Health care

Physicians Will Use Other Agents for Parkinson’s Disease to Delay the Need for Levodopa – Decision Resources

ALTHOUGH LEVODOPA REMAINS THE MAINSTAY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE TREATMENT, PHYSICIANS WILL INCREASINGLY USE OTHER AGENTS TO DELAY THE NEED FOR LEVODOPA About Half of Surveyed Neurologists Say They Will Increasingly Delay Their Use of Levodopa-Carbidopa in the Next Two Years, According to a New Report from Decision Resources May 12, 2010 – Waltham, Mass.—Decision Resources, [...]

Tougher Medical Device Rules On The Way

SAN FRANCISCO — Regulators will strengthen their oversight of medical devices used at home as part of an initiative to improve safety, according to information posted yesterday on the Food and Drug Administration’s website. Discuss COMMENTS (0) Coming are guidelines for manufacturers, training programs for patients and family members, and labeling and testing standards for [...]

GE Healthcare To Enable Quality Reporting Across Health Information Exchanges

GE’s eHealth Information Exchange is a standards-based HIE infrastructure that integrates clinical data from across disparate systems and manages the wide variety of clinical records, document types and terminologies pervasive in today’s healthcare system. Upon this standards-based HIE foundation, GE plans to offer quality reporting (on de-identified data) as the part of a series of [...]

Philips opens remote support center

For patient care in North American, South American and Latin American markets, Philips has opened the doors to its healthcare Customer Care Solutions Center in Alpharetta, Georgia offering technology and local expertise to remotely support hospitals in keeping their equipment running. The Philips Customer Care Solutions Center features a network that enables data downloads and [...]

Healthcare Freakonomics

For some strange reason the healthcare sector manages to escape the sort of forensic analysis others are subjected to. There’s this strange coalition of patient confidentiality, ethics, professional integrity and public policy. These combine to create this “opaque soup” of information which nobody understands and even fewer believe. In the UK we get bombarded by [...]

What Is Clinical Informatics

Informatics is becoming a popular word in health care. In the past, limitations on data sharing have restricted the use of aggregated data in better understanding ways we can improve patient safety, at lower cost. Ethical considerations such as patient confidentiality, and technical constraints such as data storage and analysis software, have worked against the [...]

Remote Care for ICUs – it’s happening already

By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Published: January 7, 2010 For over a decade now, health care experts have been promoting telemedicine, or the use of satellite technology, video conferencing and data transfer through phones and the Internet, to connect doctors to patients in far-flung locales. But are doctors ready for this form of technology? Telemedicine [...]

eHealth technology improves patient safety

By facilitating access to complete patient data across multiple locations and systems, our eHealth solutions provide a step further towards evidence based medicine, which will allow for enhanced quality of care, improved productivity and a reduction of costs and medical errors,” said Bernard Algayres, General Manager eHealth for Europe, Middle East and Africa at GE [...]

Health Spending More than 16% of GDP

From the CMS Office of the Actuary: U.S. health care spending growth decelerated in 2008, increasing 4.4 percent compared to 6.0 percent in 2007, as spending growth slowed for nearly all health care goods and services, particularly for hospitals. Health spending growth for state and local and private sources of funds also slowed while federal [...]

Spending Cuts will make NHS better says Health Secretary

Sturgeon: cuts will make NHS better January 24, 2010 by Jennifer Trueland · 2 Comments In the first of a series of interviews with people who have an impact on health and health services in Scotland, Jennifer Trueland talks booze, tears and quality of care with health secretary Nicola Sturgeon. Cuts will make health boards [...]

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