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KPMG Report on Health System Change

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Another consultant’s report on the American health system, this one from KPMG and focusing on the supposed transformation from a volume-based system to one founded on value. While leaders of health care system participants recognize the likelihood of significant change, they also seem determined not to let their share of health system spending drop.

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The Latest Salvo From the Dartmouth Atlas Project

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The Dartmouth Atlas project has made its name by studying regional variations in health care utilization, spending and quality, with a core finding that substantial variation exists which does not appear to be correlated with quality. Its latest report, which has sketchy logic, examines variation in care at academic medical centers, which is where most physicians learn their craft.

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2012 Potpourri XXXIII

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Another installment of our non-award winning (are there any potential awards?) Potpourri, this one examining drug costs for conditions of aging, self-referral in imaging, in home palliative care at the end-of-life, more on hospital readmissions and retail clinic utilization.

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