By Julie Appleby, KHN staff writer Millions of consumers and small businesses will receive an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates from their health plans this summer under a provision of the health care law that effectively limits what insurers can charge for administration and profits, a new studyprojects. “This alone ...
Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative | Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation. One of the great movements in reforming our health care system is rebuilding primary care delivery. Health systems with a strong primary care focus foster healthier people at lower costs. The decimation of our primary care workforce in the ...
This is the main entrance of MGH in Boston, MA. The building on the right is the White Building. The building on the left is the Lunder Building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Durably improving health is really, really hard. I’ve discussed this in the context of drug discovery, which must contend ...
Two of my recent posts* have addressed the drivers of high health care costs in the U.S. I’ve received a lot of comments, for which I’m grateful, as this is meant to be a conversation. Many of the comments have come from the medical community: doctors, heads of medical practice ...
“Food and nutrition related issues are a critical driver of health and well being,” commented Todd Park, chief technology officer of HSS by email. “The growth of the food tech community, along with the release of new food and health data sources, can give consumers new tools to help them ...
When businesses think their costs are high and uncompetitive, they use a practical tool called benchmarking: they compare their costs and quality to peers and determine where the difference (“gap”) arises, and why. Yet, for all the attention health care has received in recent years, there is little understanding in ...
PARIS — In the early 1900s, a course of study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine might have meant traveling to a hut in Italy for several months to study the causes of malaria. Or it might have included sailing to the West Indies to help a ...
Investors busy assessing how the state of the global economy will affect their stock portfolios should start thinking about how the presidential race will weigh in. In particular, investors may want to look at how to play the health insurance space. Health care remains a subject of divide between the ...
The Fate of Health Care Reform — What to Expect in 2012 — NEJM. The New England Journal of Medicine’s article on the fate of health care reform in 2012 greatly saddens the optimist in me. It discusses four important events, and I’ll share my “simplistic view” of these events: ...
The central theme of this column has been the urgent need to understand medicine – and to design healthcare innovation (including biopharmaceuticals and health services) — from the patient’s perspective, something many key stakeholders (and would-be stakeholders, such as entrepreneurs – see here) fail to do – at their peril. ...
Health care and the Affordable Care Act are very complicated subjects with many moving parts. My goal is to bring simplicity and understanding of the health care system and the law to everyday people. With understanding the system and the problems, we can work together toward solutions. Blogs make this ...
Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a patient relationship management company. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s health care practice and was the founder of Microsoft’s Health platform business. You can follow him on Twitter @chasedave. In 2006, Microsoft acquired ...
Never to shy away from difficult conversations, I’m starting this blog with health care reform. People love to ask, “Are you in favor of health care reform?” Most people I’ve spoken with around the country think health care is broken, which means we need reform. Did the Affordable Care Act ...
A reader named Marc recently left a comment asking how our high deductible health plan has worked out for us. Given that November is open enrollment season, this is a very timely question, so I thought I’d tackle it with a dedicated post. In short, we’ve been thrilled with the ...
If we were to be polite we would say that it’s very easy to mislead people by quoting numbers at them. If we were to be impolite then we’d have to say that it’s very easy to lie with numbers. Which is what seems to be happening here over the ...
Instead of delving into the Affordable Care Act title by title, which could be extremely boring, I am going to discuss it in relation to the pain we are feeling and what we can most easily fix. In medicine, it is easiest to talk with a patient after I’ve helped ...
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