(Some) Docs Launch War on Overutilization
(Reuters)–A leading group of U.S. doctors is trying to tackle the costly problem of excessive medical testing, hoping to avoid more government intervention in how they practice. The American College…
Kick-starting Healthcare Innovation with TEDMED2012
Having just written about crowdsourcing for healthcare innovation, I was intrigued by a recent tweet for the TEDMED2012 Conference. Landing on the TED home page, I found myself selecting a…
Congress Has a Panel on Women’s Health and No Women Were Invited At the House Hearing – ”Default Topics” of Abortions and Birth Control Returned to the Floor
What were they discussing…birth control. Imagine a women’s panel with no women to add content. Nancy Pelosi was quick to jump on that one as well. The second panel had…
The Fiction Behind The Cost of New Drugs
The following column appeared yesterday in The Fiscal Times: The following column appeared yesterday in The Fiscal Times: The drug industry usually defends the high price on drugs – the…
Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit: Cashews on the Hindenburg
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has a thousand pages of moving parts, and the relatively few that have rolled out are shedding sprockets across the landscape. This…
Lab Tests in Health Risk Assessments Help Spot Diabetes, High Cholesterol and Kidney Disease (transcript)
This is the transcript of my podcast interview with Dr. Harvey Kaufman of Quest Diagnostics. This is the transcript of my podcast interview with Dr. Harvey Kaufman of Quest Diagnostics.…
MRI Can Detect Cognitive Decline in Parkinson’s Patients
An MRI scan that detects atrophy patterns in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients also can detect cognitive decline in Parkinson’s patients. Parkinson's disease results from the degeneration of dopamine-producing brain…
HealthCare Costs: Time to Call ACOs Parsimonious Care Organizations?
Peter J. Neumann, ScD runs the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (I’m an advisory board member there) so he’s well placed to initiate a forthright…
CMS Announces Re-Examination of Timeline for ICD-10 – Is the Pressure Off?
Doug Hires, Partner at Santa Rosa Consulting Doug Hires, Partner at Santa Rosa Consulting The following is a guest post from Doug Hires, Partner, Consulting & Advisory Services at Santa…
