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Wed, Nov 12 2014 8:59 AM
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So Much Talk, So Little Walk on Quality
By CECI CONNOLLY Quality is all the rage in health care these days. It rolls off the presidential tongue and is at the heart of robust targets set by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. (No less than half of all Medicare payments to be...
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Mon, Jul 11 2016 11:57 AM
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Risk-Factor Based-Medicine and Its Discontents
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD If concepts could get awards, then “risk factor” would surely be a Nobel prize winner. Barely over 50 years of age, it enjoys such an important place in medicine that I suspect most of us doctors could hardly imagine practicing without...
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Tue, Jul 12 2016 12:16 PM
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Oh Those Evil Law Suits!
By JIM PURCELL My wife of 47 years likes to tell of her travails after having married me. She claims she had no inkling that I would specialize in despised career choices. Right after we were married, I served as an infantry airborne officer in Viet Nam...
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Thu, Jul 14 2016 3:37 PM
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Homo ex machina
By ASIF DHAR, MD ‘Temet Nosce’ or know thyself. This is what The Oracle tells Neo when they first meet in The Matrix. Who we are and how we learn is a combination of our biology and our personal experiences. The plasticity of our minds and our genes make...
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Thu, Mar 03 2016 5:07 AM
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A New Federal Agency to Oversee Patient Safety?
By TEJAL GANDHI, MD Patient safety should be a major priority for the United States, and that requires designating a centralized entity or coordinating body to oversee efforts to ensure it. Such centralized oversight is one of the key recommendations...
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Thu, Mar 10 2016 11:17 AM
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An EHR-Driven Checklist Manifesto
By JOHN HALAMKA, MD Boston Physician Atul Gawande wrote The Checklist Manifesto in 2009 stressing that medicine should adopt “pilot’s checklists” to ensure that operating room teams are “ready for takeoff” before a scalpel is ever opened. Here’s the Read...
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Tue, Jul 05 2016 9:28 AM
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You want yer 2015 predictions?
Gautam Gulati crowdsourced a whole lot of predictions by asking health care types what they expected to see in 2015, and you can see them all on his site. Mine is above–Matthew Holt Read More...
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Fri, Jan 02 2015 1:52 PM
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Job Post: THCB Editorial
THCB is looking for talented interns to assist with editorial, research and web production tasks as our web site undergoes a major expansion. Perfect for a grad or med student with an interest in journalism, public policy, and/or the business... Read...
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Sun, Jan 10 2010 11:00 PM
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Don’t Let Zika Stop the Olympics
By ASHISH JHA, MD An expert panel convened by the World Health Organization just declared that there is no scientific basis for canceling, postponing or moving the 28th Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August or the Paralympics in September because...
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Sun, Jul 10 2016 10:16 AM
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CCD Standard Gaining Traction, CCR Fading
By JOHN MOORE In a number of interviews with leading HIE vendors, it is becoming clear that the clinical standard, Continuity of Care Document (CCD) will be the dominant standard in the future. The leading competing standard, Continuity of Care... Read...
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Mon, Feb 22 2010 2:00 AM
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The Next Generation of Communities Part 2: Integration Within the Delivery System
By Bianca Grogan The notion that an online community could be embedded in a health care delivery system is still mostly foreign, but at the Health 2.0 Fall Conference in San Francisco, October 7-8, 2010, there were two examples presented... Read More...
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Thu, Dec 09 2010 7:02 AM
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Quality v. Quantity
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD Impactful news today: Physicians, CMS and major commercial plans, announce simplification of quality measures. "Huge step forward" #aafp — Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) February 16, 2016 A few weeks ago, the medical community...
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Fri, Mar 04 2016 10:19 AM
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