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Recent data has suggested that we may be finding too many cases of prostate cancer.
This is important, since there are no studies suggesting that screening for early prostate cancer saves lives. In many cases, “most prostate tumors grow so slowly that had they not been screened, those men would have died of something else [...]
In: Health Care Law
16 Mar 2009John Halamka at Life as a Healthcare CIO provides a good overview of the timeline and deadlines for the health information technology portions under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
Is the cover-up becoming worse than the proverbial crime?
According to the WSJ Health Blog, Jonathan Leo, a professor of neuro-anatomy from a small university in Tennessee, critiqued a study published in JAMA, and pointed out an association between the study’s author and a pharmaceutical company. He posted his thoughts on the website of the [...]
In: Health Care Law
15 Mar 2009The March/April 2009 Issue of Health Affairs concentrates on the topic of Stimulating Health Information Technology. Although I am not a subscriber to Health Affairs the issue looks to have some great articles on health information technology and the current changes in the field.
Included in the issues is a report from the field article by [...]
A study recent came out showing that specialists are providing a greater proportion of primary care services to patients.
According to the Annals of Family Medicine, “Researchers looked at more than 1 billion ambulatory visits to U.S. office-based specialists in 2002-04 and found that 46.3% of visits were for routine follow-up and preventive care of patients [...]
Hospitalists are here to stay, for good.
MedPage Today reports on a NEJM study, not surprisingly concluding that “hospitalists now account for nearly 40% of inpatient Medicare claims for general internist services, up from less than 10% in 1995.”
That’s a lot.
In: Health Care Law
13 Mar 2009The Thursday, March 13 Federal Register (74 Fed Reg 10743) contained a notice for submitting nominees to the new committees created under ARRA-HITECH (stimulus bill) for developing health information technology standards and policy. The two commitees will be called the HIT Standards Commitee and HIT Policy Commitee. Details on these committees and the type of [...]
Tachycardia is any heartbeat faster than one hundred beats per minute. It can come on suddenly, and may bring shortness of breath, nausea, sweating, and panic.
There are different kinds of tachycardia — some life-threatening and some not.
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