Archive for the ‘physicians & medical quality’ Category
Friday, August 15th, 2008
"People not profits." You might hear this in discussions over health care and emergency situations. Ask these people to check out the success of Jeff Ellis and Associates, International Aquatic Safety and Risk Management Consultants. In July they hosted their annual Lifeguard Challenge. An Ellis employee describes it:
Our goal with ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Writes Linda Gorman:
If you think that the quality of your health care depends on whether your doctor keeps your medical records on an interoperable computer system or on whether the country has national health insurance - even it if it means that sick people will die while waiting for care ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
John Goodman summarizes the latest study in The Lancet:
Cancer survival varies widely across the developed world and within the United States. However, in almost every category Americans survive cancer at higher rates than patients in other developed countries. American cancer patients have a higher survival rate for every major form ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
According to the OECD, patients in the United States pay only 13% of their medical expenses out of pocket (as of 2005). This is equal to the United Kingdom, and less than Canada, both of which have (nominally) single-payer health care. The consequence of patients spending so little for their own ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Problem: Doctors may stop seeing Medicare patients because the reimbursement rates are so low.
The solution? At least one blog commenter wants to make Medicare the only game in town so doctors either put up or shut up.
Bloomberg News reports:
James King, a doctor in Selmer, Tenn., doesn’t take new Medicare patients. More ...
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