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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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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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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A new Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality Statistical Brief decomposes the sources of inpatient hospital cost increases from 1997 to 2008, which is important to understand given that hospital…
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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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Hospital unit prices appear to be the single largest cause of increased health spending, according to several lines of research. In a new report, the National Institute for Health Care…
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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 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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