At the height of the summer, with dryness across the land, there is no drought of information in our Potpourri, this week including use of an interactive health record to…
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Patient satisfaction and patient-centered care are two health care movements which are being incented and rewarded by various government and private payer programs, but a Perspective in the Journal of…
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Federally qualified community health centers are a lynchpin to providing accessible health care for lower income Americans. Two recent reports discuss quality and cost issues at these centers and indicate…
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Medication errors figure prominently in health care spending, and errors after hospital discharge are a cause of readmissions. Recently reported research examined whether an intervention by clinical pharmacists could reduce…
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Hospital costs are the major contributor to national health spending growth. A report from the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy examines executive compensation at the state's non-profit hospitals, which…
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Our Potpourri finally returns, including items on duplicate payments in federal health programs, EHR use and malpractice claims, venture capital statistics, consumer use of online self-service applications, and a new…
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The British Medical Informations and Decision Making Journal carries research comparing traditional and virtual consulations. Patient satisfaction is equivalent across the two methods and doctors are also accepting of virtual…
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No matter how controversial they may be, consumer-directed health plans with their higher cost-sharing continue to spread rapidly. A Rand Corporation brief examines the evidence on the effect of these…
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IMS has a tremendous amount of information on prescription drug use and their reports are always worth paying attention to. The latest provides their outlook through 2016, finding steady increases…
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation summarizes and follows up research on the contribution of hospitals to spending increases and in particular the effects of hospital consolidation. Not good news for…
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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