Habanero filling in for Bill McNulty today, providing healthcare programming.

We'll be talking about transparency in pricing, governmental efforts to get prescription drugs off the streets, more Affordable Care Act initiatives rolling out in 2013.

Resources for today's programming include:

Obama administration unveils simplified health forms after storm of complaints
Published: April 30, 2013 2:55 PM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Feds: New Yorkers give back 55,146 pounds of prescription drugs

May 3, 2013 12:52 PM, By WILLIAM MURPHY william.murphy@newsday.com

Habanero filling in for Bill McNulty today, continuing the discussion about the impact of superstorm Sandy on Long Island's waterways.

Professor

To find out information about the Stony Brook's School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Great South Bay Project - http://po.msrc.sunysb.edu/GSB/

Great South Bay weather buoy #1 - http://po.msrc.sunysb.edu/GSB/B1RT.html

The topic today is communication in healthcare. Patient to provider, provider to patient, provider to provider, and within a provider office.

My guest in the studio today is Tim Healy, www.healysolutions.com.

My phone guest is Dr. Rohan Perrera, a local cardiologist.

You can reach me via email at habanero@wusb.fm, or call my office 631.244.5661. I welcome your comments and suggestions for future programming.

Here are links to some of the articles featured today:

http://www.sfhp.org/files/PDF/providers/Best_Practices/Have_you_addresse... (old study/suggestions for improving approach)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/02/opinion/verghese-doctors-touch/index.html (TED talk from a doctor)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/15/why-your-doctor-has-no-... (importance of communication)

http://whendoctorsdontlisten.blogspot.com/ (end of life discussions from ER doc when her Mom was dying)

http://healthecommunications.wordpress.com/tag/cost-of-poor-physician-pa... (from Dr. perspective)

http://patients.about.com/od/therightdoctorforyou/a/docpatientcomm.htm (rules for patients, rules for doctors)