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A Primer For Conservatives: Health Insurance is not Really Insurance
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD Is health insurance a plan to help healthy people mitigate against an unexpected illness, or an income subsidy to help the sick pay for medical care? Conservatives ought to have a clear answer to that question. Not long ago Congressman Morris Brooks from Alabama did not and found himself on the receiving end of liberal ridicule. By suggesting that those who take better care of themselves should pay lower health insurance premiums, Brooks implied that health insurance is indeed a type of insurance arrangement. After all, the risk adjustment of premiums is a practice proper to all other kinds of insurance...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

HxRefactored 2017 Day 1: Purpose Driven Design, Health Equity, and the Clinician Experience
Welcome to Medgadget‘s coverage of HxRefactored taking place this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now in its seventh year, HxRefactored, a Health 2.o and Mad*Pow event collaboration, brings together healthcare designers, practitioners, and ...
Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs

Insurance Only Covers What It Says It Will (Usually)
We all purchase insurance for all sorts of things. We have car insurance, home owners insurance, renters insurance, property insurance, flood insurance, and of course medical insurance in addition to many other policies.Recently I have seen commercial on TV that offer insurance for homeowners to cover things like dishwashers, hot water heaters, air conditioners, etc. They show ' customers ' asking their homeowners insurers to cover their broken AC units. After being turned down, the announcer offers home insurance policy to cover the appliances etc. I think - what a scam. I consider this to be the same as the extended...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 19, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: health insurance insurance costs Source Type: blogs

Don ’t Underestimate Patients
By GEORGE BERGER, PHD I was diagnosed with aggressive but localized prostate cancer at a major Dutch academic hospital. My parameters were PSA 29 or 31, Gleason sum 4 + 4, and stage T2c. Fortunately, there were no detectable distant metastases. The specialist drew a simple image of my urinary tract and told me I was excluded from brachytherapy, which I had never heard of before, because of the size of my prostate. I had to choose between external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) and radical prostatectomy (RP). How on Earth could I choose rationally while knowing so little about prostate cancer? However, I had studied maths and phy...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized ADT Dutch Health Care System Gleason Prostate Prostate Cancer Sweden Source Type: blogs

Hands-On Guidance for Data Integration in Health: The CancerLinQ Story
Institutions throughout the health care field are talking about data sharing and integration. Everyone knows that improved care, cost controls, and expanded research requires institutions who hold patient data to safely share it. The American Society of Clinical Oncology’s CancerLinQ, one of the leading projects analyzing data analysis to find new cures, has tackled data sharing with a large number of health providers and discovered just how labor-intensive it is. CancerLinQ fosters deep relationships and collaborations with the clinicians from whom it takes data. The platform turns around results from analyzing the ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 15, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Decision Support EHR Electronic Health Record Healthcare Analytics Cancer Analytics CancerLinQ Data Integration Healthcare AI Jitterbit NLP OCR Oncology Source Type: blogs

Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis with a Blood Test: Interview with IQuity CEO, Dr. Chase Spurlock
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that afflicts an approximate 2.5 million patients world-wide, giving rise to multiple issues regarding quality of life and the potential for disability. Up to 15,000 people are newly diagnosed with MS...
Source: Medgadget - June 5, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Exclusive Genetics Neurology Pathology Source Type: blogs

Top Companies in Genomics
From portable genome sequencers until genetic tests revealing distant relations with Thomas Jefferson, genomics represents a fascinatingly innovative area of healthcare. As the price of genome sequencing has been in free fall for years, the start-up scene is bursting from transformative power. Let’s look at some of the most amazing ventures in genomics! The amazing journey of genome sequencing Genome sequencing has been on an amazing scientific as well as economic journey for the last three decades. The Human Genome Project began in 1990 with the aim of mapping the whole structure of the human genome and sequencing it. ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics Personalized Medicine AI artificial intelligence bioinformatics cancer DNA dna testing DTC gc3 genetic disorders genetics genome sequencing personal genomics precision medicine Source Type: blogs

Seeing your gynecologist is not just for a Pap smear
Some days, I get so frustrated at work. Yes, we all have our frustrations. Maybe traffic is slow, and you get to work late. Maybe you spill your coffee on your work clothes as you walk into your office. Maybe someone calls in sick, and you are short help at work. But this is big! Like so big, it can impact the trajectory of someone’s life. They, in turn, are forced upon a difficult path that may have been avoided. With healthcare reform on the forefront currently, this impacts every single one of you. Many of you have heard that you don’t need a Pap smear every year, that you just need one every 3 or 5 years. These re...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 29, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Putting the Health and Care in Healthcare
Red, white, and blue. The blue represents Americans’ collective mood. Is it our work-centric culture? Our reticence to discuss mental health? Our collective independence? Regardless the U.S. stands for Under Stress. But why are we so unhappy — at least compared to our Scandinavian brethren? Denmark and Norway top Forbes’ list of the world’s 10 happiest countries. The two countries pace CNBC’s list as well. By comparison, the stars and stripes check in at #15, lagging behind, umm, Costa Rica. The U.S. is an economic powerhouse; our personal incomes are steadily increasing too. But we are running, not walking...
Source: World of Psychology - May 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: Health-related Personal Policy and Advocacy Stress affordable care act Health Care Health Insurance Healthcare Reform life expectancy Medicine Single Payer unemployment uninsured universal health insurance Source Type: blogs

Drug Prices Are Growing at Slowest Rate in Years
You’d think, from listening to politicians and news anchors, that the cost of prescription drugs is the highest it has ever been, and continuing to rise out of control. However, in reality, growth in drug prices this year was half of last year and the average out-of-pocket cost to consumers has decreased. This information comes from a new report from The QuintilesIMS Institute. According to the report, growth in spending on prescription medications in the United States fell in 2016, as competition increased among manufacturers, and payers focused on efforts to limit price increases. According to the report, Drug spen...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 24, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Evidence-Based Policy Making? - Dumb Things Politicians Say About Health Care Policy
There have been multiple legislative attempts at major health care reform in the US.  Typically, such attempts feature considerable public debate, including speechs, congressional committee hearings, sometimes progressing to debates by the House and Senate.  (For example, see thisFrontline chronology of the proceedings up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka " Obamacare, " in 2009.)  Usually the discussion includes some real experts on health care policy, and some real health care professionals, and at least appears to reference some data about medicine, health care, and health economics. Whether p...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: health care reform postmodernism Source Type: blogs

Suppose It ’ s an Obligation and Not a Right?
By THE DARK GODDESS OF REPLEVIN Suppose we frame the current health insurance* debate in a different way? *It is about insurance. “Health insurance”=/=”health care,” although the former should lead to the latter. Rather than arguing whether American individuals have a right to health care (beyond what you can already find in EMTALA, and please God let’s not consider repealing that), because people get very huffy about this concept, can we ask a different question? Should we Americans collectively assume an obligation to “promote the general Welfare” by providing everyone access to ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized EMTALA Obligation Right Source Type: blogs

Toward A New Model For Promoting The Development Of Antimicrobial Drugs
As global health leaders gather in Berlin from May 19–20 for the first-ever G20 Health Ministers’ meeting, one of the main topics of discussion is expected to be how to best fight the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This reflects the growing recognition that AMR poses a significant threat to human health. An influential 2014 report by the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commonly referred to as the O’Neill Commission, estimated that antimicrobial-resistant infections currently claim 700,000 lives worldwide each year, a figure that could rise to as high as 10 million deaths per year by 2050. Estimates...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Seth Seabury and Neeraj Sood Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Population Health Antibiotics antimicrobial resistance Food and Drug Administration G20 O'Neill Commission Review on Antimicrobial Resistance Source Type: blogs

Universal Coverage Means Less Care and More Money
By JANE ORIENT, MD The reported success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) is based on enrollment numbers. Millions more have “coverage.” Similarly, the predicted disasters from repeal have to do with loss of coverage. Tens of thousands of deaths will allegedly follow. Activists urge shipping repeal victims’ ashes to Congress—possibly illegal and certainly disrespectful of the loved one’s remains, which will end up in a trash dump. Where are the statistics about the number of heart operations done on babies born with birth defects, the latest poster children? How about the number of babies saved by th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized enrollment numbers Jane Orient Universal coverage Source Type: blogs

Medicaid: What Happens Now?
With public attention completely focused on the wild effort to reach closure on the private health insurance provisions of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) (H.R. 1628), it was easy to overlook (at least for a moment) the extraordinary nature of its Medicaid changes. Were these provisions to become law, the AHCA would represent the most sweeping federal policy shift since the program’s 1965 enactment. How The AHCA Would Affect Medicaid The AHCA would end the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced funding for the adult expansion population. More profoundly, however—and completely disconnected from the AHCA’s “repeal...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Quality ACA repeal and replace AHCA EPSDT Medicaid block grants Medicaid expansion Medicaid per capita cap medicaid work requirement Source Type: blogs