The Value Journey
I found this article in Health Affairs interesting. It’s called Recent Progress In The Value Journey: Growth Of ACOs And Value-Based
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I found this article in Health Affairs interesting. It’s called Recent Progress In The Value Journey: Growth Of ACOs And Value-Based
Continue readingThis is what a patient received as a bill by the local hospital. It was shared with me and I
Continue readingCommunity Health Systems, one of the country’s largest for-profit health systems, uses three EHR networks across its 118 hospitals: Cerner, Medhost
Continue readingBy CMS standards, when a policy of wading for hours in raw sewage leads to patients getting gangrenous legs, we
Continue readingA recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences states “women who show up in the emergency
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Continue readingCMS has come out and made it official: Hospitals will be required to post online a list of their standard
Continue readingHere is a dilemma for you. Imagine if a school bus driver came to your rehab facility after a motorcycle
Continue readingThe biggest hospital system in central Maine is having major issues and I have some things to say about it.
Continue readingDoug would be justified in banning me forever from this site for quoting a story from Vox, but scan Twitter
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Continue reading“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy
Continue readingOne of the very worst parts of medicine is that the profession is a constant conduit for social commentary and
Continue readingRecently the Democrats came out of nowhere and introduced a bill to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. The Democrats! Hooray!
Continue readingFive years ago I wrote about Dr. Watson and how it won’t replace doctors. I actually wrote about it before
Continue readingI was recently alerted about a terrible situation that Dr. Diana Blum is going through. From a recent article it
Continue readingAccording to the CMS they have “proposed historic changes to Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and the Quality Payment Program (QPP)
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