There are countless new health related apps for your smartphone coming on the market every month. They can measure your heart rate, help with differential diagnosis and possibly even measure your blood pressure. Researchers at John Hopkins University looked to see how accurate one of the most popular blood pressure measuring apps was. They published… Read More
In a major win for the insurance industry and a tremendous loss for patients and consumers, health insurers will not be forced to have minimum hospital and physician standards for 2017, nor will they have to offer standardized options in health plans. Health plans will continue to offer so called narrow provider networks which may… Read More
This April 11, 2015 article in Modern Healthcare discusses the lack of interoperability of health IT systems. This is probably one of the greatest challenges we have in healthcare. Interoperability of electronic health records remains a bridge too far for many providers, despite more than a decade of federal emphasis on information exchange and $29.1… Read More
This is a good article in the February 29, 2016 issue of Modern Healthcare that talks about the risks of EHRs are accentuated in the emergency department setting. We need to advocated for interoperability so we are not stuck with the systems we have today. We also need to advocate for changes to make the… Read More
It is crazy the amount of money that attorneys are paid. Where as in medicine even the highest paid emergency physicians are paid only a fraction of that amount. How can people complain how much physicians earn when they look at attorneys, actors, and athletes. Raising rates ensures that law firms keep up with the competition… Read More
Because of the failure of Medicare and Medicaid to pay fairly, only about 69% of Hawaii physicians accept Medicare patients. A proposed law introduced Jan 22, 2016 by the speaker of the Hawaiian House, Joe Souki, would mandate that all physicians accept Medicare HB 1740 (and possibly even Medicaid) patients as a condition of being… Read More
Why does California law punish emergency department patients. Emergency department patients who often are the sickest may be forced to drive up to an hour to get their medications. 4056. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a licensed hospital that contains 100 beds or fewer, and that does not employ a full-time pharmacist, may… Read More
