GLG News by Medical Tourism Experts

Beyond their cost, the other major stumbling block to more widespread adoption of electronic health records has been the matter of protecting consumers' health privacy.   Microsoft, Google and dozens of other organizations promoting the adoption of electronic personal health records last...

New method for ranking of Hospitals would work towards better deliverables focussing more on "care-n-cure". Providers not being 'ranked' should be disallowed to continue practice. New ranking benefits are immenses; to cite a few-we all lead very good and healthy systems provided our life...

No; it would not benefit to pharma companies ONLY to look at newer options all the time to come. Infact, Alternate Drug market is fast emerging and it has almost outpaced existing drug delivery system. Drug Protocols and Prescription Drug Manuals sometimes donot recommend or it even debars usage of...

There is yet another ranking methodology for hospitals out there now.  Unlike earlier ones, however, this one at least tries to combine in one index both quality and affordability/efficiency (as well as patient satisfaction) simultaneously.  Doing this creates an otherwise elusive...

OBESITY is not actually a 'disease' but it can lead to all sorts of diseases such as heart-attack, chest-pain continuously, thyroid problems for women, menstruation problem, sex problems etc., etc., Life should NOT be lead wrongly with wrong food habits, excessive eating with absolutely NIL or negligible...

Customer Value Propositions (CVPs) in down-turn economy should be seriously considered akin to CSR programs and that there need to be a new syndrome or modelling under economic terms of what can be termed as CUSTOMER SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CUSOR). If customers are not driven to their home-deliverieson...

EMR or EHR ie., Electronic Medical Records or Health Records does warrant and expect from medical professional an astute techno-savvy partcularly in computers the writing skills of medical records with an ardent training of the secretaries normaly called the fifedom. EMR is an excellent way of racing...

Interconnection with banking sector for cash less insurance requirements for providers and making a tripartite agreement for payments between Providers' bankers, Providers' insurance companies and Payers would dramatically improve the syste. Secondly "Productising-the-Services" is yet another area which...

Consumer directed health plans are moving the financial responsibility for payment more and more from insurers to patients.  How does this affect the information system needs of physicians, hospital and other health care providers?

This is a blood glucose monitoring system with integrated testing supplies (blood strips and lancing) in one compact meter, currently NOT FDA approved. Product was recently shown during the American Diabetes Association Annual Scientific Sessions meeting and exhibits in San Francisco.