Four Big Trends

Far-reaching changes are coming, in both policy and the marketplace Several events and trends emerged over the last year that will reverberate throughout the health care marketplace in 2008 and going forward. While none of these dominated the trade press like some other issues – electronic and personal health records, RHIOs, the evolving labor shortage, […]

Health Commentary Covers Health Action

Guest blogger to send posts from Families USA conference Watch this page for the next several days (Jan. 24-26) as we feature coverage of “Health Action 2008” — the annual grassroots meeting of Families USA. Health Commentary guest blogger Brian Klepper is on site in Washington D.C. and will be sending his take on the various health care […]

Nancy Pelosi’s Vision for Health Reform

Great goals, but do they really get at the roots of our problems? The featured highlight address at the opening session of the Families USA Health Action 2008 conference is by Nancy Pelosi, Congress’ first woman Speaker. Speaker Pelosi is clearly a brilliant and warm woman, a friend of Families USA, and she was introduced […]

Leveraging the Doctor as a Trusted Authority

How the medical community can influence society I was on the phone with my good friend Bill Bestermann MD recently. Dr. B, a preventive cardiologist who is passionate about the underlying mechanics of cardiovascular disease and the horrific toll the American diet and lack of exercise is taking on everyday people, lives in spectacularly beautiful, […]

Doctors and the Death Penalty

The role of physicians in lethal injectionMore than 3,000 U.S. citizens are living on “death row” in prisons, awaiting execution. They have each been there an average of just over 12 years since sentencing. As they languish, legal battles continue over the constitutionality of both the death penalty and the means of execution. And as […]

It Helps to Look Back If You Want To Look Forward

What the “Father of Medical Informatics” said in 1991By Mike Magee, MD It helps to look back if you want to look forward. Why? Well, a look back not only provides a check on current ideas and theories, but as importantly gives some indication of the pace of change. Today’s case in point will be […]

The Costs for Family Caregivers Continues to Rise

Doing the right thing is an expensive proposition In the United States nearly a quarter of our multi-generational families have a family member working in a job that they never trained for, never asked for, and have never been paid for. That job is the informal family caregiver. It is estimated that there are 34 […]

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