Today's Healthcare Buzz: Mitt Romney and Immigrant Healthcare, Facial Monitoring and More

By Angela Atkinson Posted October 24, 2011 16:00 Comments

Here’s your daily dose of healthcare news buzz from around the web, brought to you by Scrubs & Suits.

In Case You Missed It:

On Friday, we covered Blue Cross & Blue Shield’s new social networking venture, designed to help the insurer’s members take control of their health. My Blue Community also connects members with a variety of health experts. Click here to read the story.
We announced our Featured Member of the week on Thursday. Angela Keeven, MSW is the director of resident well-being and social services at a St. Louis facility and somehow manages to do a ton of volunteer work while raising a busy family. Click here to learn more about her and find out her secrets for balancing her work and family time.

In Other Healthcare News:

American Power blogger Donald Douglas discusses GOP hopeful Mitt Romney and a 2006 bill that he signed into law, part of which allows immigrants to get publicly subsidized care at virtually no cost to them—regardless of their immigration status. Romney also reportedly hired illegal immigrants in the past (see video). Click here to get Douglas’ take on the immigrant healthcare subject, and be sure to check out the comments on the post.
SmartPlanet blogger Reena Jana reports that advances in facial monitoring via our computers and other devices could affect advertising, game and healthcare design. Click here to get the scoop.
Over at Healthwatch, THE HILL’s Healthcare Blog, blogger Sam Baker discusses the tax law that could hinder a quick Supreme Court decision on a healthcare mandate. Click here to find out why Baker says that a “thorny procedural issue could…complicate the push for a quick and decisive ruling.”
At Fast Company, blogger Brian Jackson says that while other industries have figured out ways to give back while still making a profit, healthcare providers, insurance companies and big pharma are still “trying to squeeze every last dollar out of patients, with bad results.” Click here to get this assistant professor of pathology’s take on this hot topic.
UCLA Newsroom’s Allison Hewitt reports that UCLA volunteers recently volunteered to provide healthcare to nearly 5,000 uninsured and underinsured people at the CareNow/LA Clinic. The providers include more than 70 UCLA doctors in a variety of disciplines who touched thousands of lives with their help. Click here to read this touching story and to learn about some of the patients the doctors helped.