HealthCare Whisperer: Recent Comments

Comment on Healthcare Navigation Tip#2: Insurance

2010-02-18T05:02:29Z

It is practical and useful information but there is one other important point which the insurance buyer should ensure is that the Insurance company should follow HIPAA norms. This will protect his or her confidential health information from unauthorised access.

Jason Gaya
http://www.empowerbpo.com/blog/

Comment on Chronic Pain Client Part TWO

2010-01-12T16:09:12Z

My website would help to remind people when their appointments, prescriptions, tests are due. This site helped me take care of my in-laws and reminded me when their medications were due. I am working with various organizations who are interested in my services. We are donating 15% of our sign ups to organizations listed on my site. Thanks Lauri

Comment on What happened to Lillian Wald's dream for the VNS?

2010-01-10T19:49:42Z

I am dumbfounded by the amount of parameters and exclusions that have fallen upon our providers.

Comment on Healthcare Reform: The Insurance Stimulus Package

2009-12-22T03:06:02Z

I don't agree. The Senate health bill offers major comprehensive reform. I think it's silly to criticize it for it's missing rather than to applaud it for what it contains. Think about it. Universal coverage -- paid for by increasing fees on those who can afford it to pay for those who can't. Insurance companies and health care providers will need to be managed, but that was not really the point of reform, so much as to provide universal coverage. Costs management is built in with the tax on high cost plans, which is significant if not popular. Cutting costs is not going to be popular no matter where you do it. Imagine telling all those doctors and labs that they can only be reimbursed for care with is supported by medical evidence. Make a list of your priorities and compare them with the details in this bill. If anger at insurance companies is higher than universal coverage, we have a problem.

Comment on Nurse Practitioner VS AMA

2009-12-13T04:59:07Z

I also did not like the tone of the article toward NPs. I understand that we are not the same as a medical doctor and I don't pretend to be. I just want doctors to realize that we do just a good a job as they do in most cases. I think most doctors that have an issue with us have never really worked with us before.

Comment on Nurse Practitioners in Healthcare Reform

2009-12-11T19:07:39Z

I have found a number of articles which include salient and timely information which is not sifting down to the popular press. I am an NP in an underserved area in southwest Arkansas and there is not enough of me to go around. I am constantly reading, learning and applying new clinical expertise in my shared practiced with a semi-retired physician and believe me the morbidity and mortality in the community is low as a result. We see and do it all but the greatest need is teaching trust and partnership in health care among a population who are inundated with confusing information in the popular press and who try manage themselves accordingly without consulting a physcian who knows THEIR history and THEIR level of understanding. It is an art guys - let's remember to send folks for an EXAM. Can't be it and technology will never replace it. We do need all the help we can get though and guided education is the path to enlightenment and well being. can't underestimate the wisdom and value of LISTENING to folks explain their own rationale for behaving and doing as they do .... finances and tradition figure high in the mix for determining a course of action. We can work with them and accomodated dearly held beliefs or challenge them with EVIDENCE in terms they can understand. At any rate it takes a village - but somebody has to stop the buck.

Comment on Welcome to The Healthcare Whisperer Blog!

2009-10-28T11:00:25Z

That’s great, I never thought about Healthcare like that before.

Comment on Nurse Practitioners: Be a Voice in Health Technology

2009-09-29T04:46:38Z

I'm just starting out as an advocate (after years as a nurse, college prof, and nurse educator). I've enjoyed the information in your blog and read with interest your comments about Health 2.0 and the SF conference next week. After reading through the many speakers they will have and products being endorsed, I'm wondering if you personally find any particular data bases more helpful than others as a resource tool to use with your clients?

Janet - Thanks for your comment. In terms of medical information, I have found that most of the programs written are from the same companies that sell the information to the sites like WebMD,Mayo etc. So the information is the same. The information is all evidence based and no outside the box thinking. It gives the basics only. I often use sites like Lymphoma or other specific disease sites to get to the peer pages. Some offer insight and answer questions not listed in general medical sites. I like the NIH for research info and many of the federal .gov sites. I find the sites like icyou.com which is a video site offer patients some answers.

I will be posting on my blog during the conference. Stay tuned! Also you can follow me on twitter @ harik108

Hope this has helped. Hari

Comment on Nurse Practitioners in Healthcare Reform

2009-08-23T19:33:21Z

Thanks for the information. It is always exciting to find NPs being more accepted!

Comment on Nurse Practitioners in Healthcare Reform

2009-08-23T18:34:48Z

There is more acceptance of NPs as primary providers, however. As example, the online service www.housedoc.us recently added NPs as medical providers with whom patients can communicate on line, similarly to doctors.