National Space Biomedical Research Institute chooses Louisville for national accelerator grant announcement Tuesday, Jun 11 2013 

Bob Saunders and Health Care and ideafestival and iHub and Kris Kimmel and Mayor Greg Fischer and Research and Space Tango and Start-up/entrepreneurism and Technology and Ted Smith and XLerate Health Melissa Chipman 1:00 pm

In the Monday Morning Business Brief, the most exciting scoop we had for you was the joint announcement by NASA, XLerateHealth and Louisville’s Department of Economic Growth and Innovation. Today, iHub hosted the press conference to make the official announcement. And the announcement was both as exciting as we thought it to be and a [...]

 

Humana Guidance Center: Zumba, Tai Chi and face-to-face insurance/Medicare counseling … free! Tuesday, Jun 4 2013 

Community and Health Care and Humana and HumanaVitality and JenCare and News Melissa Chipman 1:00 pm

Anyone who has undergone a medical crisis knows that insurance issues (or lack-of-insurance issues) can sometimes cause more pain than the injury or disease. If you’re a client of Humana’s, Louisville has something to help make that a little bit better. And “a little bit better” can mean a heck of a lot to people [...]

 

NYTimes: Americans pay through the nose for ordinary health care, by far the most expensive in the world Sunday, Jun 2 2013 

Health Care and Jewish Hospital Medical Center East and New York Times and News and Opinion Terry Boyd 9:51 am

Early in May, I broke my left wrist, tripping on the sidewalk while taking photos. At least I think I broke my wrist. I’ll never really know. I made the mistake of going to Jewish Hospital Medical Center East, where I sat for more than an hour even though the emergency room wasn’t busy. A [...]

 

Physicians And Big PHARMA “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” Tuesday, May 28 2013 

Big Pharma and Health Care Hillbilly 4:12 pm

Click here to read the Oregon State University, Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Washington report entitled:  "Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Lessons Learned from a Pharma-Free Practice Transformation."

Science Daily
A new report suggests that improved health care and significant reductions in drug costs might be attained by breaking up the age-old relationship between physicians and drug company representatives who promote the newest, more costly and often unnecessary prescription drugs. Read more.

 

IdeaFestival 2013 adds six new speakers to an already diverse lineup Thursday, May 23 2013 

Arts and Entertainment and Business and Community and Education and Environment/Green and General Electric and Health Care and ideafestival and media and music, and News and Start-up/entrepreneurism and Technology Melissa Chipman 1:00 pm

IdeaFestival has added six new speakers to the 2013 lineup. They will be joining already announced speakers including GE’s Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock, architect Lance Hosey and food artist Elaine Tin Nyo. IdeaFestival brings together thought-leaders across many disciplines for a three-day event that explores how ideas shape our future. This year’s IdeaFestival will [...]

 

Political illusions and cheap tricks: The wrong medicine for Kentucky’s Medicaid malady Thursday, May 9 2013 

Affordable Care Act and Bluegrass Institute and Gov. Steve Beshear and Guest Bloggers and Health Care and Medicaid and News and Opinion Guest Bloggers 5:00 pm

(Editor’s note: Gov. Steve Beshear confirmed today that Kentucky will expand Medicaid enrollment under the Affordable Care Act.) By Jim Waters, Bluegrass Institute More than 324 years after architect Sir Christopher Wren constructed fake pillars at Windsor Town Hall near London to satisfy building inspectors, tourists remain fascinated with the good-for-nothing posts. The story goes that [...]

 

Sources: Gov. Beshear will announce Thursday he’s expanding Medicaid under Obamacare Wednesday, May 8 2013 

Gov. Steve Beshear and Health Care and Medicaid and News Terry Boyd 5:03 pm

On one side, Kentucky’s Republicans have been lobbying Gov. Steve Beshear not to buckle and expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act. On the other side, health care providers have been lobbying the governor to expand Medicaid, which could add as many as 400,000 people to the 830,000 Kentuckians covered under the federal/state program [...]

 

Idea Mornings: Dr. Rajeev Bais on ‘Compassion and Survivors of Torture’ Thursday, Apr 25 2013 

Chris Cprek and Community and Health Care and Idea Mornings and International relations and J.K. McKnight and Jason D'Mello and Judge Angela McCormick Bisig Melissa Chipman 1:00 pm

If you’re not a morning person, 7:30 a.m. might as well be 4:30 a.m. But, if just one day a month you can manage to set the timer on your coffee maker, lay out your duds in advance and eschew that last little bit of sleep, the last Friday of the month should be that [...]

 

Get out the vote: Medical News’ first popular poll for MediStar Consumer First award ends Thursday Tuesday, Apr 23 2013 

Ben Keaton and Health Care and Medical News and MediStar Awards and News Terry Boyd 4:00 pm

The Medical News, Louisville’s newspaper for the medical community, is getting ready to have its 7th Annual MediStar Awards, scheduled for one month from today. And if you hurry, you can be one of the hundreds of people who help select the winner of the 2013 Medical News’ Consumer First Award, the first year winners will [...]

 

‘God of Carnage’ production raises money for pediatric cancer Thursday, Apr 11 2013 

Arts and Entertainment and Community and Health Care and kids and Kids Acting Against Cancer and News Niki King 7:30 am

  Kids Acting Against Cancer, a nonprofit theater troupe that performs theatrical productions to raise money for pediatric cancer research, will be performing the Tony-winning comedy “God of Carnage” April 12 -14 in the MeX Theater of the Kentucky Center for the Arts. KAAC is run entirely by kids ages 10 to 25 and 100 percent of [...]

 

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