General Healthcare News
A number of people have asked me recently if healthcare IT initiatives will receive any funding from the recently passed stimulus package. Here is a nice summary I saw recently: The $787 billion economic stimulus package includes $19...
Came across this post from NY Times Health blog this week. Couple of thoughts: Biopsies required to fix for certain time should need for certain IHC (i.e. HER2) required. Formal guidelines coming on ER/PR as well just as we...
Medicare frauds are nothing new and I can't say I am too surprised about this one featured on "American Greed" on CNBC. A Mohs surgeon in Sarasota, FL milked millions out of Medicare for thousands of "skin cancer"...
From A Healthy Blog: In a new study published in the JAMA this week, a group of scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Germany investigated the amount of radiation caused by computed tomography (CT) scans. Conclusion: the median amount of...
Came across an interesting photo sharing group for some very good pathology images at Flickr. Here is the snapshot on the group: About Pathology and Lab Medicine This public group is for images relating to the practice of diagnostic pathology...
'GMA' Tries Out Three Web Sites to See How They Would Advise Patients Came across a story on ABC News looking at use of web-based physician consulting services by providing a list of symptoms to three sites and their responses. ...
