Health Care in the Information Age: Why the Consumer is King - Better informed, more demanding consumers are transforming the US healthcare industry. To thrive in this stubbornly difficult business, health plan companies must offer options customized to individual needs.
Publisher: Accenture     Author: James B. Hudak   

HIPAA’s Privacy and Electronic Transaction Standards: Employer Implications Report - Employers will experience the effects of the new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations regarding health care privacy protections and health information transmittals in a number of ways.
Publisher: Deloitte & Touche     Author: Deloitte & Touche   

Honey, I Shrunk the HMO! - The next generation of preventive medicine is in the hands of nanobots.
Publisher: Wired.com     Author: Niall McKay   

How Large Employers Are Shaping the Health Care Marketplace (First of Two Parts) - The revolutionaries are not the downtrodden -- low-income and disabled patients or underpaid hospital and nursing home workers. The revolutionaries are America's multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 companies.
Publisher: The New England Journal of Medicine     Author: Thomas Bodenheimer, Kip Sullivan   

Innovation to Go - Sometimes, it's the people who come late to a technology that push the envelope. Here's how firefighters and doctors learned to love their PDAs and became the apostles of the mobile economy.
Publisher: Fast Company     Author: Fara Warner   

Leveraging New Information Channels to Physicians - Pharmaceutical companies have relied on essentially the same sales model for many years: a sales representative meets with a physician to provide information about the company's drug offerings, in hopes the physician will prescribe the product to patients.
Publisher: Accenture     Author: Melissa Krauth   

Medical Office Building Appraisal - There are numerous and significant differences between medical office buildings and standard office buildings that must be considered, researched, and addressed by appraisers.
Publisher: PricewaterhouseCoopers     Author: Randall Bell   

Multiple Chemical Sensitivities - Fact, Fiction, Disability & the Law - Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) - Fact or Fiction?
Publisher: The 'Lectric Law Library     Author: Gail Sullivan Restivo   

NHS capital expenditure and the private finance initiativeexpansion or contraction? - This is the first of four articles on Britain's public-private partnership in health care .
Publisher: British Medical Journal     Author: Gaffney; Pollock; Price; Shaoul   

Not so fast, it's regulated - Some of those dot.com folks think that all they have to do when setting up a health-related Web page is their technological wizardry and a willing doc. But they better understand that health sites are indeed regulated, in a number of ways. Before advising that dot.com, check the warnings in this article.
Publisher: Business Law Today     Author: Laura Keidan Martin