No Doctors for the Elderly
report, published this month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, warns…
Supreme Court: Can State Governments Dictate How Publicly Available Information Can Be Used?
At issue: Doctors prescribing records: The data has become more available because…
Is Price Competition the Key to Higher Quality?
In our third-party-payer health insurance system the price for care is typically…
Health Care Buzz Today
ScrubdIn Announces Winners of 2011 Best Medical Apps Contest. Best medical app…
An Alternative to Malpractice
About three decades ago, University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein proposed…
Why do People in High Deductible Plans Seek Less Preventive Care?
A notable finding from a RAND study How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans…
Scribes Continue to Grow in Hospitals
Nobody thought that scribes were going to a permanent solution but it…
Can a $3 Million Prize Solve a $2.5 Billion Dollar Problem?
If a health plan could predict which patients will incur the most…
Report: Branded Drug Use Sharply Down, Generics Way Up
A healthcare informatics company issues a report today that I really do…
Walmart Buys Social Media Company Kosmix
Ok let me get the humor out of the way here first,…