In " Trump Town, " the Revolving Door Runneth Over: Yet More Ex-Lobbyists as Political Appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services
DiscussionOn and on it goes. The revolving door has been a chronic problem for the US federal government, but the level of revolving door activity in the current regime seems way beyond anything we have seen before. It seems we chronical multiple instances of people going from important health care corporate positions to government positions that regulate or make policy affecting those same corporations for every instance of someone coming from the previous administrations to industry.So, as I have said before, e.g., in August, 2017,The revolving door is a species ofconflict of interest. Worse, some expert...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 15, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: DHHS Donald Trump health care corruption regulatory capture revolving doors Source Type: blogs
A National Health Encounter Surveillance System
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD
Trust is essential for interoperability. One way to promote trust is to provide transparency and accountability for the proposed national system. People have come to expect email or equivalent notification when a significant transaction is made on our personal data. From a patient’s perspective, all health records transactions involving TEFCA are likely significant. When a significant transaction occurs, we expect contemporaneous notification (not the expectation that you have to ask first), a monthly statement of all transactions, and a clear indication of how an error or dispute can be resolved. W...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Genetic Testing and Non-High Risk
A person can be considered medically high risk due to their or a family member ' s medical history. If you are considered medically as high risk, you get popped into the category of give them lots more medical attention and ' lovely ' tests.Now withthe progress of genomic testing, its no longer a big expensive, rare proposition. However, why do we only test the high risk people? These are the people who already know they are high risk. But that leaves a lot of people who don ' t know they are high risk and could be. This doesn ' t make sense. Some new research asks if it wouldn ' t it make more sense to test more peop...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 10, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer cancer prevention genetic testing ovarian cancer Source Type: blogs
A physician ’s guide to life insurance
Life insurance is one of the key foundations of a good financial plan. In this article, we will discuss the basics of life insurance.
Why life insurance?
While you might feel invincible and 100% healthy, as physicians we all know patients or colleagues who were diagnosed with terminal cancer or died suddenly because of an accident or health condition.
If someone is dependent on your income (usually your spouse or children), then life insurance can help provide for them financially if you were to die unexpectedly.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A soc...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 29, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/wall-street-physician" rel="tag" > Wall Street Physician, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
A physician cancels his life insurance policy. Here ’s why.
My blog is called “DiverseFi” because my path to financial independence was not the typical one. Although I’ll talk more about this in another post, my journey neither started from humble beginnings nor was frugality my guiding principle. In fact, it was only after discovering the FIRE community, did I realize that I was indeed financially independent.
That changed my life. Changed my habits. I slowly became more frugal than even before. I fired my financial advisor. Cut out bad spending habits. I started to question even the most minute expenditures.
That’s when the irony truly hit me.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/docg" rel="tag" > DocG, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Doctors, Data, Diagnoses, and Discussions: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Personalized/Precision Medicine
The following is a guest blog post by Drew Furst, M.D., Vice President Clinical Consultants at Elsevier Clinical Solutions.
Personalized/precision medicine is a growing field and that trend shows no sign of slowing down.
In fact, a 2016 Grand View Research report estimated the global personalized medicine market was worth $1,007.88 billion in 2014, with projected growth to reach $2,452.50 billion by 2022.
As these areas of medicine become more commonplace, understanding the interactions between biological factors with a range of personal, environmental and social impacts on health is a vital step towards achieving sustaina...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Clinical Decision Support Genomics Healthcare HealthCare IT Personalized Medicine Drew Furst Elsevier Elsevier Clinical Solutions Precision Medicine Source Type: blogs
Estate Tax Lobbying
Pundits of every political persuasion decry corporate lobbying in Washington, and a major tax bill is a great opportunity for businesses to gain benefits if they convince members of Congress to help them out. However, battles over tax provisions are sometimes not what they appear on the surface.For years, liberal pundits have characterized efforts to repeal the estate, or death, tax as the plutocrats pulling the levers of power on the Republican side of the aisle. But anew investigative piece atDaily Caller by Richard Pollock exposes the lobbying that is undermining good policy on estate taxation.I favor estate tax repeal,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 12, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Doctor, you ’re now a parent. It’s time to get your financial plan in order.
Congratulations!
After months of planning, you are now a proud parent. Starting today the rest of your life will change. No longer will you worry about getting reservations at the “in” restaurant. … or any restaurant. Nope. You won’t have time. Nor will you have energy. Both will get zapped, and that is okay.
Instead, you will be figuring out breastfeeding, bottle feeding, sleep schedules, diaper changes, educational and interesting toys for a baby that just stares. And all of this is okay. In fact, it is better than okay, it is great! You are now on the next stage of your journey.
As this journey begins, you may f...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 4, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/dads-dollars-debts" rel="tag" > Dads Dollars Debts, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Apple Watch " Gifted " to Insurance Policy Holders; Any Gotcha's with the Deal?
I have posted a number of previous notes about both"wearables" and wellness advocacy by employers and insurance companies (see, for example:Wearable Health Monitoring Devices: a Means to Lower Insurance Costs?;United Healthcare Expands Its Wellness Program Using Activity Trackers). Now comes news that the John Hancock insurance company is giving away Apple Watches to participants in itsVitality program (see:You can get an Apple Watch for only $25 ... with one small catch). The latter insurance product is oriented toward customers who pursue a healthy lifestyle. Below is an excerpt from the article:John Hanc...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 24, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Insurance Medical Consumerism Medical Research Preventive Medicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 9th 2017
In this study, we investigated the Hippo pathway, which is known from my lab's previous studies to prevent adult heart muscle cell proliferation and regeneration. When patients are in heart failure there is an increase in the activity of the Hippo pathway. This led us to think that if we could turn Hippo off, then we might be able to induce improvement in heart function."
"We designed a mouse model to mimic the human condition of advanced heart failure. Once we reproduced a severe stage of injury in the mouse heart, we inhibited the Hippo pathway. After six weeks we observed that the injured hearts had recovered the...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 8, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Towards the Recognition of Aging as a Treatable Medical Condition
In recent years numerous groups have made a start on the long road of changing the public view of aging, from considering it a normal state to considering it a pathological state. To have it recognized as a harmful medical condition that can in principle be treated - that medical technologies can be developed for this purpose soon enough to matter. This is a process of unofficial advocacy and persuasion on the one hand, to change minds and educate people, but on the other there is also a strong component of formalism, of working with regulatory definitions. Medical research and development is, sadly, heavily regulated. The...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 6, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Reducing The Externalities Caused By Limited Benefit Plans
Limited benefit or non-Affordable Care Act (ACA)-compliant health insurance products are much discussed of late, since a proposal to ease restrictions on short-term health plans is currently under consideration. Critics have argued that these plans hurt both consumers and the individual market, while defenders have suggested that those who can benefit from this competitively priced option should be free to do so. That these plans may be harmful to at least some consumers is difficult to dispute. In its comment letter, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners supported increased disclosure requirements, noting th...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Katherine Hempstead Tags: Insurance and Coverage ACA-compliant market individual market stability limited benefit plans short-term plans skinny plans state insurance regulation Source Type: blogs
I ’ m 35 Years Old And I ’ m Realizing My Life May Be About to End. And I ’ m Panicking, Just a Little.
By SCOTT RIDDLE
It’s been a while since I put a piece of writing in the public domain, but suddenly I have a lot to get off my chest, well my colon actually.
Just three weeks ago life was good. Correction. It was awesome. The newest edition to our family had arrived on Christmas Eve, joining his two sisters aged 5 and 3. A month later we were on a plane home to Sydney, having spent four great years working for Google in California. My beautiful wife had been working at a startup on NASA’s Moffett campus and was worried about finding something equally interesting in Australia, but she managed to land a very similar gig...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Cancer Colon Cancer Scott Riddle Source Type: blogs
A Slowly Spreading Realization that Radical Change in Human Longevity Lies Ahead
The author of this piece appears quite disgruntled about the prospect of living longer in good health, given an expectation of severe upheaval in government programs of entitlements relating to medical services, pensions, and other wealth transfers that are currently (poorly) structured around the reality of a population expensively and painfully aging to death. Nonetheless, it is an example of the point that a realization is spreading regarding the plausibility of sizable near future changes in human longevity: as that occurs there will be - and must be - large changes in the flows of money associated with aging, from lif...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 4, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What can digital health bring to small countries like Andorra?
Did you know that there is a country where life expectancy for women reaches 98.7 years and 89.4 years for men? Where companies and individuals have been paying income tax only for a couple of years? Where the national football team’s captain has collected more than 600 football shirts during his career? Yes, there is a country like that. It’s a micro-state between France and Spain called Andorra. Are you curious how I as The Medical Futurist ended up there and what digital health could bring for countries with less than a million inhabitants? Read on!
Digital health and Andorra – How did I get to one of the tiniest ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 3, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Andorra digital health digital technology Education gc4 Innovation small country Source Type: blogs
