It required nearly 7 years of effort but finally the Zap-X is regulatory cleared in China! In time this country will become ZAP Surgical's largest single market and millions of Chinese patients will benefit. #medicaldevice

beckershospitalreview.com/innovation/mas…  My alma mater’s “myopic” list of #medical innovations does not list a single #medicaldevice or #surgical procedure! Harvard/MGH/BWH obsession with NIH funded basic #medicalscience (and the institutional overhead it pays) blinds them to practical clinical

@CureusInc was awarded its first Impact Factor. The 2022 2-year IF and 5-year IF are 1.2. Impact Factors, alongside other metrics such as turnaround time and downloads can help to provide an overall assessment of journal quality and its research output. cureus.com/newsroom/news/…

It required 14 years of hard work but finally Cureus secured its first #impactfactor. The journal is tracking almost 20K articles to be published in 2023, and over the next 2 years I expect @CureusInc to emerge the largest #medicaljournal in the world. Clearly our authors like

beckersasc.com/asc-transactio…  Largely because of the complexity of government mandated systems, the balance of power has tipped entirely towards big hospital networks, the result being increasingly obscene expensive and impersonal #healthcare for all. Sadly, there is no intelligent

Although I despise these (vanity) lists of rich people, there is still an interesting observation to be made. This list contains ~1% of US #billionaires yet #healthcare represents close to 20% of the US economy. It demonstrates that healthcare is a lousy industry in which to get

I am all for more #techtalent coming to the US. However far too much of the current pool of talent in the US is being utilized poorly in low (social), but financially valuable, #fintech, private equity, social media, AI, health-tech or endless me-to new business models (food

beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and-r…   Damn this is scary stuff. Can you imagine having an “AVERAGE” #emergencyroom visit of almost 8 hours at several big-name #hospitals? As screwed up as current #UShealthcare can be, these numbers blow my mind!

Excuses, excuses, excuses! Why are big name institutions so expensive? Because people with too much money are dumb enough to pay, me included. Ultimately fancy #universities like those where I have spent much of my life are the most inefficient, hyper politicized institutions in

To anyone who is tempted to fake data in a #research publication, DON’T DO IT!! The consequences of doing so can come back to haunt you and your colleagues for years to come, no matter how powerful you may think you are right now!!! wsj.com/articles/stanf…

What are big #hospitals so afraid of? Mostly they are afraid to be called out for their absurd prices which much more efficient, yet smaller #physician owned #clinical practices, ASCs and hospitals can readily undercut. It is only the massive political clout of big hospitals that

US #hospitals must survive on 1.4% profit margins…..absolutely crazy! The solution for the past 3 decades is to keep raising prices to what are today by far the highest in the world. When will people wake up and finally realize the answer is to reduce the regulatory burden on

#Doctors make a lot more money than nearly all other professions. How is that a surprise? But with such a broad range of #physician abilities, why are all doctors paid the same for a given RVU? Nowhere else in our society is that true. I don’t have an answer, but it reenforces

I am not sure if #California SB-598 has a chance of passing, but it is long overdue that government find a way to level the playing field when it comes to pre-authorization. If an “insurance company” is going to withhold approval of a covered service, it should be a fellow

John Adler There are a lot of teachers, pilots, baristas, etc who vary in skill and are paid the same simply because they don’t own the biz. But doctors specifically cannot own the hospitals. Are teachers barred from owning private schools? Pilots from creating an airline co?

beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-manag… Words of wisdom from one of the few people really trying (& able) to fix #healthcare. Moreover, how much of our lives are wasted in useless meeting? We can make society so much more efficient by carefully rationing them…..unfortunately in a regulated

forbes.com/sites/sachinja… Brilliant! Dr. Jain points out that #patient-#physician relationship is the heart of #medicine yet today we have largely "middlemen, actors and sub-actors", companies which promise to fill “gaps” in but instead create a "Frankenstein #healthcare system”.

prenuvo.com Whole body screening #MRI scans…yikes! With all due respect to celebrity endorser Kim Kardashian (ugh) this utterly dumb idea will produce one false positive after the next, merely enriching a few #medical charlatans at the expense of patient well-being.

beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/judy-faul… “#Healthcare industry is adrift at sea because of challenges like provider #burnout, staffing shortages, provider satisfaction” etc, but now Epic can fix it. Is Judy Faulkner blind? Epic’s horrible SW app is THE cause of these “challenges”. More Epic will