All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

This news is an exciting addition to the existing computerised system for personal use. With the introduction of 'health vault' system by Microsoft, a new era for storing personal health information electronically through a website, that also allows 'HealthVault Search, a specialized medical search...

Medical practice is behind financial serivces in terms of computerization of records. There is no one medical record system(like Microsoft Word) that is used by many practioners.  Inaccessiblity of old medical records leads to increased cost of care because of unnecessary repetition of medical...

One of my previous posts concerned the need for a Rosetta Stone to reconcile all the competing pay for performance efforts.    However,  another approach is to identify and promulgate uniform standards in the evaluation of health care quality and value. ...

Recently there has been a rash of takeover of publicly owned nursing homes by private equity firms flush with cash. There is a concomitant suspicion now that quality is being compromised systematically in these institutions in order to maximize profits. It's important to ascertain if this is so. If...

Many lower income families depend on the SCHIP program administered by individual states to pay for healthcare. Republicans see this as just another entitlement program while Democrats see it as an essential way of making sure children have access to the basics in healthcare. This veto might be based...

AT&T announced the availability of a radiofrequency identification tracking solution for healthcare operations, to increase visibility and safety by monitoring patients and equipment.  AT& T says that it is the first network services company to provide a RFID solution for the healthcare...

The Medicare Part D plans have proven extremely lucrative.  Wellcare has developed a good strategy that allows for enrollment and profitability.

Medical costs increasing at a rate greater than the annual rate of inflation have been a historical fact and should be expected until we get some fundamental changes in the way health care is delivered and managed in the United States.

While cost per capita is the highest in the world, why is our quality substandard?--Health care status is not solely based on healthcare and rejection of accountability of American people remains prevelant. More money is NOT the answer to what ails us in health care.

Physician house calls may represent an emerging major trend in fee-for-service health care delivery. The urgent care center emerged in the 80's and 90's as a novel way for patients to avoid emergency rooms. Of course, this is based on the patient's willingness to pay a fee that is not covered by insurance....