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There are two key considerations I think are very indicative of the changing times of American healthcare. First of all, the Consumer Driven Model emerging as the primary vehicle of healthcare insurance. And secondly, the effects on domestic medical costs should this trend continue.
In an era of high speed information, it is unfortunate that our heatlhcare providers are lagging behind consumer demand. The transition from paper to eletronic is inevitable for all providers.
Delay in diagnosis due to an inability to obtain sufficient diagnostic material from the first procedure attempted costs patients, hospitals and insurers, as progressively more invasive (and expensive) modalities are undertaken to determine the nature of a lesion. This randomized trial verifying the...
As drug companies have had physicians cut back on drug rep visits, and have had less ability to influence in prescribing due to big pharma guidelines, they have set their eyes on a new target - the patient
While we have made great strides in reducing needle sticks through education and newer safety needles, accidents still happen. Reporting of injuries is important, not only to identify reasons why people have these accidents (and to hopefully help them learn behaviors to minimized these...
Cerner has made large leaps in electronic charting. The addition of this package to their suite builds additional safety into their system while allowing transfuions to be administered in a safe, paperless manner.
While the results are impressive for velcade/dex vs. VAD, most would not consider VAD a standard induction regimen. Likely to be good news in the long run for Millenium, but many will want to see comparison data for velcade and thalidomide in the induction setting ...
Viagra (sildenafil) a same a PDE-5 same class compound as SLx-2101 has shown efficacy for Raynaud's by significantly reducing the frequency and duration of Raynaud attacks and improved capillary flow velocity by 400%, according to a study led by Roland Fries, M.D and published online...
This state of the art robotic LINAC allows for intracranial and extracranial stereotactic radiosurgery, and has exploded on the scene with excellent treatment results
Varian's flat panel is not digital fluoroscopy for treatment planning, but for image guided radiotherapy for daily treatment delivery - a big difference. This panel is for a state of the art treatment delivery techniquie