How to Improve Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Scores
Poised at the nexus of Supreme Court oral arguments for health care reform constitutionality and the close of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Value-Based Purchasing…
Will Your Local Hospital Exist in 10 years? Should it?
The pressures mounting on most institutions as the years trudge by are mounting… they are mired in mountains of regulations, the need to implement millions of dollars of IT “improvements”,…
What the Supreme Court (and You) Won’t Hear About Health Reform
By Michael L. Millenson By Michael L. MillensonMichael L. Millenson, President of Health Quality AdvisorsThere’s a reason the pundits and legal poohbahs are prattling on about the “severability” of the…
Doctor as Patient
Dr. Schellhammer Dr. SchellhammerThe other day I interviewed Dr. Paul Schellhammer, a noted urologic oncologist in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Paul is 71 now and is very well known and respected…
Infographic:Social Media in Healthcare
Social media is becoming increasingly more prevalent within the healthcare industry. With more hospitals and doctors joining social-media platforms on a consistent basis, it begs the question of “helpful or…
Why Our HealthCare Spending Doesn’t Make Sense
You know that joke about the drunk crawling around under a street light? A cop comes up to him and asks what he is doing. The drunk explains that he…
Can Digitally Driven Kiosks Help Patients Find Medications?
If you have heard or read the news of late it has been all over that the FDA is considering making certain drugs available over the counter that are now…
Pay For Performance and HCAHPS
"There's nothing better at incenting than money." Setting aside for a moment the mangling of the English language in this quote (see the full article on HCAHPS and P4P), we…
Does GOP actually want Obama to decrease health care costs?
USA Today reports on a Republican National Committee advertisement that lambastes President Obama for not cutting health care costs. Considering that nobody’s really managed to do that over the last…
