Cost of Medical Errors: $17 billion
Its has been well established that medical errors are a serious problem in modern health care. One study found that medical errors kill between 50k and 100k annually and another…
Bill McGuire on Wireless Health and Technology
The following article was originally posted in mobihealthnews by Brian Dolan. McGuire: The Land Grab is Misguided The former chairman and CEO of United Health Group Dr. Bill McGuire recently…
Painless Injections Make Child Vaccine Delivery Easy
AtriCure (NASDAQ:ATRC) founder, Michael Hooven‘s next project could change the way children are injected with vaccines. Hooven politely declined to provide much detail on Cincinnati-based Enable Injections, saying that the…
Challenges of Healthcare of Gays & Lesbians under Reform
Euphemistically, the population of gay and lesbian adults in this country has always been labeled “the ten percent”, owing to the presumptive political implications that have become significantly mainstream since…
Third of Home Care Staff Make Medication Errors – What You Can Do
A Northwestern University study has shown that more than one-third of paid home care staff had difficulty reading and understanding health-related information and directions. Sixty percent made errors when sorting…
Medicaid to Fund ‘Stay-Healthy’ Incentive Programs
In recent years, scientists have shown that financial incentives can drive short-term behavioral changes that are associated with improved health; things like losing weight and quitting cigarettes, for example. The…
Reining in Avoidable Readmissions
I've been having the readmissions pull-out from H&HN Magazine on my desk for a few weeks. The data and information includes some starting points for improving your hospital re-admission rates…
Poor Need More Financial Services than Rich
Why would that be the case? The answer is risk. Poor people (especially in developing countries) have a larger share of their assets at risk due to theft, a family…
Bombing People Costs Money
A Tomahawk Missile cost $569,000 in FY99, so if my calculations are correct, they cost a little over $736,000 today assuming they are the same make and model. The United…
Nanomedicine Attacks Bacteria Where Antibiotics Cannot
IBM and a research group in Singapore have engineered a new kind of synthetic, biodegradable nano particle that could be used to attack bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics.…
