Considering Obamacare has nothing to do with creating better healthcare and everything to do with garnering control and power, what will happen to innovation in medicine once the US goes down the rabbit hole of government healthcare? From Philip Klein at AMSPECBLOG – The Threat to Medical Innovation (h/t Redstate) Raymond Raad, a resident in psychiatry at

One of the most important and fastest growing forms of electronic medical records (EMR) today is image data created from a growing variety of radiology devices. X-Rays, CT Scans, MRI, PET Scans, Ultrasound and others are producing an explosion of digital imagery in 2D, 3D and yes, recently even 4D. For example, if you have never heard of fMRI think of 3D time lapse photography for the brain; one ...

... proposed that with cost control one could spread the healthcare net wider and make it accessible to the less privileged ... held in September 2009. This conference on frugal innovation in healthcare is a continuation of that drive to make relevant ... reinforce the mediclaim schemes of the Government which make the healthcare facilities for the people of Goa the very best in the country and comparable ...

... ; Dr. Shetty says. "What health care needs is process innovation, not product innovation." At his flagship, 1,000-bed Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital, ... the sort of thing I'm talking about when I refer to market reform of healthcare. Neither I, nor anyone else has to come up with all the answers, indeed, we couldn't possibly do so. That is for a market, full of enterprising, profit- ...

... Development Helene F. Rutledge (GSK Consumer Healthcare) - Director of Open Innovations Hutch Carpenter ( ... a discussion with participants about identifying the barriers to innovation that can cripple the innovation capabilities that make organizations successful. ... -939-2500. After the workshop I will be covering the rest of the Open Innovation Summit on Twitter as @innovate at the hashtag #OIS09, ...

... nbsp;which are all-too-often caused during the course of a routine healthcare visit, medical procedure or treatment ... Health Care is on the forefront of protecting patients from Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and has put together a site dedicated ... versus combat, trends, analysis, imagination, innovation, introspection, exponentialism and the mastermind, exponentiality, predicting ...

... Group (UNH) in my Oct 25 article. Following are major healthcare companies in other subsectors inside the health care sector, ... companies to boost their pipelines. BiotechBiotechnology probably offers the best level of innovation of any of the healthcare industries. Its P/E is low too. ... P/E of 12 and beta of 0.69, healthcare might be a great defensive sector. For those who need stable income, big ...

... wine under my belt I felt no shame in getting to my point quickly so I started with healthcare. As of now I am unemployed and carrying only a major medical policy and I prefaced my ... ;d like to think the conversation turned away because he knows he just hit it out of the park for my team. Innovation. Could you imagine if the government dictated what we pulled our drift boats around on? Every ...

... human and physical capital and the productivity of both as enhanced by technical innovation. A growing labor force, in the absence of rising per-capita capital formation and of innovation with a broad multiplier effect on productivity, results in the 17.5% broad ... key issue in recent years has been the exponential growth in healthcare costs, now eating up 18% of GDP, or over twice the levels in ...

... Or do you just have these teams in place because all of your competition is doing the same? True and genuine innovation only occurs when people come in contact with individuals from a different background and when they have ... of Mash-Ups? Interweaving wireless technologies with search engines. Integrating healthcare knowledge with data mining and analytics frameworks. Marketing luxury car brands at ...

... (Executive Office of Health and Human Services) for example, people who work for Healthcare for All, for example, or the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). And me. ... life there (in 2005), and yet the small areas of human dignity and innovation he found that were evident everywhere. He used this as an example of how we in that room could build great new systems even ...

... while creating inequities for the unemployed and self-employed. A regulatory morass limits innovation. And deep flaws in Medicare and Medicaid drive spending without optimizing care. ... value. Worse, currently proposed federal legislation would undermine any potential for real innovation in insurance and the provision of care. It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the service ...

... . Worse, currently proposed federal legislation would undermine any potential for real innovation in insurance and the provision of care. It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the ... more participants. This will make an eventual solution even more difficult. All too confusing this healthcare reform is.  So, as always, I turned to the only real source of news and wisdom ...

... at risk for to accurately and quickly diagnose (and then treat) them even if located far from a sleep lab which studies kids, while reducing inconvenience for children and their families, and costs for the healthcare system as a whole. This is exactly the kind of innovation we are so in need of.  

... pulpit and taken over the microphone. The new mantra is: "People need to start seeing healthcare as a luxury, not a necessity!" *facepalm* I just find that insultingly one-dimensional, ... live in Free-market economy based on Libertarian ideals and reward for entrepreneurship and innovation: if you can think of a way to make a buck--a way to build a better mousetrap, you win. Go you! This ...