Archive for July 27th, 2009

Tremendous controversy surrounds the screening for cardiac disease.
The USPSTF does not recommend heart screening tests for the general population, like a routine EKG or exercise stress test. Texas, however, takes the opposite approach. They recently passed the Texas Heart Attack Prevention Bill (via Schwitzer), “mandating health-benefit plans to provide coverage for certain screening [...]

A new survey that is part of a whitepaper by PWC suggests that most Americans are receptive to receiving on-line medical care.  Perhaps fearing that access to providers will only get worse due to increasing demand from national healthcare reform,…(read more)


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