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A Marriage Of Data And Caregivers Gives Dr. Atul Gawande Hope For Health Care

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | August 31, 2012

Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) has been a bard in the health care world, straddling medicine, academia and the humanities as a practicing surgeon, medical school professor, best-selling author and staff writer at the New Yorker magazine. His long-form narratives and books have helped illuminate complex systems and wicked problems to a broad audience. Read More »

Avoidable Care Conference Foments Revolution

Stephanie Bouchard | Healthcare Finance News | June 13, 2012

The Avoiding Avoidable Care Conference wasn’t so much about the epidemic of unnecessary medical care or the costs of unnecessary care. It was a rallying cry to the medical community, and to doctors in particular, to reclaim the profession of medicine from the country’s market-dominated healthcare system.

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Health Execs Uneasy About EHR Budgets, Survey Finds

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | June 21, 2012

About half the business administrators at hospitals or health systems who participated in a recent poll conducted by New York-based audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG said they're halfway or more done with deployment of their electronic health record system; 48 percent, however, said they're only somewhat comfortable with their organization's budget for doing so. Read More »

High Cost Doesn't Equal Better Care

Staff Writer | Jacksonville.com | May 18, 2012

Almost 100,00 Americans die and about 1 million are injured each year as result of medical failures, reported the Institute of Medicine in 2000. In fact, 30 percent to 40 percent of American health care is wasted due to overuse, underuse, misuse and other factors. And in too many cases, the costs for the new procedures aren't justified. However, the system isn't designed to control costs. Third parties are paying for the procedures.

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Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients

Atul Gawande | New York Times | January 24, 2011

Can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care? Read More »

Meaningful Use Can Cost Millions, Even After EHR Purchase

Ken Terry | FierceHealthIT | October 27, 2011

How much does Meaningful Use cost a healthcare system, beyond the initial price of electronic health record hardware and software? The CIOs of three systems gave answers to that question in a wide-ranging discussion at CHIME's Fall CIO Forum in San Antonio. Read More »

New Wireless Sensors Tackle Old Problems Like Pneumonia

Anthony Vecchione | InformationWeek | June 26, 2012

For the past seven years, wireless sensor technology developed at the University of Missouri (MU) has helped detect disease in its early stages among residents living at the TigerPlace assisted care facility in Columbia, Mo. Now, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, that technology soon will be expanded to remotely monitor the elderly in another facility in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Read More »

Poorer Nations Push for Universal Health Coverage as U.S. Squabbles

Philip Caper | PNHP | June 14, 2012

A few weeks ago, an article by Noam Levey of the Los Angeles Times caught my eye. It was titled “Global Push to Guarantee Health Coverage Leaves U.S. Behind” and it described how “even as Americans debate whether to scrap President Obama’s health care law and its promise of guaranteed health coverage, many far less affluent nations are moving in the opposite direction — to provide medical insurance to all citizens.”

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Why Medical Costs are Rising

Steve Jacob | United States of Health | May 14, 2012

Wealthier nations all spend more on health. However, the U.S. spends well above what would be expected, compared with its peers...Analysts said the condition of Americans’ health did not explain the higher costs. Read More »