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1 Mar 2007, 5:58 am
Bush declared that every American should have a "personal electronic medical record" within 10 years — by 2014. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 4:25 pm by Majed Nachawati
  Bard, Gynecare, AMS (American Medical Systems) and Boston Scientific have the largest market shares of transvaginal mesh products. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 6:40 am
The cost of the medical malpractice liability system -- if measured broadly by adding all malpractice insurance premiums -- fell to less than 0.6 percent of the $2.1 trillion in total national health care costs in 2006. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 11:19 am by Deborah Wald
Further, they point to the need for a uniform system for passing medical information between "anonymous" donors and the families of their genetic offspring that protects the autonomy of both donor and recipients, while assuring timely communication of important medical information as needed. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 8:44 am by Regan Zambri Long
These illnesses are of particular concern in hospitals, where close quarters and weak immune systems leave patients uniquely susceptible. [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 8:22 am by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.
Bard, American Medical Systems (AMS), Boston Scientific, Coloplast Corp, and Cook Medical and a few other smaller companies are now negotiating settlement with plaintiffs’ counsel. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 12:07 pm
USA Today has a story about yet another quirk in the American healthcare system: vaccines that are fully covered by Medicaid.for uninsured kids are out of the reach of kids with some, but not enough, health insurance. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 11:06 am by Ray Mullman
  The number of Americans who die annually from preventable medical errors is unknown and that is part of the problem. [read post]
21 May 2011, 12:36 pm
-Teen crashes can be decreased with a comprehensive graduated driver licensing (GDL) system. [read post]
4 May 2009, 11:25 am
But the medical board and the American Medical Association said state lawmakers wanted a doctor to be present but not actively participate.The court ruled 4-3 that state law "by its plain language, envisions physician participation in executions in some professional capacity. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 1:23 pm by Bexis
  Medicare claimed that "medically accepted indications" meant either on-label uses or else a so-called "compendium requirement" - meaning that the particular use had to appear in one of three compendia:  (1) the American Hospital Formulary Service Drug Information; (2) the United States Pharmacopeia-Drug Information; and (3) the DRUGDEX Information System. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 9:01 am
Specifically, enforced medical tourism.For example, just a week or so ago we learned of a teeneager with a heart condition that the Brits' "free" health care was unable to treat, thus forcing his parents to seek help from the much-maligned American health care system:"'Teen 'not sick enough' for NHS heart transplant has urgent op in US'"And, of course, the Much Vaunted National Health Service© is (in)famous for its gleeful… [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 6:45 am
Americans can no longer be deceived by false and misleading claims—it is time for real action. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 9:35 am
Many American tort reformers assert that medical malpractice damage awards are far too excessive. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 9:14 am by Tom Smith
Today’s frenzy of hospital mergers and physician practice acquisitions is giving hospital systems even greater leverage to inflate opaque “charge-master” medical bills that even hospitals are sometimes unable to itemize sensibly. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 7:07 am
Amitabh Chandra — a Harvard economist whose research is cited by both the American Medical Association and the AAJ — says about 3 percent of overall medical spending, is a reasonable upper-end estimate. [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 1:04 pm
By 2030, one of every five Americans will be over the age of 65 and nearly half of all medical care spending will go to seniors. [read post]