Employers are starting to get crushed under the weight of escalating health care costs. Some of them, say the leading 20%, have said, and I quote Twisted Sister, they’re not gonna take it anymore. Just for the record, my grandma’s cousin’s husband’s brother is the lead guitarist for Twisted Sister so maybe that’s my excuse. […]

Specialty drugs that run through pharmacy benefit managers will soon comprise 50% of pharmacy budgets, even though they represent a small number of Rx’s taken by a small number of patients. Vested interests in the industry have a stake in seeing that this trend continues, as their share price depends on current profit margins and […]

Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin. It’s sometimes called a distributed ledger, which is just a fancy way of saying that everybody in the blockchain network has a ledger on their computer, and every time a transaction occurs, every copy of the ledger on everyone’s computer gets updated. Why is that interesting in healthcare? The […]

A lot of talk lately about healthcare consumerism and the possibility that consumerism can counter the outrageous escalation of healthcare costs in this country. Many people think Medicare is the largest healthcare payer, but that would be wrong. It’s actually out-of-pocket expenses that patients are paying. Patients are the biggest healthcare payers in this country. […]

Prescription errors cause patient harm, that’s indisputable, and the literature is filthy with examples of all kinds of variations on the theme. Today I speak with MedAware CEO & Co-Founder, Dr. Gidi Stein. MedAware is laser focused on eliminating prescription errors using AI/Machine Learning to flag mistakes in real-time. His system is 80% effective, exponentially […]