All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

Electronic prescribing cuts the potential for errors in transcription, drug interactions andlost prescriptions.

This is fine for those who can afford it, but will not/does not have much impact on the vast majority of Americans.

People will pay for health services when they can see the value. Doctors are not ready for a change in the delivery system.

It is medical care in the free market system.  The key to this system is no insurance intereference in the care of the patient.   Reduces overhead and administrative costs.

House calls are not likely to expand to subspecialties, except in circumstances where a followup visit is required, and the primary doctor recommends specialized care.  One exception might be expanding the scope of house calls to cover all non-emergent care for the elderly who can afford an in-house...

Health care cost increases remain unabated because they are not being managed. Employers behave as though they have no control over health care cost management Consumers are largely blind to the true cost of health care until they lose their insurance. Physicians suffer from stagnant fees because the...

House calls for physicians is a growing area in the primary care fields since the reimbursements are so low for the services provided at their clinics.  Physicians can make 10 times the amout if they do house calls as compared to seeing patients in the office.  so clearly this is an expanding...

I tracked down the proposed law online, and seems to still be in a very rough draft state;  I find it hard to believe that a doctor will be paid $1.00 per electronic prescription.  That can actually add up to a lot of money per month, and actually make me NOT groan when, at the end of a visit,...

Patients with high arterial pulse pressure may be at increased risk for high-tension open angle glaucoma, a Dutch study concludes. Researchers analyzed data from 5,317 individuals, 215 of who had definite or probable open-angle glaucoma and 5,102 of whom were disease free.The analysis found that high-tension...

HHS Secretary, Michael Leavitt,  announced this week a new push for personalized healthcare.  The Personalized Health Care Initiative will improve the safety, quality and effectiveness of healthcare for every patient in the U.S.  By using "genomics", or the identification of genes and...