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Malpractice defense: Hysterectomy Leading to Vesicovaginal Fistula by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In addition to my consulting work and writing the Health Business Blog, I’m chairman of the board of Advanced Practice Strategies, a medical risk management firm that pr ... Read on »

Tales of the Grim Reaper from Montreal by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I go to Canada fairly frequently. Whenever I’m in a social gathering and people find out I work in health care, they have something to say. It’s usually something ... Read on »

Why not lower the recommended mammogram age to 30? or 20? by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The controversy over the recent mammogram screening recommendation from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is quite interesting. The pieces of the recom ... Read on »

A conversation with Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In May I interviewed Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion, a free web-based electronic health record (EHR). A lot has happened in the EHR world since then so I thought I’ ... Read on »

Pharmacogenomics: Podcast interview with Medco’s Felix Frueh (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of yesterday’s podcast interview with Medco’s Felix Frueh.David Williams: This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and autho ... Read on »

Grand Rounds is up at Colorado Insurance Insider by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Check out the latest edition of Grand Rounds at Colorado Health Insurance Insider.Share Read on »

Pharmacogenomics: Podcast interview with Medco’s Felix Frueh by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Medco Health Solutions and the American Medical Association sponsored a survey of 10,000 physicians in the US regarding pharmacogenomics (PGx). Almost all physicians think gen ... Read on »

Health care insurance reform by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I was interested to see this quote in today’s Boston Globe:President Obama, who was traveling to Asia yesterday, said in a statement that the report “underscores w ... Read on »

Safe, Legal, Funded. Oops! by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine From Politico:The Republican National Committee will no longer offer employees an insurance plan that covers abortion after POLITICO reported Thursday that the anti-abortion R ... Read on »

Routine HIV testing at the VA: Podcast interview with Dr. Henry Anaya (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of my podcast interview with Dr. Henry Anaya of the Veterans Health Administration.David Williams: This is David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Pa ... Read on »

Health Wonk Review is up by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is posted at Colorado Health Insurance Insider.Share Read on »

Podcast interview with Dr. John Hohneker of Novartis Oncology (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Dr. John Hohneker.David Williams: This is David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Heal ... Read on »

Grand Rounds is up at crzegrl, flight nurse by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Check out the latest edition of Grand Rounds at crzegrl, flight nurse.Share Read on »

Podcast interview with Dr. John Hohneker of Novartis Oncology by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It may be a jobless recovery overall but Novartis Oncology is doing its part to expand employment with a big hiring push. In this podcast interview, John Hohneker, MD, Senior ... Read on »

Podcast interview with Doctations CEO Dr. Louis Cornacchia by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Doctations is an integrated, Internet-based electronic medical record, billing system and collaboration platforms. The goal is to encourage collaboration among physicians and ... Read on »

Routine HIV testing at the VA: Podcast interview with Dr. Henry Anaya by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In 2006 the Centers for Disease Control recommended routine HIV testing for everyone aged 13-64. That’s a big change from the early days of the epidemic when barriers to ... Read on »

Health care: Giving it the old college try by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Wall Street Journal reports that more college students are looking to their schools for health care as parents lose jobs and coverage. College-sponsored health insurance a ... Read on »

Podcast interview with EmFinders CEO Jim Nalley (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of my interview with EmFinders CEO Jim Nalley.David Williams: This is David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Busin ... Read on »

Personalized Medicine for the Brain: A Call for Action by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine For a number of years I’ve worked with Brain Resource, a personalized medicine company with a revolutionary standardized, integrated database of the human brain. Recentl ... Read on »

Podcast interview with Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project co-chair Peter Lee (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Peter Lee.David Williams: This is David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Busin ... Read on »

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