“At hospitals that don’t link it with their medical records, more time must be spent typing in patient information. At Jupiter Medical Center in Florida, that task falls to nurse Jean Thompson, who spends about 90 minutes a week feeding data into the machine. Once she has completed that work, she clicks the “Ask Watson” button to get the supercompu... See more
The start-up should begin with a renewed commitment to promoting beneficial care and eliminating unnecessary care. Most doctors recognize the importance of this distinction, even if we don’t always act on it. In a survey a few years ago, two-thirds of doctors in the United States admitted that between 15 percent and 30 percent of health care is pro... See more
The main premise is that insurance consists of pools of people that have different disease types, but insurance companies make no concerted effort to connect patients of similar disease types, despite all the research above that suggests patients care choices can actually be influenced by peers with a similar disease.
Traditionally, physicians have been allergic to unions -- but as the corporate consolidation of healthcare continues, and the profession of medicine continues to be degraded from one of healing to one of ticking checkboxes and rushing through 15 minute visits, unions offer physicians option to seize back some power and control of the medical profes... See more
A friend of mine recently felt dizzy and went to a US urgent care facility for blood tests. They were inconclusive and so he was sent to the nearby emergency room, which proceeded to do the same blood tests over again, because they were not able to access the urgent care facility's test results in their computer system. This was just plain wasted w... See more