Thursday, September 11, 2014

Once competition is gone, it's gone

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Here's something for the two Attorney General candidates in Massachusetts to ponder, some recent statements from Martin Gaynor, the dir...

It Ain't Necessarily So

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There's an elegant article at Medscape by Christopher Labos called "It Ain't Necessarily So: Why Much of the Medical Literatu...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Robots around Le Monde

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I present this view from France courtesy of patient safety and quality expert Michael Millenson , who saw a copy of Le Monde while in E...
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No more treading water, on WIHI

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Madge Kaplan notes: Hi there, The next WIHI broadcast —  Tread Water No More! Making Sense of Patient Experience Data   — will take pl...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Thanks, Don

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The votes are in, and Don Berwick did not succeed in his quest to obtain the Democratic nomination for Governor.  While this is surely a ...
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Must things be the way they are?

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Something to think about as you make your election day choices.  Which candidates are most likely to ask why things must be the way they a...
Monday, September 08, 2014

The technology proliferation story that's not often told

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Gary Schwitzer puts into perspective the issue surrounding the desire of Ashya King's family for the child to have proton beam therapy...

How not to write a headline

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Headline writing is an art and hard to do well.  Some headline writers, though, fall into the trap of just reading the lede and then presen...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

A Modern Hippocratic Oath

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As we further consider the physician development and training issues in our society, it is illustrative to turn to the oath taken by doc...
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After all, we are real doctors now.

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Pranay Sinha zeroes in on some important physician training and developmental issues in an op-ed in last week's New York Times .  Some...
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Saturday, September 06, 2014

How paved roads came about

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Most people don't realize that many of the first paved roads in New England came about as a result of political pressure from bicy...
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Not always

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A different and humorous approach to appointment management!  Useful for clinics and hospitals? Actually, a variation can be, as noted ...
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Friday, September 05, 2014

AG candidates aim to close the barn door, but too late

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Brava to Jessica Bartlett at the Boston Business Journal for asking the question more directly than her colleagues in the "major...
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Move Over, Big Data!

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"Move Over, Big Data! How Small, Simple Models Can Yield Big Insights"    MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series Se...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014

And soon, a major motion picture?

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So this book arrives in the mail, with an accompanying note from my buddy and colleague Jim Womack at the Lean Enterprise Institute.  He...
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Cart. Horse. Whatever.

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Priyanka Dayal McCluskey at the Boston Globe writes : Attorney General Martha Coakley is renegotiating a controversial settlement wit...
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Don't forget HOPE Award nominations

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Please don't forget that nominations for the MITSS Hope Award are due by September 19.
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Here's one view about Medicare billing transparency

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While others have dispassionately made the point that there are unexplained variations in Medicare physician billing data that warrant care...
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Alice in Wonderland had nothing on this CMS billing issue

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Muriel Gillick provides a cogent description of some Medicare billing issues in nursing homes.  If you can provide an explanation for how ...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Undisclosed financial ties

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In a recent post about the controversy over the use and cost of femtosecond laser cataract surgery, I relied in part on an article in Re...