Volume 3 Issue 1

Amidst the doom and gloom that pervades discussions about health care finances and the bleak reimbursement environment in which many practitioners operate, one New Jersey physician entrepreneur is using technology to build a home care practice that produces improved outcomes for patients and a better quality of life for physicians. Alan Faustino, MD, of NJR Healthcare talks about the importance of high-quality transitional care, the need for physicians to be proactive in confronting the challenges facing their profession, and why home health care may hold the key to designing more innovative approaches to health care delivery.

What steps can the medical profession and policymakers take to stave off the looming shortage of primary care doctors?

For most doctors an "off the rack" plan from an accounting, legal, insurance or investment firm just doesn't work.

Over the past four decades, red meat has gotten a bad rap. Consumption of beef, pork, and lamb has been linked with poor cholesterol scores and increased risk of breast, colon, and rectal cancers as well as diabetes and a host of other chronic diseases. The conventional wisdom has, however, lumped all red meats into a single group and arrived at a blanket judgment that eating any red meat is equally harmful.