Superbowl week. My team’s not in it, but I still follow it pretty close because I just like football. Something interesting I ran across is the number of men on both the Packers and the Steelers that weigh over 300 Read More
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as the legislative body’s new Republican majority promised. Every single Republican voted in favor of the bill, which followed hours of debate. The final Read More
Interesting article I read this past week on Medscape from WebMD titled “’Some Worms Are Best Left in the Can’ — Should You Hide Medical Errors?” They posed four questions in Medscape’s ethics survey related to this topic.
Recent reports have come out that state “even though Congress approved a zero percent update for Medicare physician fees in 2011, the CMS calculation for the 2011 conversion factor represents a 7.8554 percent cut.” Those reports are somewhat misleading if Read More
Asking patients about specific aspects of their care experience rather than their overall level of satisfaction is a more accurate way to compare the quality of medical practices and individual physicians, according to a study published recently in the BMJ.
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OK, so Republicans are taking charge of the House of Representatives. The future of Obama’s healthcare reform is at stake. So what’s going to happen next? Will the whole law be repealed? What about the courts, what position are they going Read More
As we have discussed in earlier blogs, people have been looking at ways to make money with Twitter; mostly using it as a “real-time” advertising medium. For example; Kogi Korean taco truck, L.A.’s culinary obsession. They send Tweets to let Read More
PCWorld’s article from April 17th discusses the slow down of Twitter’s growth. I am not certain the “slow down” of growth equates to Twitter going away. After all, its popularity sky-rocketed over the last year or two; theoretically, something can Read More
Real healthcare reform could take place.