By now, I am sure you’ve all heard that Google Health will cease accepting new data at the end of this year. And, by 2013, you will had to migrate it to another site (Microsoft HealthVault is building links to let you do that seamlessly.)
Continue reading Another one bites the dust
OK, I need to inject a little politics into the blog today. I try not to do so. But, there is no way to discuss this matter without injecting politics into the discussion.
Continue reading Let’s kill the big lie!
Ah, yes, newspapers, the web, the politicians… ok, that’s not really the subject of this post. But…
Continue reading Fact-laden, but NOT factual…
I ran across a fantastic article today (this was written almost a month ago, sorry) in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Drs. Rockwood, Song, and Mitnitski, from Dalhousie University in Halifax, analyzed some long term data that obtains in the Canadian National Population Health Survey. The title of the article says it all: Changes in the relative fitness and frailty across the adult lifespan. They employed the data from seven 2 year cycles (starting in 1994-5, ending in 2008-9) of that study. The key performance indicators they examined were death, use of health services, and changes in health status. What made the report intriguing (to me, of course) was that the authors developed what they called the “frailty index”.
Continue reading Finally some useful (and interesting) information about aging and health!
Yes, America has passed health care insurance reform. But (maybe in 2014), we have not addressed the 900 pound gorilla in the room- our overall health care, itself. Here’s an example of the problem- childhood asthma. Of all emergency visits for children (think for a second of how many broken limbs), about 15 to 20% are due to this disease (and much, much higher in cities, where there are less broken limbs from playing in fields).
Continue reading Fee for Service works for car repairs- not people’s health
Continue reading Home Health Care Monitoring is STILL not the norm
[Author’s Note: I thought this was published last week. I guess the holidays took more out of me than I thought…]
Continue reading The Dialysis Bundle May Provide Clues for the Future Health Care Policy
