Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
This weekend, one of the biggest conferences in medicine is taking place: the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Conference. On June 1, just prior to the conference commencing , I participated in an interesting half-day workshop in Chicago centered around better understanding of the value of innovation in oncology. The workshop was sponsored by…
Did the ACA constrain health care costs? Should we pay for blood? Health care in your barbershop? Do we need to move beyond traditional cost effectiveness? In what ways can machine learning surprise us?
At Healthcare Economist, we talk a lot about quality metrics. What they can and cannot do. One of our gurus of health care quality measurement, Avedis Donabedian, weighed in on his thoughts on how best they should be used: “Systems awareness and systems design are important for health professionals, but they are not enough. They…
“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.” Ambrose Bierce, HT: The Browser.
Progress on risk-based agreements. ACOs increase cost? P4P fail with gym memberships. The importance of reading. “Super Bowl of lung cancer immunotherapy” Apple Watch health data leads to murder conviction. plus The Spring is Here! HWR.
The Healthcare Economist will be on vacation with blog posts resuming March 26. I will be in Peru. To learn more about the Peruvian health care system, read this post. For those of you in Healthcare Economist withdrawal, below are some end of the week links to tide you over until I get back. 3D…
Benefits of smoking bans. Service-level selection. Workplace wellness selection. The end of cervical cancer? The drawbacks of mental health reform.
Health technology assessment (HTA) is growing in popularity. Already widely entrenched in Europe, in the U.S. value frameworks are being used to measure the cost effectiveness of different therapies. Some of these frameworks, however, take a narrow view of societal benefits and value to include components of value to patients or society such as caregiver…
Practice makes perfect. CON fail. Love conquers all but nicotine. Growing popularity of the welfare state. “Fairness” is not always how things get done.
P4P in the NFL. Cancer screening blood test. Some progress towards sharing clinical trial data Separating conjoined twins. Kicking the can down the road is very bipartisan