healthcare

Fifty-eight percent of primary care doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with restrictions insurance companies place on their patients’ care, according to findings from the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey published online today in the [...]

Lack of health insurance might have led or contributed to nearly 17,000 deaths among hospitalized children in the United States in the span of less than two decades, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
According to the Hopkins researchers, the study, to be published Oct. 30 in the Journal of Public Health, [...]

Daniel Bates of The Daily Mail writes:
Professor Stephen Hawking has spoken out in defence of the NHS after high-level U.S. politicians have branded the National Health Service ‘evil’ and ‘Orwellian.’
The British professor, who has suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease for 40 years, insisted that he ‘would not be here’ were it not for the NHS.
He [...]

Lake Pointe Medical Center announced today that SMART Association, Inc. ("SMART") has successfully installed its new Smart card-based patient access system called "LifeMed" at the hospital.
The LifeMed Smart card software system has been developed for hospitals to quickly and accurately identify patients and help manage them through the admissions process. Patients with the Smart card [...]