Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Benefits from quality competition in health care? Impact of debt ceiling deal on health programs. Signals that are so clear you don’t need statistics, and signals that are so weak that statistical analysis can’t help. Health equity impact of sickle cell gene therapy. Primer on drug development from Derek Lowe. Central Limit Theorem explained.
As I do every year, I take today to highlight some health care news related to the military and our veterans. VA disability claims backlog grows. “The Department of Veterans Affairs anticipates that its claims backlog, defined as those older than 125 days, will grow ‘potentially up to 400,000’ in the next year, largely the…
Consumer perceptions of oncology trial endpoints. Rural upbringing increasing likelihood MDs move to rural areas. Pain in the US. Cost sharing, prior authorization, and specialty drug utilization. Drug affordability panel?
AI in the operating room. Estimated annual Medicare spending on Alzheimer’s drug. On remote work: “The Power of Proximity to Coworkers” Price vs. cost. Issues with publicly available price data. On the definition of a timely diagnosis: “Our health care system assumes the diagnostic journey begins when the patient is first seen by a clinician…However,…
Yes, this appears to be the case. Medscape reports: In one of the largest healthcare deals to date, Kaiser Permanente is acquiring Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health and investing $5 billion to fold it into a new nonprofit subsidiary called Risant Health, which is set to purchase additional medical groups in coming years.While regulators still must review…
Three parent baby? Area Deprivation Index only reflects median home price? Organ on a chip? Using the “uptrend effect” to increase rates of exercise. Cognitive activity at work and the risk of dementia
Impact of retirement on health. JAMA articles on physician use of AI (1, 2, 3) Is the COVID-19 emergency over? What EHR reforms are needed? Pharma vs. PBM: patients lose out?
Human Genome Project: twenty years later ICER’s UPI protocol. Cross-market hospital mergers. UnitedHealth 1Q profits: $5.8 billion. Cancer vaccine in the works.
The future of nursing homes. FDA and digital health technologies. Explaining corporate America’s aggressive investment in primary care Full vs. partial choice set design in DCEs. VC funding slow-down for biotech.
Khan Academy and GPT-4. ClinicalTrials.gov vs. PubMed. Judge rules on coverage of preventative care. Health insurance mandates and marriage. Medicaid-for-all back on the table?