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Medical Malpractice is one major area within health care law in which misconduct or lack of skill in providing medical treatment or services. Through a negligence action, the victims of medical malpractice seek compensation for their physical or emotional injuries, or both.
If the plaintiff patient can establish that there was in fact a patient-physician relationship, the physician may be found liable for medical malpractice. To protect themselves against the massive costs of such claims, they purchase malpractice insurance. Medical malpractice liability can extend to hospitals and even to health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Most states have enacted legislation that modifies the common law action of medical malpractice, in an attempt to stem the rising tide of lawsuits.

Medicare’s journey can only be matched by the difference Medicare has made in the lives of the elderly and disabled. At the time, growing old meant poverty; growing old meant disability; and growing old meant going without health insurance. It paved a way to help them rise from the twilight of life.

A big percentage of seniors had no insurance for hospital care. Many had to choose between saving their health and spending all they had saved. Too many had to watch the spark of hope fade as they drown into poverty. And too many had to bear the pain of an untreated illness-and a seemingly uncaring nation.

Medicare is a living program- one whose promise will be just as important for each succeeding generation of Americans. But to be able to keep that promise for future generations, for our children and grandchildren, we must continue to strengthen and modernize Medicare.

The fact remains, that thanks to Medicare-young families and young people would no longer have to deplete their own savings and dreams providing for the medical needs of older family members.

One major area covered by the Health care law is medical malpractice, which is professional misconduct or lack of skill in providing medical treatment or services. The victims of medical malpractice seek compensation for their physical or emotional injuries, or both, through a negligence action.A defendant physician may be found liable for medical malpractice if the plaintiff patient can establish that there was in fact a patient- physician relationship; that the physician breached (violated or departed from) the accepted standard of medical care in the treatment of the patient; that the patient suffered an injury for which she should be compensated; and that the physician’s violation of the standard of care was the cause of the injury.To protect themselves against the huge costs of such claims, physicians commonly purchase malpractice insurance. Physicians’ malpractice premiums total billions of dollars each year and add substantially to the cost of health care in the United States.

The increased funds for the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health are too small to address rising costs. This lack of concentration in health care comes in a time where medical care costs are skyrocketing and the health of more Americans becoming more of a problem.

Therefore, health care encompasses anything and everything that has to do with the well being of a person which includes but not limited to health care professionals and health organizations. In majority of developed countries, health care can be availed of regardless of socio-economic status, gender, age or race. Health care is a basic right that must be accorded to citizens of every country.

The Microsoft HealthVault Fund has increased from $3 million to $4.5 million to give more substantial awards for the winners of the online health applications contest. This contest encourages the creation of solutions that address health issues such as childhood obesity, diabetes management, medication reconciliation and health management. The judges represent leaders from the health field, including Adam Bosworth, Newt Gingrich, Mark Liponis, M.D., Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D., Leslie Nowralk, Mark Pierson M.D., and Brent Ridge, M.D. The winners will be revealed at the Microsoft HealthVault Solutions Conference which will be held from June 9 to June 10 in Bellevue, Wash.

Do you remember the game you played when you were kids? The game wherein you had to save only 5 – 10 people (placed inside the boat) out of, say, 20 (depending on the rules of the game), and lay off the others who are “worthless”, all of which have special cases?

Doctors in Chicago are pretty much doing the same right now. A group of medical professionals, together with some prominent people in the academe, have come up with a list of who won’t join the boat if ever something like that will happen. They included in their list the elderly, victims of trauma, patients who have had 3rd degree burns and those who are mentally challenged. They actually did this list so that all hospitals will adopt the same roster of patients.

Sounds familiar? It’s like the 3rd sequel of the Titanic.

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A lot of people consider “health is wealth” but David Williams of the Health Business Blog thinks otherwise: he thinks that preventing illnesses is more costly than getting sick. His points of view indeed are radical as it avoids the traditional take on health care. He deeply relied on Washington Post’s article that basically has the same context, and has cited his quantitative sources as well to prove his point of view.

Bob Coffield, a health care lawyer himself, does not agree with Williams as he said that people with healthy systems will have little problems in the future.

Maybe it was just a matter of seeing things in a short term or long term manner.

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This is known as e-prescribing. Normally, legend drugs are harder to get since wrong doses (or wrong drugs, for that matter) can lead to some fatal repercussions. But, legend drug prescriptions have now been made more accessible to the public since it can be done online. It doesn’t mean though, that you can just get these things just like how you obtain over the counter drugs; it’s basically the same process (you have to have a specialist) but the transaction is done online.

This service however is only legal in West Virginia and will only apply to emergency cases.

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Now, Google has chosen its partner in making the test run possible: the Cleveland Clinic. The said hospital, ranks as one of the best in America according to U.S News and World Report. Cleveland Clinic patients can put their medical profiles on the internet (Google’s database) so that their medical history will be available for search via Google Health.

A certain Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum questioned the process since this concerns the privacy of the individuals who will join the test run.

It is but important to note that the putting up of medical profiles on Google Health is on a voluntary basis.

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