On July 20th, The Washington Post did an expose on the process for setting the Medicare physician payment schedule entitled, How a…
The plethora of mobile apps comes under scrutiny and the market grows … The plethora of mobile apps comes under scrutiny and…
The hospital lobbyists in the “no way” states are trying to get the Governors to reverse course. The hospital lobbyists…
President Obama announced the BRAIN project, but we should harken back to prior efforts to change our thinking and framework – the…
New research is showing that crowdsourcing is more effective than traditional surveillance methods in finding healthcare problems. Are we surprised? New research…
First posted on The Fickenscher Files on 3/4/2013 Essential health benefits are defined, but the cost of care continues to escalate in an unchallenged…
Physician burnout is a growing problem and docs are turning in lots of new directions like moving to concierge medicine from traditional…
First posted on The Fickenscher Files on 1/6/2013 My thoughts on the events and directions of the healthcare community in 2013 ……
Employers are quieting changing their plans to encourage care delivery at high volume, good outcome, low cost facilities…. Employers are quieting changing…