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OptumHealth Launching Online NowClinic – Video Consultations for Patients and Physicians

15 hours ago ago from The Medical Quack

I have added a bit of text from my post back in June of 2009 below about this service which was a pretty complete go through with what was posted at that time. You can enroll as either a patient or a doctor to participate. If enrolling as a physician there will be some stipulations and processes to go through to get set up. OptumHealth also have their own PHR (personal health records) program and I am guessing this is where the information ...

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Reflections on the State of Online Health

23 hours ago ago from eDocAmerica

As 2009 draws to a close, the US health care system is ailing and quasi-reform proposals are frantically being debated and voted on. Although some type of reform is likely in 2010, we will have only scratched the surface of what still needs to be changed. One particular aspect relates to the ease with which patients can use the internet to improve their health care. At eDoc, we've been using the internet to improve the health of our users for ...

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16 hours ago ago from phyzoom

Happy holidays to you and yours!  Here's our weekly edition of Phyzoom's Physician Practice Marketing Tips of the Week. Going off of our previous post about patients shopping for the best healthcare prices, physicians, especially in Ohio, should be aware of a new website from the Ohio Department of Health Ohio Hospital Compare that will provide extensive quality and pricing information from hospitals within the state.  The site will show ...

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What’s wrong with more interventional cardiologists in Miami?

17 hours ago ago from Glorfindel of Gondolin

An opinion piece in today's NYT: FOR anyone who has had to wait a long time to schedule a medical appointment, it might seem as if the world needs more doctors, and that training more of them would be a good idea. An amendment that teaching hospitals are pushing to include in the health care legislation before a final vote is taken in the Senate and the House would do just that. It would add 15,000 medical residency slots to the 100,000 ...

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Medicine’s Ethical Responsibility for Health Care Reform — The Top Five List

7 hours ago ago from SainTis

Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D Early in 2009, members of major health care–related industries such as insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device makers, and hospitals all agreed to forgo some future profits to show support for the Obama administration’s health care reform efforts. Skeptics have questioned the value of these promises, regarding at least some of them as more cosmetic than substantive. Nonetheless, these ...

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Scott Gottlieb: What Doctors and Patients Have to Lose Under ObamaCare

8 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

Democrats are touting the American Medical Association's endorsement of President Obama's health plan. But there's an important reason why the American College of Surgeons and 18 other specialty groups are opposed. The plan's most tangible efforts to restrain medical costs are through its controls on specialist physicians. Based on the government's premise that they often make wasteful treatment decisions, the health-care legislation in ...

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J&J spent nearly $1.7M lobbying government in 3Q

12 hours ago ago from U.S. News

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