Bad health care omens
This is disturbing: Mike Lux, a veteran of the Clinton health care wars, pointed out today that Obama is using as a surrogate on health care Bush Dog Democrat Jim Cooper. Cooper spent a good amount of time in 1993-1994 working to ...
The Health Care Crisis and Why it was Inevitable
Since 1970, the health care industry has undergone a revolutionary change. Before that time people were overwhelmingly (about 70%) in traditional indemnity plans where patients pay a certain percentage of health care costs. ...
Health Care Interoperability Dilemma
This is something I have been dealing with in the health care arena for a long time when developing internal applications, or integrating new proprietary systems. McComb discusses five approaches to system integration which include; ...
Engineering Grand Challenges - Advancing health informatics
First of all, health informatics probably means different things to different people. In my mind, health informatics is only really useful if it not only benefits the individual, but also our overall understanding of medicine. ...
Huge Study Confirms Uninsured Lag in Cancer Diagnosis
The American Cancer Society study announced Monday involved 3.5 million patients with 12 of the most common types of cancer.
Wading through the Web: Improving online health information
According to comScore, the traffic to health information sites increased last year, reaching 55.3 million US visitors in the first quarter of 2007 alone. Doctors and others have long worried, however, that patients may consume unhelpful ...
Health and Wellness: Bipolar Disorder Is A Serious Illness, Not a ...
The media have Britney in the bipolar spotlight. But what's it really like to live with this disorder? One man describes his first-hand experience.
Monitoring trends in socioeconomic health inequalities: it matters ...
Background: Odds ratio (OR), a relative measure for health inequality, has frequently been used in prior studies for presenting inequality trends in health and health behaviors. Since OR is not a good approximation of prevalence ratio ...
Protecting Heart Health
There are a number of simple ways women can reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Health Care Economics
Examine the supply and demand for health care, including the impacts of health insurance. Efficiency in the health care market will be analyzed, including physician behavior, hospital performance and new modes of health care delivery. ...