What is going on in the internet healthcare arena? During the past year we have heard and seen articles, news broadcasts, commercials, and numerous advertisements from companies such as Healtheon/WebMD, PlanetRX, DrKoop.com, Drugstore.com and others. These multi-billion dollar “health care” companies have been backed by major players such as Microsoft, Amazon.com and America Online, as
I have heard it time and time again at chiropractic conferences and lectures, “if they knew what we knew they would do what we do.”
Move over hospital-acquired infections, medical error has got you beat in the US. Today’s news feeds are reporting “Medical errors are the fifth leading cause of death in the US and cost about $29 billion a year.” This is based on information in a recent Institute of Medicine report. Officials are looking for answers to
On January 31, 2000, an Alaska Airline commercial plane crashed off the coast of California. 88 persons are feared dead in the jetliner crash. Within hours of the crash, news stations across the planet where reporting on the tragedy. There is probably not a single person reading this article that has not already seen several reports of the crash on television, in print, and on the internet. So why are we telling you about it now?
Reuters and Yahoo News report that HMO profitability declined sharply in 1998. The health maintenance organizations (HMOs) posted a collective net loss of $1.25 billion according to the report.If we continue to apply sick care to a healthy society, what do we expect to get?Dr. Ian Grassam said it over and over again, “they continue
What is going on in the internet healthcare arena? During the past year we have heard and seen articles, news broadcasts, commercials, and numerous advertisements from companies such as Healtheon/WebMD, PlanetRX, DrKoop.com, Drugstore.com and others. These multi-billion dollar “health care” companies have been backed by major players such as Microsoft, Amazon.com and America Online, as
I have heard it time and time again at chiropractic conferences and lectures, “if they knew what we knew they would do what we do.”
Move over hospital-acquired infections, medical error has got you beat in the US. Today’s news feeds are reporting “Medical errors are the fifth leading cause of death in the US and cost about $29 billion a year.” This is based on information in a recent Institute of Medicine report. Officials are looking for answers to
On January 31, 2000, an Alaska Airline commercial plane crashed off the coast of California. 88 persons are feared dead in the jetliner crash. Within hours of the crash, news stations across the planet where reporting on the tragedy. There is probably not a single person reading this article that has not already seen several reports of the crash on television, in print, and on the internet. So why are we telling you about it now?
Reuters and Yahoo News report that HMO profitability declined sharply in 1998. The health maintenance organizations (HMOs) posted a collective net loss of $1.25 billion according to the report.If we continue to apply sick care to a healthy society, what do we expect to get?Dr. Ian Grassam said it over and over again, “they continue