First Posted at Forbes on 1/15/2013 In a recently aired episode of Downton Abbey, Lady Grantham showed that at least some of the estate’s servants seem to enjoy health…
The recent news that thousands of seniors with cancer are being denied treatment with expensive chemotherapy drugs as a result of sequestration-mandated budget cuts raises the question of whether…
The February issue of Health Affairs proclaims, “New Era of Patient Engagement,” but what signals changing times as much as a new intensity of academic interest is the money and…
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has just appointed four new advisory panels that will help guide hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants. Unfortunately, while PCORI released the…
Editor’s note: For more on engaging patients to be active participants in their own care, see the February issue of Health Affairs, “New Era Of Patient Engagement.”It…
As health information technology honchos gather for the annual HIMSS trade show and schmoozefest, it’s a safe bet the industry “scandal” the New York Times placed on page one recently will breed…
First Posted at Forbes on 12/18/2012 First Posted at Forbes on 12/18/2012When Homer Warner first started using computers in a hospital, the computers were analog and the house call…
First Posted at Forbes on 12/11/2012Forget finances and the fiscal cliff: raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 is likely to kill some of those…
The new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has been asking different stakeholders about the most important issues to address with the hundreds of millions of dollars the quasi-governmental group…
The old axis of access in U.S. health care – insured or uninsured – is being replaced by the kind of gradations and complexity in determining who-gets-what-when-for-what-price…
