The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has caused much change in health care and another change is being encouraged: a Bundling Payments initiative. The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a new initiative designed to help...
Healthcare relies heavily on acronyms and jargon. We spell out some of the most common 111 : the new non-emergency number for health in England, replacing NHS Direct's telephone advice line (although NHS Direct hopes to run it in many locations) and out of hours GP helplines, and already live in...
Second part of Guardian Healthcare's guide to healthcare systems in the fast growing BRIC countries, covering India and China India Largely as a result of the colonial influence, India's healthcare is state and territory-organised in what some experts have observed is a macro version of the UK's...
Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) are among the world's fastest growing economies, but provide their citizens with widely variable healthcare While rich developed countries including Britain worry about how to pay for the increasing costs of their existing healthcare systems, newly powerful...
Second part of Guardian Healthcare's guide to healthcare systems in English speaking countries: Republic of Ireland and United States of America Republic of Ireland Considering its shared land border with the UK, the Republic of Ireland has a strikingly dissimilar healthcare system and structure...
Australia, Canada and Ireland have universal healthcare systems, although run on different lines to Britain's NHS. And then there is the USA As David Cameron makes personal pledges on the future of the NHS, after fierce opposition to the government's NHS reform plans, the coalition would do well...
The CY 2011Therapy Requirements effective April, 2011 have resulted in many questions after use by therapists. Therapy Requirements: Questions are rampant about the reassessments required every 30 days and those required on the 13th and 19th visits...
Hey I have a grand idea here, let’s rate them <grin>, a bad on my part here but with recently writing about all the errors and mistakes on doctor rating sites, could not help myself to give the MDS a little boost if you will. Back in February of 2010 I made this post about the FDA regulating...
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Recently I had read in a couple places where the FDA should think about regulating medical records and when you look at where they are today, there’s no way they can bite off more right now as they have more than full plates to deal with. Not too long ago the agency lost their top scientific medical...
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I guess it’s Mr. Grassley again here who may have clout but doesn’t understand the role of Health IT and the FDA itself is in the midst of getting up to date with technology themselves! This goes back to what I have been saying for 2 years here, non participants don’t get it. Wireless Healthcare...
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While you are on the site, you can head on over to the Twitter feed on “#healthcare” and see what is being talked about using the Twitter Hash mark for the topic and feeds where the word healthcare is used. The feed will update about every minute as well. It is a busy feed with a lot...