A recent study sheds light on how shifting economic tides impact quality of care in Veterans Health Administration.
Providers owe it to patients to consider if less really is more.
There are benefits to focusing more on the non-physical side effects of treatment.
The high human costs of prison co-pays for medical care.
Medical scribes join doctors, nurses, and other providers in patient visits to help ease administrative burdens on providers by documenting visits and entering orders, allowing the provider to spend more time focusing on the patient instead of the electronic health record. A new pilot is testing if medical scribes would be an asset to VHA facilities.
The following is a guest post by Garret Johnson. He is a research assistant for Dr. Ashish Jha at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
This is a FAQ entry. See the main FAQ index for others. On the paper that underlies the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s County Health Rankings On an infographic
Austin is out of town, I believe, so I’m taking it on myself to ARGH for him. The NEJM has published a piece entitled, “What
I mentioned health care as a merit good in an post last week. What I want to emphasize about all the discussion in that post
This post complements one yesterday that focused on market failures in health insurance (read it first). It’s loosely based on the content of Economics of
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Chapter 4 of Health Economics: Theories, Insights, and Industries Studies, by Santerre and Neun includes the following conceptual model of our health system. About this
