Americans are living longer, and need to be more involved in maintaining good health to stay productive and active. Guest author Kristina Ridley has some tips on how to do exactly that for those who manage diabetes.

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We learn by our mistakes, which is part of the price we pay for not being omniscient. The risks of using increasingly complicated software to control powerful equipment could be reduced by some simple fail safe procedures, but getting these in place might take some time.

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As if yet another reason might be needed, there’s more than trouble in River City when paying customers have to deal directly with the cartelized medical industry. It’s really a matter of incentives, knowing who calls the tune. And it’s definitely not the customer.

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Few can take issue with the advantages such a system could offer, but even fewer can realistically expect that this initiative will succeed where previous ones have not. The daunting challenges were brought into sharp focus on a recent visit to a comparable Federal system.

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The Food Nazis want to do with salt what they’re doing with trans-fats. Is it really for Our Own Good? (more…)

Vladimir Lenin once said that ‘Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them’. A lot of software companies, capitalist or not, would be surprised that they could suffer a comparable fate. (more…)

Much talk of President Obama ‘saving’ the US’ health industry, like Bush before him, and Clinton before him. A cornerstone of the latest ‘saving’ is a new Electronic Medical Records System. So, what’s going to happen to the two we already bought?
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Doctors who use technology to keep in touch with customers/patients are being penalized by a bizarre payment system. Little wonder that the new Federal health information initiative is drawing more critical scrutiny.
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The traditional physical exam is fast becoming obsolete, in part due to technology and in part the result of the declining examination skills of new doctors. Some of the consequences are interesting.
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The government’s ‘investing’ money in EMR is seen by many as a way of solving the US’ health problems. One thing the government knows how to do well is subsidize failure.
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