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• in Politics
  Obama For President: Like We've Got Any Other Choice
  What Obama's done in his first term gives little hope for what might occur in a second.
  by shadowdoc1953 / on Apr 5, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “health reform”

 

• Improve patient safety to improve healthcare quality

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 584
  It has taken 13 years for us to revisit the issues in To Err Is Human , the 1999 landmark government report that shocked our nation with its revelation that 98,000 people died yearly in hospitals due to doctors’ errors. For decades, and through one administration after another, the lack of safety in our ...
  4 days ago

• How Moneyball applies to healthcare

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 584
  The storyline is familiar. An organization is challenged to achieve better results without spending more money.  An executive is committed to obtaining these better outcomes and recognizes that more financial resources aren’t forthcoming .  Faced with the option of near-certain failure if he continues to work ...
  1 week ago

• How Health Reform will affect Hospital’s Business Strategy

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 409
  For many years, fee for service payment was the status quo. FFS model encourages hospitals to adopt the following strategies to maximize market share and profits: Centered on short-term acute care Focused on specialist alignment Driven by a volume-based service-line strategy Using expensive medical equipment ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr. Jonathan Gruber, Heroically Simplifying Health Care

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 106
  Gruber, director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, explains the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in comic book format Millions of Americans disapprove of the Affordable Care Act without understanding what the act aims to accomplish or how it works.  Dr. Jonathan Gruber’s book ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jan. 17th Health Reform Discussion Recap

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 106
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  2 weeks ago

• Attorneys general support individual mandate

  
  FierceHealthPayer — Authority: 416
  To the relief of health insurers hoping the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the health reform laws individual mandate later this year, several state attorneys general filed briefs Friday with the court to support the provision. In one amicus brief , 13 attorneys general argued that the federal government has the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Implementing strategies to encourage patient accountability

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 584
  While payers and providers are usually in the spotlight when it comes to accountable care, the most successful models will be the ones that place a strong focus on patient accountability. More and more frequently patients are selecting doctors with the best outcomes, asking proactive questions, and taking an active ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hospitals save $4.5 billion in just 3 years

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 99
  By Kester FreemanFormer CEO, Palmetto HealthAmazing results were announced this morning regarding hospitals around the country and how they lowered healthcare costs to the tune of $4.5 billion and saved more than 24,000 lives in just three years! Remarkable. How did they do it? They got involved in a program called ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Reform Animated

  
  The Health Law Junkie — Authority: 85
  Part (probably a large part) of the problem for health reform is confusion. The public has no idea what the massive law even says and no understanding of health care jargon. ACOs? Exchanges? Individual Mandate? Uh, WTH? Its overwhelming, but understandably so. Were dealing with complex stuff here. It is a complex ...
  2 weeks ago

• France: Best Health Care?

  
  The Health Care Reform Debate Blog - cmhmd — Authority: 104
  I am taking an International Comparative Health Care Course this semester, so will be adding to my US/World Healthcare Comparison tag Im sure. Heres a piece from CBS Sunday Morning on France. The second half, showing the EMS triage system is pretty impressive.
  2 weeks ago

• Federal government to require drug and device companies to report payments to doctors

  
  Consumer Reports News — Authority: 113
  New standards issued by the government are set to require both drug and medical device companies to disclose payments they make to doctors for consulting work, research, lectures, and the like. Researchers have found that payments by drug companies can end up influencing medical decisions by doctors about patient ...
  2 weeks ago

• Media Partnership: National Health Policy Conference

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 528
  One of the priorities established in the Affordable Care Act is providing better, more efficient care to the “dual eligibles,” low-income seniors enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. AcademyHealth’s 2012 National Health Policy Conference (NHPC) will feature a panel on this topic, which is crucial to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYS budget to be released today

  
  HCFANY — Authority: 103
  Governor Cuomo is set to give his budget address today at 2 PM to outline his spending plan for the next year.  Expected to be on the agenda, of course, is more on Medicaid.   Some are speculating that he will talk about a state take-over of local county Medicaid expenses .  Also expected on the agenda is talk ...
  2 weeks ago

• January Man of the Month: Dr. Jonathan Gruber…EVENT TONIGHT!

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 106
  January’s Man of the Month, Dr. Jonathan Gruber will be speaking tonight at our event on health care reform. Dr. Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• AMA: A new model of patient care

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 584
  A guest column by the  American Medical Association , exclusive to  KevinMD.com . Let me start by wishing you and your families a very happy and healthy new year. This is my first column of 2012 for this blog, and I am excited to talk about a new initiative that is beginning this year. Medicare accountable care ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some More Good Stuff From MMPI

  
  A Healthy Blog — Authority: 101
  Kate Nordahl and the Mass Medicaid Policy Institute keep churning out more good stuff. Next up are two timely papers: First is a fact sheet (pdf) on the just-concluded extension of our Medicaid waiver, the agreement with the federal government that allows the Commonwealth to collect federal Medicaid funds for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Employer-Provided Insurance Is Different

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 513
  But whereas traditional insurance is subject to state laws and disputes can be tried before juries, with the potential for punitive damage awards, policies sold through employers typically fall under the 1974 federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or Erisa—with a federal judge ruling on disputes and no ...
  2 weeks ago

• How hospitals are gaining leverage over physicians

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 584
  Most hospital managers have never had the power to exert leverage over their most valuable resource, the physician, who, after all, admits the patients who make the hospital’s economic existence possible in the first place. So I wrote in introducing a chapter in my first book in 1988. I hastened to add, however, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doctors are forced to choose between really small or super big

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 584
  I am a little fish in a big sea. And so are most of us. Or used to be. For better and for worse, the era of private-practice, outpatient medicine as we know it is coming to an end. And faster than we thought. The choice now: down size or super size. No longer can a doctor operate a private practice as a solo ...
  2 weeks ago

• What health care can learn from the New England Patriots

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 584
  As the new year starts, I’m eager for a fresh start and working on improving myself both physically and emotionally. I’m also eager for the NFL playoffs and seeing how my favorite team, the New England Patriots, fares under the leadership of Coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. Doctors and health care ...
  2 weeks ago

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