President Barack Obama is a staunch advocate of ‘paperless’ hospitals, where patient records, doctors’ orders, and other medical data are kept electronically rather than on paper.  The Congressional Budget Office and other critics of the …

The Barack Obama Administration has placed online healthcare records in the spotlight lately, in an effort that may make out-of-network reimbursement payments from insurance companies to the individuals covered under their plans happen in a …

Forget the mixed-up, jumbled crazy world of health care and medical insurance as we know it today and imagine that a different, more streamlined approach to health care were in place.  While imagining this more …

In an effort to make home healthcare management easier and more effective for individual patients, Intel has launched pilot programs to test a computerized system that will link patients and their healthcare providers, via the …

Imagine yourself walking through the streets of a strange city.  You have places to go but, as with every journey, the destination is merely the end result.  You pass many points of interest along the …

In accordance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act of 2007, the federal agency has just launched a new web page devoted entirely to drug safety data that both the public and the …

Ten top doctors, researchers, and scientists have placed their entire DNA code, revealing every little secret all the way from what makes them so quirky and unique to what genetic tendencies toward what diseases they …

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, along with industry partners from health and technology, are hosting a National E-prescribing Conference on October 6 – 7, 2008 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA.

Surgeons at the Henry Ford Hospital have just announced their use of a three-dimensional robotic surgical technique they used to successfully remove a cancerous tumor from a 50 years old patient.  The technique, SIRS nephrectomy, …

One out of every three US residents lives in a rural area that makes getting immediate medical care in times of emergency a sometimes-risky predicament.  Speed of emergency medical care is especially important with medical …