Life Expectancy Paradox Explained by Smoking
People with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health. The trend holds true wherever researchers look — in poor countries or rich ones, in…
Medicare Cost Rise Eats Up Part of Social Security Inflation Adjustment
Social Security recipients are likely to get a cost of living allowance (COLA) adjustment next year, based on an increase in the Consumer Price Index. Yet most senior citizens will…
Evolution of Spine Surgery Market is Changing the Landscape
The global market for spine surgery devices was estimated to be worth about $12.43 billion in 2010, and is forecast to reach approximately $23.90 billion by 2020, exhibiting a compound…
Are U.S. Doctors Paid Too Much?
The average annual income for a primary-care doctor surpasses $186,000. U.S. orthopedic surgeons make $442,450 on average. Both figures are substantially higher than the median income in this country —…
Do Specialists Have to Meet All Meaningful Use Objectives?
Jim Tate, Meaningful Use Expert Number One Question from Specialists about Meaningful Use Jim Tate, Meaningful Use Expert Number One Question from Specialists about Meaningful Use There are two questions…
Primary Care Physicians Can Greatly Reduce The Costs Of Care, Especially For Chronic Diseases
In an earlier post I described the problem of excessive and inappropriate drug prescribing when a patient with multiple chronic illnesses did not have good care coordination by a single…
Global Handwashing Day: Support Global Handwashing
I have always been interested in the power of preventions rather than cures for infectious diseases. Simple preventative measures, like handwashing with soap at key points during the day is…
Why Are There Disparities In Health Care? Because It’s Free.
The latest issue of Health Affairs is devoted to racial and ethnic disparities in the consumption of health care. Naturally, they found some. Why are they there? The latest issue…
How Pay-For-Performance Can Backfire
From Health Affairs by Aaron Carroll: From Health Affairs by Aaron Carroll: One of the ways you can have really good stats is to treat healthier people in general…. Wealthy…
HealthCare Social Media Trolls and Customer Unlikes
I came across a couple of blog posts that address some of the more uncomfortable social media issues, so this post goes along with my firm belief that we should…
