• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

MassDevice

The Medical Device Business Journal — Medical Device News & Articles | MassDevice

  • Latest News
    • Cardiovascular
    • Orthopedics
  • Wall Street Beat
    • Funding Roundup
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Podcasts
    • MPR: Breakthrough Products Series
  • Resources
    • About MassDevice
    • Newsletter Signup
    • Job Board
    • Leadership in Medtech
    • Manufacturer Search
    • MedTech 100 Index
    • Videos
    • Whitepapers
  • DeviceTalks Tuesdays
    • DeviceTalks
  • Coronavirus: Live updates

Insurance

Money for nothing

March 25, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

Imagine paying $4,675 for a piece of paper. It would make the days of $436 military hammers look pretty cheap, wouldn’t it?

Now imagine that piece of paper comes with a promise of having to pay more for your own good and where time spent acquiring that paper meant nothing.  Most rational people would have visions of Bernie Madoff or some other Ponzi scheme.

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

Live video feeds at medical conferences

March 17, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

I woke this morning in a cold sweat as I found myself wrestling with a thought.

Am I Big Brother?

The explosion of social media in our society, and at medical meetings in particular, is changing how our society, and medical professionals in particular, work and interact.  There is potential for tremendous good: social media to market, to promote, to communicate rapidly, to effect change.

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

UnitedHealth tightens hysterectomy coverage

February 27, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

UnitedHealth places tighter controls on hysterectomies

Filed Under: Gynecological, News Well Tagged With: Insurance, UnitedHealth Group

Care pathways and their kin

January 30, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment



By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

Electronic medical record and the threat of physician skill fade

December 16, 2014 By MassDevice

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

As I watch the business world’s fascination with the electronic medical record (EMR) and all of the Big Data that it accumulates, I see more and more processes codified and treatment pathways carefully honed. Only one small thing remains until the computer can tell doctors how to behave based on the developed algorithms: to turn free text in the patient chart into easily-definable binary pushbutton selections, so now, this is being done.

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

Vignettes from a brief foray into knee surgery

December 5, 2014 By MassDevice

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

The phone rang one evening and a pleasant voice was on the other end. “Hi, my name is nurse So-and-so and I’m the educational coordinator for your upcoming knee surgery. Do you want to go to the patient orientation session?” she asked. “It’s very helpful to go over things before and after your surgery and to answer any questions you might have.”

I thought about this. The 11am session was right smack dab in the middle of my clinical day. But I thought it best to attend and agreed. 

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

My interview at AHA 2014 on ABIM’s Maintenance of Certification Program

November 21, 2014 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

The wonders of role reversal

November 20, 2014 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

Another day, another pacemaker, at least so it seemed at first.

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

Insurer owes Stryker $8m for Duracon Uni-Knee settlements

October 31, 2014 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

Insurer owes Stryker $8m for Duracon Uni-Knee settlements

Filed Under: Implants, Legal News, News Well, Orthopedics Tagged With: Insurance, Knees, Stryker, TIG Insurance Co., XL America Insurance

An insider’s guide to a health care policy white paper

October 2, 2014 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

Do you want to “raise awareness” of how physician quality and value information impacts health care decision making?   Do you want to spin your data via the Associated Press internationally?

Just have the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation pay for a survey!

We all know how great surveys are, especially when you design it to “raise awareness” for the low, low price of $604,454!

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

The last reprogramming

September 29, 2014 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC

Westby Fisher

He had called the other day to update me up on his condition. He did not sound upset, but resolute. “They offered me peritoneal dialysis,” he said, “but I decided against it and figured I’d just let nature take its course. The hospice people are so wonderful – I’ve got things all set here at home, but I have two questions. What should I do about my warfarin? You know, I just don’t want to have a stroke. And what I do about my defibrillator?”

Filed Under: Blog, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Dr. Wes, Insurance

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 13
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

MEDTECH 100 INDEX

Medtech 100 logo
Market Summary > Current Price
The MedTech 100 is a financial index calculated using the BIG100 companies covered in Medical Design and Outsourcing.
Need Medtech news in a minute?
We Deliver!

MassDevice Enewsletters get you caught up on all the mission critical news you need in med tech. Sign up today.

Tweets by @MassDevice
MDO ad

Footer

MASSDEVICE MEDICAL NETWORK

DeviceTalks
Drug Delivery Business News
Medical Design & Outsourcing
Medical Tubing + Extrusion

MASSDEVICE

Subscribe to MassDevice
Advertise with us
About
Contact us

Add us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on YouTube

Copyright © 2021 · WTWH Media LLC and its licensors. All rights reserved.
The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media.

Advertise | Privacy Policy | RSS