Second-guessing patients, emergency workers by Jesse Pines, MD July 26, 2017 In May 2017, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Georgia announced it will no longer cover "unnecessary" emergency department (ED) care, starting July 1. According to BCBS Georgia President Jeff [...]
CNBC 7/26/17 Amazon (AMZN) has started a secret skunkworks lab dedicated to opportunities in health care, including new areas such as electronic medical records and telemedicine. Amazon has dubbed this stealth team 1492, which appears to be a reference to the [...]
by Joanne Finnegan |FierceHealth Jul 19, 2017 12:13pm While stethoscopes can transmit the same germs as unclean hands, none of the doctors in a recent study bothered to clean them between patients. And that was the case even after an educational [...]
Largest cohort study to examine risk by antibiotic class and type by Molly Walker, Staff Writer, MedPage Today July 19, 2017 Action Points • Several common types of antibiotics were linked both to major congenital and to organ specific malformations in infants [...]
Newsweek - Hannah Osborne, July 19, 2017 Eden was submerged in 5 degree Celsius for 15 minutes and was unresponsive after being resuscitated. In what is believed to be a world first, scientists have reversed brain damage in a toddler that [...]
by Joanne Finnegan |FierceHealth Jul 18, 2017 11:53am Automation is expected to replace millions of jobs in the coming years, but it’s not just blue-collar workers in the crossfire. Technology is changing the way some doctors work, and that could result [...]
Communication is key, says Suneel Dhand by Suneel Dhand, MD July 18, 2017 There are many different theories out there about the direction that healthcare should go and what we need to be doing in the future. Passions run high, and [...]
But some patients in LOOK Ahead fared worse with intervention by Kristen Monaco, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today July 17, 2017 Action Points • Among a majority of patients with type 2 diabetes, intensive weight loss intervention reduced the risk of adverse cardiovascular [...]
Also reduces need for intubation, Cochrane reviewers find by Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today July 17, 2017 Action Points • Non-invasive ventilation is an effective treatment strategy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients hospitalized for acute exacerbation and hypercapnic respiratory failure. [...]
Can they succeed where Google and Microsoft failed? by Greg Von Portz July 17, 2017 After the high-profile failures of Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, can tech titan Apple find a way to centralize personal health data, and could it solve [...]