Thursday, September 12, 2013

Having their cake and eating it: Perverse incentives

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A friend made an excellent point the other day, upon reading my post about Consumers Union's advocacy for warranties on orthopaedic dev...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

On the road with WIHI

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The next WIHI broadcast —  On the (Virtual) Road with Mobile Clinics and Population Health — will take place on Thursday, September 12 ...

The winner's curse

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As we look across the US and see large academic medical centers acquire community hospitals, we have to wonder whether they will someday re...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Warranties for hip and knee implants?

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A press release notes : Consumers Union, the policy arm of Consumer Reports, is calling on the top manufacturers of hip and knee implant...
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You judge. What's the right call?

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Here's a video of a soccer game in which a Brazilian physiotherapist steps on the field and saves a goal from being scored--and then h...
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Oh good. More expensive AND no benefit.

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A story from Robert Langreth at Bloomburg , based on a scientific study. Excerpts: Surgery to remove the uterus using a $1.5 million robo...
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Monday, September 09, 2013

Unimaginable: Lose their kidney and then seek to recover court costs

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Doug Wojcieszak over at Sorry Works! retells the sad story of a hospital, University of Toledo Medical Center, that mistakenly disposed ...

How not to conduct a rulemaking

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A well done article in Modern Healthcare raises more questions about CMS' analysis and motivations than it answers with regard to th...
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Sunday, September 08, 2013

The importance of being earnest and NICE

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UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is widely admired both in the country and abroad for the rigorous manner with ...
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Tom still reminds us of a Reason to Ride

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One of my great pleasures when I was CEO of a hospital was to engage in philanthropic efforts by grateful patients who wanted to support ...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

There goes the random walk hypothesis!

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My daughter recently mapped the path of her one-year-old son shortly after he learned to walk.  Here it is:
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Wise words from my friend Boaz Tamir

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On this eve of the New Jewish Year, the fog grows thicker and the horizon seems to be moving ever-further away: We face uncertainty...
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Friday, September 06, 2013

I wasn't cynical enough about the proton beam industry

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I've posted a number of stories about the manner in which the medical-financial complex has pushed through the construction of very hi...
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Are Surgibuns™ for you?

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Not all health care innovations come out of NIH R01 grants.  Here's one developed by Lisa Corcoran, an OR nurse who was tired of wear...

There are protons in Europe, too

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Speaking of proton beams , while they populate like rabbits in the US based on a financial model that includes overpayment for prostate irr...

September 13 deadline for HOPE Award nominations

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  Nominations for the MITSS HOPE Award are Due by Friday, September 13, 2013 .    Now that Labor Day has passed, it's time to ...

Learning from patients, made easy and effective

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An article in The Guardian tells of a lovely and simple approach for really listening to patients and using their feedback, from Spira...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

Calling the trustbusters!

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The case for market concentration driving higher health care prices, which could be predicted by virtually any economist, is being proven o...
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Congratulations to Dr. Minter-Jordan

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I missed this announcement earlier this summer but am very pleased to repeat it now. Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan took over as the new pr...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Still nothing from CMS, but Blue Shield of CA acts

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One of the mysteries of the medical arms race is why the CMS administrators who have served in the Obama Administration (Don Berwick and Ma...
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