An aging population, cost restraints, government financial incentives and medical error reduction efforts are key drivers in the exploding handheld device market for health care solutions according to a report published by Kalorama Information. “Hanhelds in Healthcare: The World Market for PDAs, Tablet PCs, Handheld Monitors, & Scanners,” estimates that in 2010, the health care [...]
Two out of three U.S. physicians use a smartphone according to an April 2010 report published by the California HealthCare Foundation. Manhattan Research forecasts that this trend among physicians will spike from 64 percent in 2009 to 81 percent in 2012. Agile. Easy-to-use. Fast. Fun. Hand-held. Low-cost. Mobile. All stellar attributes of an on-the-go device [...]
In a poll of 4,000 adult Americans, 77 percent admit that they don’t understand how the U.S. health care system works. One in four healthcare consumers has no idea how much he or she pays for health insurance according to a 2010 survey conducted by Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. After a year and a [...]
The costs of war are staggering. After nearly a decade of combat on two battle fronts, the United States is now calculating its bill. According to Pentagon estimates, medical costs incurred by the 9.6 million military troops, dependents, and retirees insured through the Federal TriCare program are exploding at twice the nation’s overall health care [...]
Will health insurance premiums continue to rise? Yes. Here’s why. In the health care industry, the dirty words are “cost-shifting”. You don’t get what you pay for. With health care, you pay for what others get. Because of cost-shifting, you end up paying for the health care costs incurred by other people. In the U.S., [...]
The Hawaii House Committee on the Judiciary unanimously passed two resolutions to help troubled soldiers. The approved House Resolution 200 and House Concurrent Resolution 278 directs the Chief Justice to convene a committee to design a new court model that intercepts veterans who get into trouble with the law and redirects them to intensive treatment. [...]
Nearly two out of three poll participants indicate that the new Healthcare Reform law is too expensive and predict it will mean more fiscal pain for taxpayers. “Do you think the health care legislation will cost the government too much?” asks a USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted March 26-28, 2010. Of the 1,033 respondents, 63 percent [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama returned to Iowa today, March 25, 2010, to sell his healthcare reform package. On a cold, winter January night in 2007, then presidential candidate Obama, first introduced his ideas on healthcare reform to an Iowa constituency. Two days ago, President Obama signed a “middle-of-the-road”, as he describes it, health insurance reform [...]
This morning, March 23, 2010 at 11:55 am EST, U.S. President Barack Obama, surrounded by cheering Democrat congressional leaders, signed HR4872, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law. Democrat lawmakers in the room were giddy with exuberance as they chanted, “Fired up,” then echoed in chorus, “Ready to go!” “Today after almost a [...]
