The complexity and rate of change in health care sometimes makes spotting major trends difficult. One appears to be growth of home-based diagnostic and therapeutic care. An article in the…
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As the use of pay-for-reporting and pay-for-performance grows, there is more research into whether care processes being measured are really related to ultimate health outcomes. A new article says not…
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The Institute of Medicine's report on The Future of Nursing discusses many issues, but one that catches the eye relates to the role of restrictions on nurse scope of practice…
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Health spending is high in the United States compared to other industrial countries. Quality, based on health outcomes such as survival or mortality, appears to be worse. A new article…
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The regular weekend lineup of health care news, including doctors trying to limit nurse anesthetists' practices; text messaging for teenager dermatitis patients; Hewitt's cost projections for 2011; physicians and the…
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There has been a major push to expand measurement of provider quality, as defined by process of care and outcomes. A study suggests that having good quality doesn't necessarily mean…
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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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