When we buy an item or service, the company that sells it to us wants us to buy it. They make money when we buy it. With healthcare it is different. The head of a healthcare company has one job, to make money. The way to make more money in healthcare is to provide LESS [...]

Patient doctor privacy is big with people. they want to front doctors 40 thousand to start electronic records, isn’t this to much intrusion, and why is this in the health care bill?

[LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER] “Your health records on sale block” ‘Critic says patient consent unneeded in stimulus plan’ Posted: March 27, 2009, 7:50 pm Eastern | By Bob Unruh © 2009 WorldNetDaily http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93084 The head of the Institute for Health Freedom says now is the time for American residents to rise up if they want [...]

You may well have asked yourself the question, do I need private healthcare? After all, there is always the National Health Service and you already pay for that with your national insurance. Well, of course, this is correct and we all have access to the NHS but with long waiting lists and reports of some [...]

GOVERNMENT PROVIDES THEM A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY TO SUPPORT THEIR HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE. AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY HAVE SOME OF THE MOST ADVANCED CAPABILITIES OF STATE AND LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS IN THE ARENA OF PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY. ONE OF THE KEY DELIVERABLES OF THIS PROCESS IS THE MINIMUM [...]

Marc Kirshbaum discusses the need for patients to be able to safely share private information with properly authenticated persons over the internet to improve care.