WorkLight says that consumers - particularly in the US - are turning to Web 2.0-enabled online healthcare, as healthcare providers realize the cost advantages of using "Healthcare 2.0" technology. A recent industry report confirms that over 60 million adults are now using Web 2.0 for healthcare in the United States.

Have Stalinist healthcare system, get Stalinist healthcare rationing. "Appalling standards of care have been exposed at Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals trust, where between 400 and 1200 more patients died than would be expected in just three years, according to a damning report by the Healthcare Commission." I think we can see where this one's going already. "It is not clear how many patients die...

The union of doctors is challenging the Healthcare Commission over its yearly report to parliament, saying it is publishing misleading statistics.

A project to increase local access to healthcare is piloted in eight pharmacies around Scotland.

Just caught up with another excellent post from Mike Denham over at Burning our Money. He has been taking a look at the latest annual report from the Healthcare Commission. Or, to lapse into today’s mandatory quango-jargon, and use the official title, the “Annual Healthcheck”. Mike Denham’s anger about the Healthcare Commission is primarily motivated by the flagrant waste of taxpayer’s m...

President Barack Obama's reforms will help the US Medicare system remain solvent for longer than previously estimated, according to the annual report of the public healthcare programme's trustees

Leading congressional Republicans said they would seek to cut taxes and repeal the healthcare reform bill, and a prominent congressman has attacked the Fed' campaign of easing monetary policy

Barack Obama's healthcare reform, the signature policy of his presidency, looks likely to clear its most formidable obstacle by Christmas.

The union of doctors is challenging the Healthcare Commission over its yearly report to parliament, saying it is publishing misleading statistics.

Barrack Obama has just given a speech on healthcare to the US congress. His two pillars of healthcare reform, as they are being called, are insuring the uninsured and lowering healthcare costs. Here are some of the policies he laid out: Banning insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of you having a pre-existing condition Banning insurance companies from dropping or watering down yo...