From an article in Time… If there is an ideal out there, Baucus says, it can be seen in the kind of medicine already being practiced by Kaiser Permanente, the Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare and Geisinger Health System, which manage to hold down costs and get better results. Their operations...
In an article titled “ Wrong Prescription ” of April 6th issue of TIME magazine, the author Scott Haig argues that digitizing medical records is not a panacea for the ever increasing healthcare costs. He in fact states that systems to support EMRs are being driven by the profit motives of...
Google Health brings in a new dimension to the ever growing search for finding a solution for storage, management and distribution of Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Until so far the onus of managing a health record was the responsibility of the care provider or hospital. But now with Google Health...
The reform of the healthcare system has been one of the major agendas of the Obama Administration. An aging population with rising trends in chronic illnesses has seen a surge in demand for care providers, but the ever increasing healthcare costs are making even some basic healthcare unaffordable, leaving...