Study Group: Managed Care Reimbursement Experts(?)

As a clinician leader for some time, it is overtly obvious that comprehensive genetic testing will be fraught with misinterpretation and will lead to consumer confusion and potentially wrong life behavior. Genetic testing has been available for 2-3 decades on a very limited basis and for specific fetal...

Although administrative and nursing/allied medical staff can and will respond to the Quality challenges, physicians (forgive my stereotyping) must be approached more comprehensively to elicit medical behavioral change based on evidenced based medicine or process improvement.  They will slow the...

While no more would argue that control of systolic hypertension is crucial to preventing the consequences of hypertension such as congestive heart failure, MI's, left ventricular hyperthrophy, stroke and kidney failure there are other factors that are associated with these disease states. One of these...

First, and foremost, the only working link for this article can be found at: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSWAT00934620080415?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews Although there is no proof offered in the article to substantiate the suggestion of fraud, there is enough circumstantial...

There are many reasons why the commercialization of human genome "information" will be ABSOLUTE CHAOS AND COST.  The three most prominent are the following:   1. Physician education is almost devoid of practical genomic teachings except for Diabetes and lipid disorders.   2. ...