Health System

This article points to some things I think we’re going to see much more of in the future: going outside the US for treatment and using the internet as health advisor. (Excerpted from AP article.) When Arnaud Durieux needed to get his teeth fixed about six months ago, the freelance Web designer caught a flight from New York to his ...

From Health-IT World: Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher, M.D., last week signed legislation to create a statewide electronic health information network and establish an academic research partnership that boosters say could become a foundation for national healthcare reform. The signing caps a four-year effort by Sen. Daniel Mongiardo, M.D., an otolaryngologist from the Appalachian town of Hazard, Ky., who is the ...

Excerpts from two articles relating to the high cost of health and aging in our future. Illness triggers half of bankruptcies Medical bills and illnesses are a major cause of roughly half of this country’s personal bankruptcies, according to the study published today on the Web site of the journal Health Affairs. Touted as the first in-depth analysis of medical ...

This NYTimes article says that eight of the heavies in the computer and softwared industry have agreed to adopt open standards for a health information network. So there’s hope of getting somewhere… Eight of the nation’s largest technology companies, including  I.B.M.,  Microsoft and  Oracle, have agreed to embrace open, nonproprietary technology standards as the software building blocks for a national ...