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NYT > Health
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As Smartphones Become Health Aids, Ads May Follow
Posted: April 2nd, 2012, 2:07pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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In addition to tracking health symptoms, smartphone owners frequently downloaded apps to help manage their eating, drinking and exercise, and advertisers have noticed.
NYT > Business
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Epic Systems, Digitizing Health Records Before It Was Cool
Posted: January 15th, 2012, 12:21am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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In the growing business of electronic medical records, Epic Systems is far from a newcomer: it started more than 30 years ago, and now helps keep track of 40 million patients.
NYT > Health
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Epic Systems, Digitizing Health Records Before It Was Cool
Posted: January 15th, 2012, 12:21am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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In the growing business of electronic medical records, Epic Systems is far from a newcomer: it started more than 30 years ago, and now helps keep track of 40 million patients.
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Doctors Discover the Benefits of Business School
Posted: September 6th, 2011, 3:14am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Once there were five or six joint M.D./M.B.A. programs at the nation’s universities, but now there are 65 as more doctors realize health care is a business.
NYT > Business
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Breaches Lead to Push to Protect Medical Data
Posted: May 31st, 2011, 7:36am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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The Department of Health and Human Services is using existing rules to enforce medical privacy, but some wonder if stronger laws are needed.
NYT > Health
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Breaches Lead to Push to Protect Medical Data
Posted: May 31st, 2011, 7:36am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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The Department of Health and Human Services is using existing rules to enforce medical privacy, but some wonder if stronger laws are needed.
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The New Old Age: Portrait of Parkinson’s Disease
Posted: May 12th, 2011, 11:25am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A new type of brain scan may help accurately identify Parkinson's disease, but it will not be cheap and effective therapies are still lacking.
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Studying Aging, and Fearing Budget Cuts
Posted: February 22nd, 2011, 12:45am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Dr. Richard J. Hodes has been the director of the institute for 17 years.Dr. Richard J. Hodes, the director of the National Institute on Aging, weighs the research his lab is doing in a time of fiscal pressure.
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Prescriptions: Health Care Is High Among Web Searches
Posted: February 1st, 2011, 9:23am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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The latest Pew study shows many people are trying to learn about medical diseases that involve pain.
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Panel Set to Study Safety of Electronic Patient Data
Posted: December 14th, 2010, 12:40am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A panel created by the Institute of Medicine to study patient safety and health information technology will meet for the first time on Tuesday.
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Wired Up at Home to Monitor Illnesses
Posted: November 22nd, 2010, 3:17pm EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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As an aging population threatens to overwhelm America’s hospitals and doctors, thousands of seriously ill patients are relying on computerized health trackers.
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Prescriptions: Life Spans of the Elderly
Posted: November 4th, 2010, 1:33pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A new study shows that while elderly Americans are sicker than their British counterparts, they tend to live longer.
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The New Landscape: Preparing to Care for an Aging Population
Posted: June 29th, 2010, 12:40am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Marilyn Lopez, center, and Anessa Uretsky, right, N.Y.U. nurses in geriatrics, with a patient, Geraldine Goldsmith.Seventy million Americans will have turned 65 by 2030, and doctors and nurses are struggling to deal with an explosive growth in high-risk older patients.
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Despite Aging Baby Boomers, N.I.H. Devotes Only 11 Percent to Elderly Studies
Posted: June 28th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A geriatric tidal wave does not appear to have been fully recognized at the National Institutes of Health.
NYT > Business
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Healing by 2-Way Video: The Rise of Telemedicine
Posted: May 29th, 2010, 4:47pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Advances in video technology and a need to reduce medical costs have made interactive telemedicine a growing business.
NYT > Health
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In Haiti, Practicing Medicine From Afar
Posted: February 8th, 2010, 10:49pm EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A video hookup between a patient on the scene and a doctor far away can save lives.
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Tool in Cystic Fibrosis Fight: A Registry
Posted: December 22nd, 2009, 12:43pm EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Caroline Castonguay reports to a medical team that includes a physician, nurse, social worker, nutritionist and a clinical research coordinator.Many cystic fibrosis patients owe their lives, at least in part, to a nationwide collection of profiles called a patient registry.
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For Outsiders, Opening Doors to Health Care
Posted: August 20th, 2009, 12:47am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Colin Ford, director of corporate strategy at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, chats with Eileen Shearer, a nurse. A former ESPN producer, Mr. Ford took graduate courses in public health before changing fields.Hospitals have added thousands of jobs, even as unemployment has soared. Workers in other fields use degrees and certifications to make the leap to health care.
NYT > Business
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And You Thought a Prescription Was Private
Posted: August 8th, 2009, 5:54pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Prescriptions and the information on them are bought and sold in a murky marketplace, often without the patients’ knowledge or permission.
NYT > Health
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And You Thought a Prescription Was Private
Posted: August 8th, 2009, 5:54pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Prescriptions and the information on them are bought and sold in a murky marketplace, often without the patients’ knowledge or permission.
NYT > Business
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Hospitals Begin to Move Into Supermarkets
Posted: May 12th, 2009, 1:20am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Many hospitals see walk-in clinics at retail stores as a source of paying patients and a marketing opportunity.
NYT > Health
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As Medical Charts Go Electronic, Rural Doctor Sees Healthy Change
Posted: April 11th, 2009, 12:49pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A family doctor in rural Kansas says her switch to electronic records has greatly improved her productivity.
NYT > Business
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Noted Rater of Restaurants Brings Its Touch to Medicine
Posted: February 16th, 2009, 2:03am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Partnering with the insurer Wellpoint, Zagat will allow patients to post reviews of doctors, some of whom are not impressed with the idea.
NYT > Health
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Noted Rater of Restaurants Brings Its Touch to Medicine
Posted: February 16th, 2009, 2:03am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Partnering with the insurer Wellpoint, Zagat will allow patients to post reviews of doctors, some of whom are not impressed with the idea.
NYT > Business
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Employers Offer Workers Fewer Health Care Plans
Posted: November 15th, 2008, 12:51am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Many workers are finding that the buffet of options in their medical plans has been trimmed to a very short menu.
NYT > Health
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Employers Offer Workers Fewer Health Care Plans
Posted: November 15th, 2008, 12:51am EST by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Many workers are finding that the buffet of options in their medical plans has been trimmed to a very short menu.
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Building Better Bodies
Posted: October 1st, 2008, 12:22am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Can’t afford sick workers? In one Michigan town, small companies are paying more to keep them well.
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Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors’ Fees
Posted: July 21st, 2008, 3:08am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Paying physicians to devote more time to their patients, insurers hope to scale back costly treatments later.
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Medicare Plans Affected by Rising Drug Costs
Posted: April 19th, 2008, 1:46am EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Driven in part by specialty drugs, the prices of medicines heavily used by the elderly have risen more than 24 percent since June 2006, two senior health economists at Harvard reported.
NYT > Business
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Paid to Control Drug Costs, Yet Pushing Some Prices Higher
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 6:26pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A growing portion of some drug benefit managers’ revenue comes from being exclusive or semi-exclusive distributors of expensive specialty drugs.
NYT > Health
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Paid to Control Drug Costs, Yet Pushing Some Prices Higher
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 6:26pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A growing portion of some drug benefit managers’ revenue comes from being exclusive or semi-exclusive distributors of expensive specialty drugs.
NYT > Home Page
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Paid to Control Drug Costs, Yet Pushing Some Prices Higher
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 6:26pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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A growing portion of some drug benefit managers’ revenue comes from being exclusive or semi-exclusive distributors of expensive specialty drugs.
NYT > Health
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Aetna to Offer an Online Service That Helps Patients Link Records and Research
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 3:09pm EDT by By MILT FREUDENHEIM
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Aetna plans to provide the service, SmartSource, free to its customers, saying it wants to help people manage their own health care.