April 23, 2024
Healthcare
Blurred lines: Health providers and insurers move into each other's turf
In today's health care landscape, the old “fee for service” model in which insurance companies pay providers for each individual procedure a consumer needs is giving way. In its place, a value-based or pay-for-performance approach is emerging in which insurers pay providers a set amount to care for each insured patient.
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Published on 11/24/2015
Florida Is the state with the 3rd-highest uninsured rate post-Obamacare
With the third open-enrollment period for health insurance upon us and 11.7 percent of the U.S. population still lacking coverage, the personal finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2015's States with the Highest & Lowest Uninsured Rates.
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Published on 11/10/2015
Stemming Florida's physician shortage
Attracting younger physicians to Florida could help close health care access gaps and improve the state economy, according to a report from taxpayer watchdog Florida TaxWatch. The report calls for increasing the number of Graduate Medical Education programs, more commonly known as medical residencies, to attract additional doctors.
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Published on 10/29/2015
UF receives $17.5 million to speed discoveries toward better health
The University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute has been awarded $17.5 million from the National Institutes of Health's Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA, program) to continue to pave the way for a swifter and more collaborative journey from research to improved health in the nation's third largest state. Florida State University joins UF as a community research partner on the four-year award.
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Published on 10/29/2015
FIU to examine substance use in youths as part of national landmark study on brain development
The National Institutes of Health has awarded FIU $12.7 million as part of a multi-year national landmark study on substance use and adolescent brain development. The award, for the first five-year cycle of the research study, is the single largest NIH award ever received by FIU faculty.
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Published on 9/29/2015
Pain patients say they can't get medicine after crackdown on illegal Rx drug trade
Until a few years ago, Florida was considered the epicenter for the trafficking of illegal prescription narcotics. The DEA and local law enforcement shut down more than 250 so-called “pill mills” — clinics where doctors could sell narcotics directly to people for cash. Now Florida doctors can no longer dispense narcotics directly to patients. Wholesalers, who paid to settle claims for failing to report suspicious orders of drugs, now limit the amount they sell to pharmacies.
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Published on 8/6/2015
Medicare turns 50 but big challenges await
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, has come a long way since its creation in 1965 when nearly half of all seniors were uninsured. Now the program covers 55 million people, providing insurance to one in six Americans.
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Published on 7/30/2015
New Life: Heart transplants in Florida
At any given moment, about 250 Floridians are waiting for a new heart.
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Published on 6/26/2015
Cancer Care: Statewide efforts
Florida treatment centers are stepping up efforts to help patients recover quickly.
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Published on 4/28/2015
Cancer Care: X-ray visionaries
Fort Myers-based 21st Century Oncology has grown from one location in 1981 to become the nation's largest provider of radiation therapy.
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Published on 4/28/2015
Brain trust: Florida research groups target Alzheimer's
This article looks at the ground-breaking work being done at Roskamp by Fiona Crawford, President and CEO, along with Daniel Paris, head of research and development, and 50 other scientists in an old contact lens manufacturing building.
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Published on 2/26/2015
Why Florida Is No. 1 In Obamacare Enrollment Despite GOP Opposition
Florida is leading the nation in signing people up for private Obamacare health plans. With two weeks to go until the deadline for 2015 enrollment, Florida's tally exceeds that of even Democrat-led California, which has embraced the law building its own online marketplace and has twice the population and uses three times as much federal funding for outreach.
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Published on 2/2/2015
Moments of Truth: A look at the Human Performance Institute
The Human Performance Institute in Orlando has built on expertise training top athletes to become a leading health and wellness provider to executives at Fortune 500 companies.
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Published on 12/26/2014
Tavistock Development Company breaks ground on GuideWell Innovation Center
State-of-the-art facility brings first incubation wet lab space to Lake Nona.
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Published on 10/30/2014
Why Florida should embrace medical tourism
Already a capital of global tourism, Florida has an opportunity to bring even more tourists and more revenue to the state by investing in medical tourism, according to an independent analysis by Florida TaxWatch.
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Published on 10/30/2014
Health care transparency in Florida
Many insurers and hospitals say they like the idea of transparency, but not many are going out of their way to make it happen.
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Published on 10/28/2014
Women's heart health
The state's medical community is stepping up efforts to educate women about heart disease, which has become the No. 1 cause of death for women.
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Published on 8/28/2014
Maintaining peak performance at Florida health centers
Florida's executive health centers make sure business leaders have the tools to maintain peak physical performance.
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Published on 6/27/2014
Medical marijuana: Smoke, no mirrors
As medical marijuana heads to the ballot in Florida, Ben Pollara isn't taking anything for granted as he spearheads an effort to get the measure passed.
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Published on 5/28/2014
Progress in the crusade against cancer
The number of deaths from all cancers is generally down across the state.
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Published on 4/30/2014
Florida cancer center profiles
What's in the works at Orlando Health, Mayo Clinic, Baptist Health Sout Florida, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Moffitt Cancer Center and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Published on 4/30/2014
Florida's growing Alzheimer's population requires more research
Special report, "Florida's Looming Alzheimer's Crisis," calls for additional research into Alzheimer's to prepare for the state's aging population and to seek a viable preventative treatment.
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Published on 4/4/2014
Nurse practitioners caught between a doc and a hard place
A doctor in the Florida Legislature hopes to relax Florida's strict limits on what nurse practitioners can and can't do.
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Published on 3/31/2014
Executive health: A decade by decade guide
Health concerns change as patients get older. Florida's leading doctors recommend taking specific actions during your 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s.
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Published on 1/2/2014
