Thursday 26 June 2008
MedHelp, a doctor/patient and patient/patient health care community will begin offerings its users access to HealthCare.com’s health care provider directory.
Archive for June, 2008:
Thursday 26 June 2008
SimulConsult CEO (and Health Business Blog contributor) Michael Segal, MD, PhD and Kaiser Permanente’s Barbara Scherokman, MD, FAAN, FACP are the authors of Health 2.0 for Neurologists, posted at the American Academy of Neurology’s website.
Thursday 26 June 2008
From the Kaiser Family Foundation:
Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate, features interviews with leaders of organizations representing health care providers, insurers, policymakers, employers, labor unions and consumers sharing their views on shortcomings in the nation’s health care system and how it could be improved. In the interviews, health care leaders discuss their priorities for change, including covering some or all of the 47 million uninsured Americans, reducing health care costs, improving access to care, enhancing the quality of health care and changing the tax structure to allow more people to purchase their own insurance. These leaders also share their views on the prospects for change after the 2008 election and what the next President and Congress should do to make the health system work more efficiently.
Thursday 26 June 2008
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, best known for its suicide prevention hotline (1-800-273-TALK), has launched the Lifeline Gallery, where avatars discuss suicide prevention and their experiences coping with suicide among family or friends.
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Aetna is sponsoring a clinical trial of a daily low-stakes lottery to see whether it helps promote adherence among coumadin patients. According to the Hartford Courant (Lottery for Pill-Takers Could Be Healthy Bet), the unusual trial design features a daily one-in-five chance to win $10 and a one-in-100 chance to win $100. The expected value is $3 per day (1/5*$10+1/100*$100=$3), which amounts to $540 over the six-month trial. (It’s not clear from the article if the odds for lottery participants improve when fewer people take their meds.)