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Will Federal criteria for meaningful use of Electronic Health Records make doctors less likely to adopt them?
Hmmm…some pushback from the American Medical Association and other interest groups to get the the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (aka Uncle Sugar) and to change the requirements for… more →
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Will Federal criteria for meaningful use of Electronic Health Records make doctors less likely to adopt them?
wrote 1 year ago: Hmmm…some pushback from the American Medical Association and other interest groups to get the … more →
Are adverse errors in medicine an order of magnitude more common than current estimates?
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wrote 2 years ago: This is startling news from Healthaffairs.org ! If the methodology is sound and it pans out, I think … more →
Debates over the definition of medical loss ratio: how much gets spent on medicine, how much on overhead and profits?
wrote 3 years ago: I am seeing coverage of the pretty wonky issue of how to define medical loss ratios (the ratio of ho … more →
excellent exchange of views about reforming healthcare
wrote 3 years ago: Ezra Klein of the Washington Post interviewed Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the ranking Rep … more →
Cognitive load, medical error, sterilization, and "the checklist"
wrote 3 years ago: I was chatting with a veteran of the medical insurance business the other day and mentioned “c … more →
Holding individual clinicians accountable for medical mistakes?
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wrote 3 years ago: from www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/health/17chen.html?_r=1&hpw “Published by the Institute of … more →
Are Health insurance companies paying Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Health Reform legislation?
wrote 3 years ago: It sure looks that way. It makes me think that there could be a race to the bottom ala Marx, where c … more →
Is innovation factored into health care quality metrics?
wrote 3 years ago: from http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa654.pdf None of the best-known studies factor in the contributio … more →
the place in America where healthcare costs are highest: McAllen TX
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wrote 3 years ago: from the June 1, 2009 New Yorker: “Only Miami—which has much higher labor and living costs—spe … more →
Uwe E. Reinhardt: healthcare comparative effectiveness analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis
wrote 4 years ago: from http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/cost-effectiveness-analysis-and-us-health-care/ Wi … more →
