How health IT can deliver on the promise of Medical Travel
Health IT for large systems, hospitals, and traditional physician practices is well underway. Enough so that innovators/startups, are starting to see consolidation and heavy competition. As I look around at new areas for health IT implementations, I think areas in medical travel or medical tourism ( “MT”) appear to be great opportunities. A potent mix of the Internet, cloud computing and globalized medicine — when combined — should drive medical travel. I’ll be speaking at the Medical Travel and Global Healthcare Business Summit in Tampa Florida. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - May 18, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
How health IT can deliver on the promise of Medical Travel
Health IT for large systems, hospitals, and traditional physician practices is well underway. Enough so that innovators/startups, are starting to see consolidation and heavy competition. As I look around at new areas for health IT implementations, I think areas in medical travel or medical tourism (“MT”) appear to be great opportunities. A potent mix of the Internet, cloud computing and globalized medicine— when combined— should drive medical travel. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - May 18, 2015 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Calorie Restriction Makes Old Muscle Metabolism More Youthful
In conclusion, 14 weeks of CR improved muscle metabolism and preserved muscle mass in middle-aged animals but not in young, developing animals. CR-attenuated age-related muscle loss is associated with reprogramming of the metabolic pathway from glycolysis to OXPHOS. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - April 22, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Autologous Fat Cell Transplant Reduces Osteoarthritis Symptoms
This is a good example of first generation cell therapies that have been available via medical tourism for quite some time, with enough information available for patients to make an informed decision about use, but are only now working their way through the regulatory system in the US:
Osteoarthritis (OA), a debilitating and painful degenerative disease, strikes an estimated 14 percent of adults 25 years of age and older, a third of adults age 65 and older in the U.S. alone. Those who suffer from OA may one day have a new and effective cell therapy, thanks to a team of Czech researchers who studied the effectiveness of us...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 17, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
At Some Point the "Anti-Aging" Industry Will Stop Producing Junk and Nonsense, and Will Actually Sell Meaningful Treatments
It is perfectly possible to build a tremendously successful business while failing to deliver on any of the initial motivating goals and ideals. The modern "anti-aging" industry is a perfect example of this point, written thousands of times over in the careers of salespeople and founders. It began in earnest in the 1970s, a point in time when advocates for longevity science were a lot more optimistic, radically overoptimistic in fact, about what could be achieved in the near future. They built a supply pipeline for what they believed would come, but in the end, when the real thing never turned up, filled that pipeline with...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 18, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
What to Expect in Aging
Everything we know about the way in which people fall apart with age is based on what happened in the past. The research community has access to centuries of good epidemiological data to demonstrate what to expect in old age both with and without modern medicine. Though when you stop to think about the old today, bear in mind that the oldest old spent most of their old age in a time prior to genetic testing, highly effective heart therapies, and many other developments of the past twenty years. Those who are merely elderly still lived half their lives in a medical environment that would appear extremely primitive to anyone...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 6, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Considering the Impact of Age-Related Conditions on the Effectiveness of Regenerative Medicine
Most people would like to focus on the impact of regenerative medicine on age-related conditions, but there is every reason to suspect the existence of a negative impact in the other direction. These conditions may well have varied detrimental effects on the class of cell transplant therapies that are presently fairly widely available via medical tourism. Aging is a matter of cellular and molecular damage, but damage spirals out to cause systematic dysfunction that in turn leads to more and different forms of damage: it is an accelerating curve downwards towards frailty and death once it gets going in earnest. These later...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 12, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Cavalcade of Risk is up at Insurance Regulatory Law
Check out the latest Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival at Insurance Regulatory Law. You’ll read about unintentional medical tourism, family dinners, Black Friday, earthquakes in Canada and more! (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - November 30, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 11-04-2014
Back with more of the Ebola Chronicles …
Ebola fears causing discrimination problems all over the US. Thomas Duncan died from Ebola. Now his fiancee is having difficulty finding a place to live as landlords are refusing to rent to her. People of African descent are facing discrimination just because they are from Africa. Mothers of some school children told one African cafeteria worker to leave the school because she “might have Ebola.”
In Liberia, bleeding patients are often refused medical care due to Ebola fears. The picture at the link shows a picture of a woman who was bleeding heavily from a miscarr...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - November 4, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Has Medical Tourism Jumped the Shark?
Over the years, we've written many times about medical tourism: from folks traveling to the US for treatments to folks who found better options abroad.But this, this boggles the mind:"The number of foreigners traveling to Switzerland to commit assisted suicide doubled over a four-year period"Europeans made up the bulks of their "customers," the article didn't mention how many Yankees participated.Original content copyright © InsureBlog (Source: InsureBlog)
Source: InsureBlog - August 22, 2014 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs
Reminder: Rejuvenation Biotechnology 2014 is Next Week
The SENS Research Foundation is hosting Rejuvenation Biotechnology 2014 on August 21st in Santa Clara, California. The theme for this conference is bringing together business and science to pave the way for later clinical applications of the results of research programs that are still in progress.
SENS Research Foundation is proud to present the Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference: Emerging Regenerative Medicine Solutions for the Diseases of Aging. This conference will bring together leaders from the Alzheimer's, cardiovascular, cancer, and other age-related disease communities to discuss preventative and combinatorial ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 13, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Online Bidding for Best Price for Orthopedic Surgery with Medibid
I have posted a number of previous notes about so-called medical tourism whereby U.S. consumers seek medical care abroad for a reduced price (see, for example: Two Drivers for Medical Tourism: Public-Private Partnerships and Medical Insurance Participation). A total hip replacement is available at hospitals in India for a fraction of the cost in the U.S. Obviously, the people who seek such services are uninsured or under-insured. A new and interesting option for reduced price surgery at U.S. facilities is available via a web site called Midibid. This was discussed in a recent article (see: Patients Seeking Chea...
Source: Lab Soft News - August 8, 2014 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Health Insurance Healthcare Business Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Source Type: blogs
Delivering Stem Cells to Improve the Response to Exercise
There are countless potential ways to use stem cells to improve health. These are still the very early stages of stem cell medicine, when looking at the long term. Researchers have barely scratched the surface of what could be accomplish once patient-matched stem cells of any arbitrary type can be reliably and rapidly generated to order. To give just a few examples that are already possible: deliver vast numbers of immune cells into the body to attack cancer, a specific pathogen, or simply to boost immune function in the elderly; deliver neural stem cells to improve plasticity in the brain; repairing worn joints and heart ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 21, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Health Business TV: Cash for specialists, eVisits again, nursing shortage mythology
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=SqEf7ry112cIn this fifth episode of Health Business TV, I discuss my interview with HelloMD about cash payments to specialists, the long and slow evolution of eVisits, more on the nursing shortage myth, the United Independent Party in Massachusetts, and an update on the proposed 29% health insurance premium hike for our business..
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By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams of the Health Business Group
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Source: Health Business Blog - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: David Williams Tags: Health plans Medical travel/medical tourism Patients Physicians Podcast Policy and politics Health Business TV United Independent Party Source Type: blogs
