Health and Money Premium http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium RSS Feed for Health and Money Premium en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 11:30:00 GMT Integrative approach gives Kaiser edge in health care http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130518_Integrative_approach_gives_Kaiser_edge_in_health_care.html The Affordable Care Act is the primary manifesto of health care reform. While its primary focus is to facilitate increased access to the underserved, it is also designed to reduce the cost of health care and improve delivery. New effort by state could cause patients more pain http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130511_New_effort_by_state_could_cause_patients_more_pain.html The state Hawaii Department of Health recently announced that it will begin to link deaths from prescription drugs to the physicians who prescribed them ("Doctors targeted amid rise in painkiller deaths," Star-Advertiser, May 5). Knowledge, good intentions are key to business success http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130504__Knowledge_good_intentions_are_key_to_business_success.html Genuine success in business depends on knowing not only another's intentions, but also understanding one's own motivations, combined with the ability to appreciate the ramifications of an action over time. Shift to electronic records without a lot of the stress http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130427_Shift_to_electronic_records_without_a_lot_of_the_stress.html Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the 2013 Hawaii Health Workforce Summit focused on improving provider satisfaction and practice sustainability. A 2010 assessment performed by the John A. Burns School of Medicine revealed a shortage of more than 600 practicing physicians, 60 physician assistants and 180 nurse practitioners. Pilates and yoga work best with modern health care http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130420_Pilates_and_yoga_work_best_with_modern_health_care.html In recent years the mass market has seen a remarkable proliferation of services aimed at conditioning, weight loss and wellness. Curves is a streamlined women's fitness club franchise that popularized the 30-minute circuit training workout. Touch-screen devices pair risk, reward for young kids http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130413__Touchscreen_devices_pair_risk_reward_for_young_kids.html The first iPad came out just three years ago and further revolutionized mobile computing beyond expectations. It came on the market Jan. 27, 2010, and sold 500,000 units by the end of the first week. New insurer emphasizes efficiency, preventive care http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130406_New_insurer_emphasizes_efficiency_preventive_care.html Family Health Hawaii, the newest insurance company to enter the local market, will offer both lower premiums and superior benefits compared with existing carriers, according to Hawaii’s former insurance commissioner J.P. Schmidt. Sequestration delivers major blow to health care http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130330_Sequestration_delivers_major_blow_to_health_care.html As a result of protracted partisanship in Washington, our country is now unexpectedly undergoing a sequester. What exactly is a sequester? It is an automatic reduction to federal spending for a given fiscal year, made possible when Congress passed the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Gains in cancer treatment cannot continue without help http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130323_Gains_in_cancer_treatment_cannot_continue_without_help.html No one wants to hear the word "cancer" while sitting in a doctor's office. Still, cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in our country, behind heart disease. Health and wellness tourism aids isle resources, people http://www.staradvertiser.com/businesspremium/healthandmoneypremium/20130316__Health_and_wellness_tourism_aids_isle_resources__people.html The death of Hawaii's esteemed U.S. Sen. Daniel Ino­uye, combined with impacts of the sequester, has resulted in a substantial pullback in planned military spending for the islands.