If you haven’t read Alvin Toffler’s book, Powershift, you probably have no idea what has happened to us in the last decade with regards to the information era. In this historic book, Toffler talks about the “Powershift” which is the information era and how knowledge and information will be the most valuable currency in the [...]

I previously wrote about how I feel like we are in the “Era of Ancillary Services” for the physician. The New York Times recently ran an interesting article about cardiologists and the unnecessary CT-angiography scan. At the heart of the issue is that among cardiologists the CT-angiography scan (basically a 3-dimensional X-ray of the heart [...]

As you’ve read about in my previous posts, the economic climate in the medical profession is hostile. Physicians must justify to insurance companies almost every single thing they do. The treatments and procedures that are approved with no hassle are usually ones that are very cheap or ones where the physician does not make much [...]

It seems that, by 2009, doctors may be able to bill Medicare for electronic consults, a practice that has been discussed in the past but has not been reimbursed by insurers (except in a few remote instances) to date.
Under this new provision, consumers of healthcare will be able to log on to the Internet and [...]

The cost of healthcare is always a major concern in the U.S. With approximately 47 million uninsured people and soaring costs, the already-beleaguered healthcare system has been a major topic of debate in this, an election year.
In “Options for Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs” from the April 2008 issue of the New England [...]

A recent poll by the California HealthCare Foundation found that even though a substantial amount of patients use the Internet to obtain their health information, few patients make use of the physician rating sites, and fewer still (2%) used the information available to change their physician. However, this could change as more people become aware [...]