tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23746760660253918822011-07-28T11:46:22.306-07:00News and opinions on Health CareTomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-68345342184737825552011-05-13T18:53:00.000-07:002011-05-13T18:53:05.039-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/business/14health.html?_r=1

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-26697030349292708622010-07-23T16:40:00.000-07:002010-07-23T16:40:15.163-07:00

Health Reform, Primary Care, and Graduate Medical Education

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-14253737880694425902010-04-18T18:39:00.000-07:002010-04-18T18:39:02.952-07:00

http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2010/03/30/caritas_christi_could_carve_out_a_lower_cost_niche_under_new_owner/

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-36606925221089727692010-04-02T17:55:00.000-07:002010-04-02T17:55:34.280-07:00

The New York Times is finally publishing the kind of analysis on the new health care law that I and probably many others have been craving.  I like this particular piece because although it is very brief, it allows several experts to share their opinions on the matter.  

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/health/30women.html

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-67820819238735553862010-03-27T20:23:00.001-07:002010-03-27T20:23:38.872-07:00

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/362/12/1066

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-51211609637429311052010-03-25T17:11:00.000-07:002010-03-25T17:11:54.164-07:00

http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2010/03/health-reform-a-class-act.html

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-12272274519093767982010-03-22T21:20:00.000-07:002010-03-22T21:44:45.518-07:00

Search for information about the health care reform bill that is reportedly on its way to becoming law, and you are likely to find a myriad of articles detailing the political proceedings surrounding the passage of the bill, and far fewer descriptions of what the bill will actually do. These descriptions are uniformly short, and share an irrevocable tendency toward oversimplification. CBS news

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-79180695558053384182010-02-10T09:39:00.000-08:002010-03-22T21:46:42.684-07:00

In a recent article in H+, Derya Unutmaz and Gary Marcus speculate about the future of immunizations.  They assert that the practice of infusing custom-made lymphocytes into patients in order to cause immunity to specific diseases will soon become widely available. Already scientists at Caltech, headed by Nobel laureate David Baltimore, have engineered stem cells that can be programmed into B

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-4986596445319833922010-02-07T09:09:00.000-08:002010-02-07T09:13:06.136-08:00

This bizarre story reminds us of the high degree of regional variance in the culture of medicine and physician autonomy. The prosecutor said he would show that Mrs. Mitchell had a history of making “inflammatory” statements about Dr. Rolando G. Arafiles Jr. and intended to damage his reputation when she reported him last April to the Texas Medical Board, which licenses and disciplines doctors.Mrs

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In a recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine's Health Care Reform Center, Stephen J. Swenson MD and his coauthors argue for the value of widely-adopted and standardized guidelines and performance-based outcome measures in medicine. The transformation from cottage industry to postindustrial care will be facilitated by combining the three elements of standardizing care, measuring

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12055384819450554821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374676066025391882.post-21514986798366863372010-02-04T11:46:00.000-08:002010-02-07T09:11:43.361-08:00

These two students write a very nice editorial in The New York Times about the role of patient safety education in medical school, paying special mention to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. The only question I have is whether they really believe that medical education is a zero-sum game. Is it really a contest between safety awareness and biochemical knowledge? Why haven’t medical

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