Insights on Diabetes Management, Courtesy of Health Canada
The Disease Management Care Blog has completed day 1 of 2 of the Health Canada conference on Diabetes Management Programs. While it certainly had much to say in its presentation, the real treat was hearing from the other speakers. Among the many insights are: While Canadians are patriots and are loyal to their government-dominated health [...]
Video: Why submit your research to the BMJ?
The BMJ has produced a short video to help you find out about getting research published there. It includes interviews with published authors and clips from some of the short films that accompany important research articles. Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, follow on Twitter and Buzz, and connect on Facebook.
Before the Internet was ready for prime time
—doctors were limited in terms of educational resources. Today webcasts are available on demand for the topic of your choosing. Back then docs relied on broadcast media like Physicians Radio Network (PRN) and Lifetime Medical Television. LMT ran all day every Sunday. I spent many a Sunday afternoon in the 80s and early 90s watching [...]
As predicted
Big deal. Here’s what I predicted last April, with regard to the negotiation between the state’s largest insurer and the state’s largest provider group: Look for the following “victory″ announcement in the coming months: The parties agree to experiment with bundled payments for certain diseases and procedures, staying far away, though, from a full system [...]
"Trouble Coming Every Day" as Discussed by our Fellow Health Care Skeptics
With apologies to the late Frank Zappa… even though we are going through the dog days of summer, the parade of health care troubles in the news is never ending, so I thought I would recap some of the more interesting issues discussed by some of my fellow health care skeptic bloggers. We have discussed the [...]
