The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has issued a report looking at use of clinical decision support and knowledge management systems, finding some evidence for positive health and cost…
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Use of emergency rooms is monitored as a potential indicator of access and quality problems. A recent study from the American College of Emergency Room Physicians analyses trends in both…
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Our Potpourri resumes, with information on consumer trust of insurers and providers, consumer use of online health information, price transparency in health care, imaging rates in integrated health care systems…
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Germany has encouraged wellness programs in a manner similar to the US. A new report from the Commonwealth Fund discusses results from the country's efforts and draws lessons that may…
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Summer is heating up and our Potpourri is smoking too, with nuggets on a silly provision in the final MLR rule; research on causes of readmissions, some within hospital control,…
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Research reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that a comprehensive care management program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had excess mortality, to the point that the trial was…
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This week's Potpourri contains tasty morsels of health care nutrition, including geographic variation in cardiac procedures, barriers to shared decision-making, issues in the credibility of survey-based research, the value of…
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The Commonwealth Fund puts out yet another report decrying the sorry American health system, which has by far the highest per capita costs and supposedly no better outcomes. It is…
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The only way to know if something really works is to have credible experimental research. A review of clinical decision support research suggests that they can improve health care processes…
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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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