Archive for the 'Health Care News' Category

MALPRACTICE IN MEDICINE

October 8th, 2008

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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 [...]

The Importance of Medicare

September 29th, 2008

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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 [...]

Medical Malpractice

August 9th, 2008

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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 [...]

Health Care in Peril Under Bush Budget

July 10th, 2008

The federal budget requested by President George W. Bush for 2009 is being considered by health experts as disastrous to the health of Americans and are looking to Congress for help in order to change it. The spending plan is proposing a seven percent cut in the funding of the Center for Disease Control [...]

Microsoft HealthVault Launches Contest for Best Online Health Applications

May 30th, 2008

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 [...]

Roster of death.

May 26th, 2008

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 [...]

Health is wealth?

May 22nd, 2008

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 [...]

E-prescribing? What is that?

May 20th, 2008

Are you a drug store regular? If you are, then probably you’ll be more than happy to know that you don’t need to line up in your local store anymore just to buy your daily doses—you can do it online. Also, if you take legend drugs that require rigid prescriptions, then perhaps you’ll be more [...]

Two giants merge: Google Health in partnership with Cleveland Clinic.

May 16th, 2008

An earlier post was made here a month ago regarding the beta testing of Google’s Health and surely, as predicted, a test run would be available after a month or so.

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 [...]

Google’s new service.

May 13th, 2008

In the race of becoming the world’s number 1 free web service provider, Google has once again made it to the headlines.

It was accidental really. Computer geeks were able to get a glimpse of a screenshot of a webpage that says, “Google Health Beta”. Perhaps Google found out about the website and they immediately removed [...]


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