
It has been a long time coming, but the issue of how the US Medicare and Medicaid system sets the fees it pays doctors, and hence sets the incentives on doctors that drive their health care decisions,…
It has been a long time coming, but the issue of how the US Medicare and Medicaid system sets the fees it pays doctors, and hence sets the incentives on doctors that drive their health care decisions,…
A panel of experts from the American Medical Informatics Association have written a paper "Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of electronic health record systems: …
A long time ago in the US, most people got care from physicians who were self-employed, or part of physician partnerships. If they had to be hospitalized, it was at hospitals that were community or a…
Any new technology introduced into a complex system, especially when introduced recklessly, has the potential to produce unexpected consequences, and the problems introduced can be worse than the prob…
Here's a politician who certainly seems concerned with the privacy and confidentiality and flawed-analysis downsides of electronic health records - Senator Stephen H. Martin of Virginia:SB 1275 Medic…
At least here in these United States, our health care corporatism is bipartisan. Here we present a sorry story of how a company that should have been shamed by dishonest behavior that likely harmed p…