The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

CHRISTENSEN When I attended the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 2024 annual forum in Orlando, Florida, one of the best parts of the conference, as always, was talking to the other attendees. In healthcare, however, higher value does not lead to greater market power. By TAYLOR J.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

By Rose Hoban and Joe Killian Published in collaboration with The Assembly A recent Saturday night at the Moses Cone Memorial Hospital Emergency Department felt different. One factor driving that change: Cone Healths expanded network of urgent care facilities , including locations near the main hospital on Greensboros N.

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PHAB

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services. She is a practicing emergency medicine physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. This is a critically important time for public health, said Dr. Khaldun. To learn more about PHAB, visit phaboard.org.

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By JEFF GOLDMSITH As health systems struggle to emerge from the post-COVID financial crisis, the importance of the clinical enterprise to these systems has dramatically increased. Healthcare organizations are getting larger, as failing enterprises are absorbed into growing systems.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Well, as usual, there’s a lot going on in healthcare. There’s the ( potential ) Amazon – One Medical acquisition, the CVS – Signify Health deal , and the Walmart – United Healthcare Medicare Advantage collaboration. Digital health funding may be in somewhat of a slump , but that’s only compared to 2021’s crazy numbers.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Coined some twenty years ago by Ken Kizer, MD of the National Quality Form (NQF) and soon widely adopted and expanded, it recognizes that healthcare sometimes has egregious errors that shouldn’t happen: the wrong foot is amputated, the wrong drug/dosage is given, surgical instruments are left inside a patient, and so on.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Marian Spicer, 72, was treated for a kidney stone at Duke Health in late October. During the procedure, the doctor accidentally tore her bladder, and she didnt get out of the hospital until early November. She got out of the hospital Nov. Those policies often come with a premium that may be too costly for some.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Bush touted the promise of affordability of prescription drugs and the federal government’s commitment to providing older adults with high quality healthcare experiences, all with the underlying intent of privatizing the administration of Medicare, by shifting spending from traditional Medicare to Advantage. healthcare system.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 23, 2025

Last fall, three reporters for the Guardian US showed how Parkview Health, the largest hospital system in Indiana, consolidated aggressively over more than 10 years and then steered patients into expensive care settings, secured high prices from health insurers and became the regions largest employer.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

healthcare system: we’ll no longer have both M.D.s It wasn’t until 2014 that allopathic and osteopathic medicine agreed to a single accreditation system for graduate medical education. This is no way to run a railroad, as the saying goes – much less a healthcare system. BY KIM BELLARD. As I often lament, it’s 2022.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

This is in part because of a faction of scientists that have mined electronic health record databases to find evidence that the long term impacts of COVID on a variety of different organ systems is significant. Once you’re brought to the attention of the health system, you suddenly have a lot more diagnoses added to your record!

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 19, 2022

I read the Stat News investigative piece “ Health care’s high rollers ,” by Bob Herman and colleagues, with interest but not much surprise. I mean, is anyone surprised anymore that healthcare CEOs often make a lot of money, and didn’t let a crisis like the pandemic dampen that? I think I know how to fix healthcare.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

If you missed it read Part 1 & Part 2 By JEFF GOLDSMITH Two major changes in health insurance ensued as the US health system entered the 21 st century- a strategic shift of health cost risk from providers to patients and the emergence of machine driven managed care.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

And, of course, easier to relate to healthcare. We buy them already designed and built, complete with an operating system and other useful software. Some of those people are already using Raspberry Pis in healthcare, including various forms of monitoring, screening, and even MRI analyses. healthcare. Where’s our $5 MRI?”

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

So what, you might ask, does this have to do with healthcare? It turns out that there is something called a healthcare engineer. In fact, there is an American Society of Healthcare Engineers , which says is “dedicated to optimizing the health care built environment. It sought to resolve that.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Phase I- Health Maintenance Organizations and Delegated Risk Capitation In response to a long run of double-digit health cost inflation following the passage of Medicare in 1965, the Nixon administration launched a bold health policy initiative- the HMO Act of 1973- to attempt to tame health costs.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

We have, bluntly, not transitioned the health care system from something about acute / episodic / largely single illness to chronic / ongoing / largely multiple illnesses all at once. Nor have we achieved the shift from hospital to community. Tinkering with the system as it is now, or something more fundamental.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

By EMILY JOHNSON Imagine you’re an executive at a large health system in a major metropolitan area. The patient safety team moves quickly to investigate, and they discover that the patient was a young woman who had given birth to her first child just two weeks ago at one of your hospitals. Their family is furious.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

How Physicians and Hospitals Sustain the Opioid Epidemic For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shaped medical education, ingraining the belief that opioids are the best first-line treatment for acute pain. Hospitals and health systems have also played a significant role in perpetuating opioid dependence.

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NC Health News

APRIL 4, 2025

He was diagnosed with severe Crohns disease Isaacs immune system had decided that his own intestines were an enemy. Isaacs immune system was on high alert and could continue to attack his intestines. She spent hours on the phone between the company, pharmacy and the physician. Hes now 10 years old and back to playing soccer, she said.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I was talking about our healthcare system. A microgrid is a self-sufficient energy system that serves a discrete geographic footprint, such as a college campus, factory, hospital complex, business center, military installation, or neighborhood. Healthcare needs to literally join in. They power the system.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The following six months of chemotherapy treatments included five hospitalizations, the loss of her hair, and the inability to care for herself or her children. The goal for insurers is to avoid unnecessary or inappropriate utilization of health services. Hospitals will say it’s insurance companies. Medical Society.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

health care is that online and media reaction focused exclusively on the non-profit system paying an estimated $8 million for the 30-second spot. While many Americans know of the hospital rankings by U.S. In essence, patients are being asked to bet their life there was no similar drop off the competence cliff by a hospital.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 7, 2025

By Emily Vespa and Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger Faced with a growing health care worker shortage and provider burnout , some North Carolina health care leaders have said there is great promise in artificial intelligence systems. NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

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Bamboo News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

2024, Bamboo Health took part in the Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference (MESC) 2024 conference in Louisville, KY, which centered on Medicaid systems and related health policy. An example of this is the crisis system’s ability to support justice-involved individuals through their care journey.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. However, as we discussed in a 2021 posting in Health Affairs , these large, complex health enterprises played a vital role in the societal response to the once-in-a-century COVID crisis. Origins of Hospital Consolidation.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 6, 2025

While health care systems are using AI in a variety of ways to reshape care behind the scenes, these virtual scribe tools are some of the most visible to patients they bring AI directly into the exam room. More than 1,500 Atrium Health doctors are licensed to use DAX Copilot, according to an Atrium spokeswoman.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 17, 2022

So it is for most of us with the word “innovation” – especially in healthcare. E.g., in healthcare, which of our many problems do we try to solve, for which populations, with whose help? Will it improve the health of the most undeserved among us? You keep using that word,” Inigo finally say s. “I

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Your Local Epidemiologist

JANUARY 21, 2025

trillion agency and far-reaching public health policy. Wellness marketing has made this idea extremely popular, but as a public health policy, it is overly simplistic, biased against technological advances, and can potentially harm our health. Increased healthcare costs: While RFK Jr.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 4, 2021

Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions. It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and drug discovery, environmental and occupational health, population health, and health policy.

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Sheffield DPH

AUGUST 22, 2024

Through the event we wanted to explore our roles in influencing the structural and systemic drivers of climate change. rethink our economic models and policies. RTA (implies individual action, not system design) vs crashes Climate change as global heating. And thus policy. The ask of speakers was to challenge us deeply.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Our city has always ensured that New Yorkers have the information and tools they need to make healthy decisions for themselves and their families,” said Mitchell Katz, MD, president and CEO, NYC Health + Hospitals. A ‘HealthyNYC’ is a ‘Food Forward NYC.’

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

MARCH 14, 2025

Her nonprofit aims to bridge the gaps in access to quality healthcare, advocating for equitable and inclusive maternal health services. After Dr. Choos incredible work with the Baltimore City community, she began work as the Director of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) at the Maryland Department of Health.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have been studying American healthcare for more than 40 years and I have assembled a large number of one-liners over the years. In Glasgow, healthcare is a right, carrying a machine gun is a privilege. For Canadians their health care system is a proud point of cultural differentiation from Americans. By IAN MORRISON.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. Eric Larsen. Tommy Ibrahim.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

healthcare system continues to be such a mess, and I have President Dwight Eisenhower to thank. I’ve been paying close attention to our healthcare system for, I hate to admit, over forty years now. Let our healthcare system get so bad that not addressing it no longer is possible.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 3, 2022

I’m comforted that DARPA and DIU are learning in real time what lessons their agencies can learn to help fight future wars, but I’m wondering who in our healthcare system, and who in our governments (federal/state/local), are not just fighting COVID but learning the bigger lessons from it to fight future crises.

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