A paper from the National Bureau of Economics explores the role of patient and physician preferences in geographic variation in health spending.
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The Food and Drug Administration released its final guidance on mobile medical applications, a subject of intense concern for software developers and health technology companies.
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A Pew report relating to medical care in prisons finds that states are increasingly burdened by these expenses and are searching for ways to better control this rapidly growing spending.
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A report from the Optum Institute provides another look at data related to geographic variation in important health outcomes, especially quality and spending.
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Health care related "apps" are all the rage, particularly on mobile devices. A report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics examines the current status of and issues related to…
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A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research explores the relationship between changes in Medicare reimbursement and private health plan provider payments.
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Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine examines the link, if any, between hospital readmission rates after surgery and overall hospital quality for surgeries.
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A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that surveillance bias can undermine the validity of certain hospital quality measures.
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All the attention focused on the problems with the health insurance exchanges created by the reform law has made for little scrutiny of other aspects of it, which are equally…
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Research published in Health Affairs suggests that the type of insurance a patient has may affect the quality of care they receive in a hospital.
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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.