After looking at all the health care benefits we'll get under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the promise of reasonably priced care, no one could be blamed for [...]
For better or worse, a health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was passed earlier this year. While the most significant modifications take place in 2014, the [...]
Most people have never heard of the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR), but that's about to change. It's an insurance company measure of how much of your health insurance premium is spent [...]
Increased rates for California's Anthem Blue Cross health insurance were approved last week. Blue Shields health insurance rate increases are expected to be approved shortly, as well. The Los Angeles Times, [...]
All during the health care reform debates, the raison d'etre most often given for passing the act was the number of people without health insurance. Proponents of the legislation laid the [...]
In the previous entry, Personal Health Records in Your Future, we pointed out the benefits of maintaining your own medical records. The personal health record (PHR) you would put together would [...]
In the previous blogs about medical records, we've pointed out that medical providers, by law, are required to replace paper-based patient records with electronic medical records (EMR) by 2015. This computer-based [...]
In our previous blog about Electronic Medical Record Concerns, we noted that using electronic medical records results in better care and saved lives primarily because the medical information is so easily [...]
Previously, we wrote that, by law, paper-based patient medical records kept by health providers are being replaced by electronic medical records. All medical facilities must make significant steps in that direction [...]
Does your doctor walk into the examining room with a folder with your name on the tab, stuffed with odd bits of paper, hand-written notes, old forms and ragged-edged test results? [...]
