Kids become prime growth market for prescription drugs
May 21, 2010
by scott hensley Children are the new frontier for sales of prescription drugs. Growth in children’s use of drugs outpaced increases for all other age groups last year, says an
everything you need to know about hand hygiene
May 18, 2010
This is an amazing resource. But what we have to figure out is how to get everyone to follow basic rules about clean hands. http://www.cdc.gov/handhygiene/index.html There is no issue that
How A Wisconsin Program Can Save Americas Health Care System – TheFiscalTimes.com
May 12, 2010
Wisconsins transparent health care costs and outcomes initiative is lowering costs via How A Wisconsin Program Can Save Americas Health Care System – TheFiscalTimes.com.
Two bills passed both the house and the senate
May 7, 2010
The legislative session is over. We have good news and even better news. Our two bills passed. S.B. 248 – AN ACT CONCERNING ADVERSE EVENTS AT HOSPITALS AND OUTPATIENT SURGICAL FACILITIES. The
Studies: When Doctors Take More Responsibility, Care Becomes Cheaper And Better – Kaiser Health News
May 5, 2010
Studies: When Doctors Take More Responsibility, Care Becomes Cheaper And Better – Kaiser Health News.
Patient medical errors – the empowered patient coalition
May 4, 2010
The Empowered Patient Coalition Patient reporting site for medical errors is now online! Dear Friends, The Empowered Patient Coalition is pleased to announce that a new survey for reporting
The business of depression is particularly lucrative.
May 3, 2010
Whereas other costly conditions, such as heart conditions or cancer, tend to strike late in life, most people experience depression when they’re much younger, usually between the ages of 15
Health care has no intrinsic value at all, none. Health does.
April 29, 2010
This is an amazingly wonderful and insightful quote. Don Berwick, for twentyone years has thoughtfully led with integrity and compassion. I can imagine now his confimation hearings at which those
Lung Cancer Screening Often Raises Costly, Scary False Alarms – Kaiser Health News
April 22, 2010
Rosemary Gibson, author of the Treatment Trap, has been in CT trying to raise our awareness of overtreatment – we simply have to pay. As we toured the state, health
Rise of the Machines – TheFiscalTimes.com
April 19, 2010
Rise of the Machines via Rise of the Machines – TheFiscalTimes.com.