeling a little “inspired” by the cloudy day outside today on the cusp of a Memorial Day weekend. Guess I’m feeling a little “inspired” by the cloudy day…
Top Quotes of the Week
“The high winds caused many medical records to be scattered throughout Joplin and across the Ozarks. St. John’s (Regional Medical Center)…is asking anyone who has found medical records…to hold these…
Why Do Hospitals Slow Down on Weekends?
Hospitals start most weeks with a low occupancy but quickly get to gridlock by early to mid-week, driven by elective scheduled admissions. This bunching of scheduled admissions has now been…
A Silver Lining in GOP Attempts to Defund PPACA implementation
The Hill (CBO: Defunding healthcare law could end drug benefits) has an interesting piece suggesting that if Republicans are successful in blocking funding to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable…
How to Lower Cancer Care’s Costs
A year-and-a-half ago, Howard Brody of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston wrote an opinion article in the New England Journal of Medicine calling on every medical specialty…
Device Separates Stem Cells During Surgery for PAD Treatment
This is happening in Arizona and also back in August of 2010 I wrote about the same or similar process happening here in Los Angeles and the link below has…
Most Common Male Sexual Dysfunction – Promising Results for Treatment
Premature ejaculation is a distressing male sexual dysfunction that is more common than erectile dysfunction (ED) and has a major impact on the quality of life for men and their…