All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

Something must be done to increase the value (cost-effectiveness) of care delivered to patients in our broken healthcare and unsustainable Medicare model. The problem with today’s pay-for-performance and no-pay-for-poor-performance initiatives is a cart-before-the-horse issue for which there is a solution--one...

The Wall Street Journal adds some fuel to buyout rumors with their article about McKesson (MCK). As I see it, McKesson is the most logical LBO target among the Big 3 wholesalers, especially given its business mix, current operating platform, and age of the management team

Those programs that have a large census in the nursing home NH will be at risk for decreased revenues and closer scrutiny of their programs. Growth estimates for all programs that center their services on NFs will need to change their focus.

1. The article puts a focus on a very serious health problem, childhood obesity, and serves an example of good corporate citizenship that other should follow. 2. The article does not present evidence that prvention and wellness programs actually save money for the health care system. There is actually...

The country spends an inordinate amount on health care for people who experience conditions and illnesses that could have been prevented.  IBM recognizes the importance of Prevention as a mainstay of their health program. Prevention and Wellness companies are the future of health care delivery

Pfizer may have to end or amend its exclusive distribution deal with UniChem, the wholesale arm of Alliance Boots (AB), under proposals being considered by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). My prediction: The OFT will require Pfizer to expand its network to at least one other wholesaler, but not require...

After being initially reported among injecting drug users in Detroit in 1981 and then associated with the deaths of 4 children in Minnesota and North Dakota in 1997, community-associated MRSA has become the most frequent cause of skin and soft tissue infection presenting to emergency departments in...

The death rate from cancer is dropping due to improved therapy?

I have been practicing Medicine for 14 years and have seen that despite excellent care complications still occur.  For CMS to state that there are 8 diagnoses that are preventable is preposterous.  This is such an outrage that every Physician and Hospital employee should write their ...

This is a chilling concept. To have a govenrment agent decide what is a "preventable" complication is a disaster. This is another step in the development  of Hillary Care.