All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Business of Medicine

What is the chance of real Healthcare reform in the US when major insurers turn huge profits and support a massive lobbyist effort in Washington? Hospitals and doctors are presented as the main cause for spiraling healthcare costs. As modality vendors release newer products like 256 slice scanners,...

A small article that really doesn't do justice to the topic and makes a few misdirected comments.     

Slow EHR adoption by small to medium sized Physician practices, those with fewer than 100 providers, clearly shows a market niche for a cost effective, Web-based delivery of these systems. This will remove the primary pain point in adoption by smaller practices and groups.

I HAD THE 2ND CHARTLESS OFFICE IN THE SOUTHEAST THE 1ST IN TN. WHEN I 1ST OPENED MY OFFICE IN NASHVILLE IN 1991. ONCE IN YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK TO CHARTS; HOWEVER, THE COST ARE HIGH AND THE LEARNING CURVE IS SLOW. MOST DOC'S DON'T LIKE A CHANGE. THUS THE CONVERSION RATE WILL BE HIGHER IN DOCS STARTING...

Only 1 in 5 physicians use electronic patient records. ( and those are either in University Hospitals, large multispecialty clinics or VA hospitals)

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?

Medical care in the U.S. is continuing its slide toward Socialism.  The lack of price transparancy in medicine scares people and leads them to believe that the government must step in to protect them from being price gouged.  The best protection for most people is to be...

'Safety' scalpels, blunt needles and government interference.

      Parents never gave plastic a second thought that these seemingly safe vessels are capable of destroying, altering, and risking our children's internal building blocks of life. Babies used to be nursed with glass bottles that were capable of being sterilized,...