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  • If You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don’t Call a Capitalist
    By MICHAEL MILLENSON The Leapfrog Group has just released its latest report grading the safety of hundreds of individual hospitals, but the real news isn’t the“incremental progress.” It’s how a group started by some of the most powerful corporations in America has quietly devolved into just one more organization hoping press releases produce change. Amid the [...]
  • Using Price Transparency Data Within the Hospital
    By David Halpert, MD Last week, CMS unilaterally released chargemaster data from 300 hospitals around the country. As David Dranove summed up well in his recent piece, this is an old hat. Yes, there are big variations in hospitals’ chargemasters. And yes, there is a lot of buzz around consumer price shopping. A Kayak for [...]
  • The Great Pharma Conspiracy That Wasn’t.
    By DAVID SHAYWITZ The birthers, it turns out, aren’t the only ones with wacky conspiracy theories; evidently a lot of people out there really think there are cures “They” don’t want you to know about. In particular, there seems to be a surprisingly pervasive belief that drug companies aren’t working on cures for disease because [...]
  • When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Hospitals Pay the Price
    By Joanne Conroy, MD I always believed that, if we could harness the entrepreneurial spirit of the American physician, we could be capable of great things. Physician decisions drive much of what is good and bad about our health care system. Their pens are the biggest driver of cost and their vigilance is the most [...]
  • New Developer Contest: Create a Cancer Survivor Tool
    By Adam Wong, ONC and Abdul Shaikh, NCI ONC and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are challenging app developers to create new tools to help cancer survivors. The new Crowds Care for Cancer: Supporting Survivors Challenge is asking app developers to create new tools meant to help survivors manage their care after they have completed cancer [...]
  • Wal-Mart Could Transform Care–But Does It Want To?
    By Dan Diamond “Why is Wal-Mart speaking at a health care summit?” the company’s vice president for health and wellness, Marcus Osborne, rhetorically offered up at a conference back in January. “Wal-Mart’s in retail, we’re not in health care.” But as analysts, researchers, and other experts who spoke with me. took care to point out, [...]
  • Thank You, Angelina
    By JAMES SALWITZ, MD Dear Ms. Jolie, Thank you for your bravery and leadership in the battle against breast cancer. In a small way, through my patients, I understand the challenge and pain it took not only to undergo prophylactic mastectomies, because you carry the BRCA1 cancer gene, but also to reveal this deeply personal [...]
  • Did Angelina Do the Wrong Thing?
    By SHIRIE LENG, MD A woman’s mother dies at age 56. A blood test is done. The woman finds out she has a genetic pre-disposition to cancer. She takes what action she thinks she needs to take. A familiar story repeated over and over again every day. I’ve met many women who have made this [...]
  • The Leapfrog Group and the Spring 2013 Hospital Safety Score Release
    By Leah Binder Q: Have hospitals improved since the first Hospital Safety Score last year? A: We saw an incremental improvement in the scores, though it is not as rapid or as dramatic as we would like. For the Spring 2013 Hospital Safety Score, there were more than 2,500 general hospitals scored, including 780 “As,” [...]
  • Is the Online Health Clinic the Wave of the Future?
    By Jason Shafrin HealthPartners argues that the answer is yes. In a 2013 Health Affairs article, they argue the following: HealthPartners in Minnesota launched an online clinic called virtuwell in late 2010. After more than 40,000 cases, we report an average lower cost per episode compared with care received in traditional settings, strong indicators of [...]
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