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Is Price Competition the Key to Higher Quality?
In our third-party-payer health insurance system the price for care is typically…
They Call This Research?
The Dartmouth Health Atlas has come out with another one of its…
Health Care Buzz Today
ScrubdIn Announces Winners of 2011 Best Medical Apps Contest. Best medical app…
An Alternative to Malpractice
About three decades ago, University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein proposed…
Reducing Surgical Complications – The Checklist
Hospitals are not safe places – that’s a fact and is also…
Why do People in High Deductible Plans Seek Less Preventive Care?
A notable finding from a RAND study How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans…
Scribes Continue to Grow in Hospitals
Nobody thought that scribes were going to a permanent solution but it…
Does Socialized Medicine Bring More Accountability?
Whenever I’m in Canada I enjoy reading what the newspapers have to…
Can a $3 Million Prize Solve a $2.5 Billion Dollar Problem?
If a health plan could predict which patients will incur the most…
Report: Branded Drug Use Sharply Down, Generics Way Up
A healthcare informatics company issues a report today that I really do…