Online Communities & Attrition from Health Intervention Programs
Provider-centric, face-to-face health intervention programs that help people quit smoking, lose weight and increase activity levels have been shown to work, but they are expensive, don’t scale, and inconvenient. By…
Peter Diamond for Chief Economic Adviser
Austan Goolsbee, who’s been President Obama’s chief economic adviser since he entered the Senate in 2004, is returning to the University of Chicago. As chairman of the Council of Economic…
Hospitals to patients: Go Away and Don’t Come Back Soon
It seems that Medicare’s focus on reducing readmissions to hospitals is stimulating renewed attention to hospital discharge planning and communications. I’ve found it shocking how patients are often abruptly transitioned…
Driverless Autos
The promise: The benefits of driverless cars are potentially significant. The typical American spends an average of roughly 100 hours a year in traffic; imagine using that time in better…
Three Cheers for Sen. Hatch
The Family and Retirement Health Investment Act of 2011 will: The Family and Retirement Health Investment Act of 2011 will: Allow a husband and wife to make catch-up contributions to…
Soaring Medical Costs Pinned on Medical Devices
The following appeared this morning in The Fiscal Times: The following appeared this morning in The Fiscal Times: While squabbles over the rules for approving new medical devices rarely attract much…
Cancer/Cell Phone Connection Challenged
In the letter, Davis and Balzano, who each have more than 35 years of research experience in the biological effects of wireless telecommunications technology, offered a critique of a paper…
Botox May Dampen Emotions
@ballyscanlon, Getty Images@ballyscanlon, Getty ImagesA recent article in Forbes cited a study in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science that found that Botox may not only numb facial muscles,…
CMS Reports on Provider Performance
The next step in the process of releasing more information about the performance of hospitals and physicians (as noted previously) has been taken by CMS. The next step in the process…
Health Care Buzz Today
HIV Cases Fall by 25% between 2001-1009. The data comes from a press release by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Researchers attribute the drop to safer sex behaviors…
