Don’t Kick a Unicorn When it’s Down
There has been a significant outcry against the proposed ACO regs: everything's wrong and nothing's right about them, or so some would have us believe. There has been a significant…
Top Quotes of the Week
“Working for rich people to make them richer isn’t all that fulfilling.” David Gilboa, the co-founder of the New York-based startup eyewear companyWarby Parker, describing why he walked away from a lucrative…
The Challenges of Health Care Cost Control
A MedPage Today post by what appears to be an informed consumer (and not a health care professional) provides a little peek into the factors that affect health care quality…
Cleveland Clinic CEO Recommends Changes to Current ACO Rules
In addition to the Cleveland Clinic, several other hospitals and chains have sent their concerns and suggestion to CMS. The Cleveland Clinic specifically saw conflicts that would ultimately put barriers…
Physician Salaries Represent 8% of Total US Healthcare Cost
When it comes to the high costs of physicians in healthcare, having 8% of the total amount spent based on this survey, is small. Costly tests still add up and…
The Healthcare Social Media Landscape
Here is a slide show I created reflecting on the different communities developing in this space. Although each emerged on its own, there is certainly collaborative projects and people across…
Mobile Phones in Hospitals – Many Contain Bacteria
The Journal of Infection Control reports that many patients’ mobile phones contain pathogenic bacteria, at least at the one hospital in Turkey where the study was conducted. About 40 percent…
A $2 Million Makeover
That’s what it is costing taxpayers to substitute this pie chart: For this pyramid: That’s what it is costing taxpayers to substitute this pie chart: For this pyramid: More here.…
Will There Be Health Benefits Exchanges by 2014?
Despite advice from most free-market analysis, some Republican governors are executing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) by establishing Health Benefits Exchanges. These governors dislike PPACA, but they…
ACO Pilot Program Judged a Failure
he experiment involves “accountable care organizations,” one of the hottest trends in health policy and an idea included in the year-old federal law intended to overhaul the nation’s health-care system.…
