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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-61662020573421753042012-08-31T20:42:00.000-07:002012-08-31T20:43:33.601-07:00Advantages of Medical Alert SystemsA study done on medical alert systems has shown that seniors who purchase a medic alert system stay living independently at home 5-6 years longer than a senior who does not wear the med alert button. These seniors are able remain in their own homes, where in many cases they have lived most of their lives, and retain an active lifestyle, free from fear of falling and being unable to get help. The Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-30689304735279032372012-08-31T20:41:00.000-07:002012-08-31T20:42:29.647-07:005 Characteristics Health Care Systems Need to Move From Uncertainty to PossibilityHealth care systems are undergoing significant changes that will require innovative and skilled leaders. In fact, integrated teams are being formed and piloted to provide quality patient care at a reduced cost. Accountable care organizations and medical home models are just some of the models being discussed to improve quality and reduce the cost of health care. Which model should you implement Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-37570456907320973272012-08-10T10:40:00.000-07:002012-08-10T10:41:06.084-07:00Elderly Home Health Care Top SelectionsFor anyone who is looking for elderly home care services for a loved one, they are going to need to make sure that they take the time to consider all the top options. After all, there are hundreds of different elderly home health care companies out there to choose from that it can certainly be overwhelming. There are a few top picks in particular that you are going to want to learn more about ifAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-84791426914240999822012-07-27T05:37:00.001-07:002012-07-27T05:44:17.274-07:00Home Health Care Choose WiselyMany people don't think about it until it's too late, but home health care is something that you should consider before hospitals or nursing homes become your only option. Realistically, wouldn't you want your children to keep you around after you are unable to take care of yourself, in the comfort of your own home?If you have not run across the idea of home health care yet in your travels, it Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-33727900533856019192012-07-22T21:37:00.001-07:002012-07-22T21:38:47.421-07:00Bay Area Home Care Services Always the Right Choice for Home Health Care!How To Stop The Hands Of Time And Prevent Aging Aging is a process everything and everyone goes through. From a fine wine, to an elegant older woman, there are many plus sides to aging. There are down sides as well. As with anything there are always two sides. Things and people that age gracefully are generally preferred by everyone.Memory Tips As you age, it is important to reassess your Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-75157569214360975732012-07-22T21:36:00.000-07:002012-07-22T21:37:18.102-07:00Attention Home Health Care Now You Can Easily Get New Ways To Observing Chair Raiser Daily LivingIf you or a cherished one have difficulty getting up and moving about or alternatively from sitting furnishings, buying a well made chair raiser invariably is an easy and affordable answer to the issue. Boosting your chair's position makes it way more easily accessible and comfy to those having personal injury or perhaps ailments. It is another good way to help make the elderly more comfortable Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-65871257558256376042012-07-22T00:06:00.000-07:002012-07-22T00:07:05.473-07:00Alternative Financing Options - Home Health Care FactoringSpecifically, Credit Unions, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Micro Lenders and Accounts Receivable Factoring Firms all said YES to the majority of their small business financing applications while most larger banks repeatedly said NO.Although a home healthcare agency owner could be approved for financing by any of the alternative lenders listed above, the best alternative Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-50324412072178226332012-07-14T21:46:00.001-07:002012-07-14T21:46:47.717-07:00All For One Home Health Home Health Care For Pediatric ClientsWhen we hear the words home health care, what comes to our mind is the care given at home for old and aged individuals. What we don't know is that pediatric home health care is also widely being practiced on most part of the country. This type of home health care specializes on the needs of pediatric clients or those aged 18 and below. See that there are also individuals specifically the kids andAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-83424094579684213222012-07-14T21:45:00.000-07:002012-07-14T21:46:17.477-07:00About Home Health CareNumerous seniors that are older than sixty five years old have difficulty maintaining their lifestyle because of sickness or feeling weak. As with young kids, they have providers that arrive in-home to help them out. These home health care assistants come during the day, or some stay overnight to help with regular day time duties. The most typical responsibilities these assistants do are listed Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-70930946944628752312012-07-05T05:00:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.613-07:00Giant GSK Settlement Provides Reminder of the Pervasiveness of Stealth MarketingThe latest and biggest legal settlement involving health care to hit the news, that of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the US government, has many familiar elements. As summarized by the New York Times,In the largest settlement involving a pharmaceutical company, the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-89215718228688562522012-07-02T12:38:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.631-07:00Fool Us Once, Shame on You, Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us - The Untrustworthy Pronouncements of Aetna's Former CEOsA small tempest in the larger US health care reform teapot was produced a few weeks ago when Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna, declared in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he no longer supported the health insurance mandate. The "mandate" for all US citizens to buy health insurance, actually a relatively small tax that would be imposed on people without health insurance, was the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-74818492879514151002012-06-28T09:16:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.645-07:00Health Care (Insurance) Reform Upheld, but Concentration and Abuse of Power Remain Largely UnaddressedThis may seem like sour grapes, but... Numerous media reports say that the US Supreme Court has upheld the massive US health care "reform" law (look here for Reuters coverage today, and here, for the Los Angeles Times, for example). In my humble opinion, the law will likely increase acess to commercial health care insurance, although will likely not reduce the expense of such Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-63865752016062785092012-06-28T08:14:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.680-07:00FDA Safety and Innovation Act: To contain an "Appropriate, risk-based regulatory framework pertaining to health information technology"Congress has just released an an Act "to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs and medical devices, to establish userfee programs for generic drugs and biosimilars, and for other purposes." Health IT provisions are included.This Act, S. 3187, is entitled the ‘‘Food and Drug Administration Safety and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-77788555465488823592012-06-27T13:18:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.693-07:00The Revolving Door's Bearings Overheat - Two Examples of the Health Care Insiders Who Keep it SpinningTwo recent stories illustrate a kind of conflict of interest affecting government health care policy. Note that neither story appeared in any one media outlet, but had to be pieced together from several sources, not all contemporaneous.The Peripetatic Architect of Health Care Reform ImplementationHere is the story of Steve Larsen's latest career move, per the Wall Street Journal,A top official inAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-14870228547442102952012-06-27T10:39:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.711-07:00Banking as the Standard Healthcare Should Look Up To On Medical Information Security?At past posts "Don't Worry, Your Electronic Medical Records Are Getting Safer With Every Passing Day", "Another Episode of "But Don't Worry, Your Records are Safe..." and "Still More Electronic Medical Data Chaos, Pandemonium, Bedlam, Tumult and Maelstrom: But Don't Worry, Your Data is Secure", "Don't Worry, Your Records are Safe - Part IV" and others, I wrote on the issue of medical record Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-86345255827767002652012-06-26T09:41:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.807-07:00"More Marketing Than Science" - An Anonymous Confession About Deceptive Marketing Published in the British Medical JournalThe British Medical Journal just published an anonymous article by a pharmaceutical company insider that explained once again how pharmaceutical companies turn research studies, apparently scholarly articles, and medical education into stealth marketing efforts. (See Anonymous. Post-marketing observational studies: my experience in the drug industry. Brit Med J 2012; 344: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-89231070151135659472012-06-25T18:09:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.821-07:00FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device RecallsAt "FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device Recalls" via Kapersky Labs, a software security company, it is observed (emphases mine):Software failures were behind 24 percent of all the medical device recalls in 2011, according to data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which said it is gearing up its labs to spend more time analyzing the quality and security of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-55020122364065319692012-06-25T09:45:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:14.918-07:00Huge Insurance Company WellPoint Settles Once Again, Providing a Window On the Ethical Questions Its Birth PresentedAnother month, another question about the ethical conduct of for-profit insurance giant WellPoint. WellPoint Settles Allegations its Predecessor Anthem Cheated its Former Policy-HoldersThis time the issue was how the company treated people insured by its now Anthem subsidiary a long time ago. Here is the Reuters version:Health insurer WellPoint Inc has agreed to pay $90 million Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-29670830787759553012012-06-24T05:49:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:15.018-07:00AMIA Board: specification of core competencies in Biomedical InformaticsIn 1998 I launched a website called "Medical Informatics and Leadership of Clinical Computing" (now entitled "Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics- Common Examples of Healthcare Information Technology Difficulties" at this link).Its theme was that leadership of IT in healthcare was severely lacking in the formal competencies needed to reach any measure of success, and in fact the lack of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-23078138258087863712012-06-18T15:39:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:15.118-07:00Administrators at Pepper Spray U Found to Have Violated Medical Professor's Academic FreedomThere they, the management of University of California - Davis, go again.The Wilkes and Hoffman Op-Ed Questioning A University Sponsored Aggressive Prostate Cancer Screening ProgramAccording to the Los Angeles Times, and a post in Inside Higher Ed, the trouble began when Dr Michael Wilkes, a professor of medicine at University of California - Davis, and Jerome Hoffman, a professor of emergency Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-8561277585689894612012-06-14T07:06:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:15.214-07:00Ellmers Calls on Sebelius to Address Health IT Safety Concerns: A Responsible Voice in Government on Health IT and HIT Safety The following press release is very welcome, and speaks for itself. There is a responsible voice in the government wilderness. It is perhaps no surprise it comes from a Congresswoman who is also a registered nurse: Ellmers Calls on Sebelius to Address Health IT Safety Concerns06/12/12Safety Risks and Health IT-Related Errors Cited in IOM RecommendationsWASHINGTON – Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-84514134416982722112012-06-06T11:00:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:15.312-07:00University of Miami Lays Off 800, Cuts Research Funding, Builds New Presidential MansionDespite the trillions of dollars flowing through the US health care systems, prominent not-for-profit health care organizations seem to be complaining more often that the money going to them is not enough. The Lay-Offs and Research CutbacksRecently, for example, the University of Miami announced that its medical center would have to tighten its belt. In April, according to the Miami Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-81183339381419551372012-06-05T13:11:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:15.408-07:00Cart Before the Horse, Part 3: AHRQ's "Health IT Hazard Manager"In a July 2010 post "Meaningful Use Final Rule: Have the Administration and ONC Put the Cart Before the Horse on Health IT?" and an Oct . 2010 post "Cart before the horse, again: IOM to study HIT patient safety for ONC; should HITECH be repealed?" I wrote about the postmodern "ready, fire, aim" approach to health IT:In the first post, I wrote:... These "usability" problems require long term Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5726992707941965259.post-27363685141086890752012-06-05T10:43:00.000-07:002012-07-11T00:34:15.505-07:00More Electronic Medical Record Breaches: You Could Not Do This With PaperI have written repeatedly on the dangers posed by poorly managed health IT regarding information breaches. See "2011 Closes on a Note of Electronic Medical Record Privacy Breach Shame" and other posts at this query link: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/medical%20record%20confidentialityNow this, from Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post:As Patients' Records Go Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991068220074279397noreply@blogger.com