Ken Jennings reacts to being outsmarted on Jeopardy! by IBM’s computer “Watson” (h/t Ezra Klein): IBM has bragged to the media that Watson’s question-answering skills
This has been on my mind for a while and this is the first time I’ve seen it in print, by Jonathan Oberlander in NEJM:
I’ve been blogging and will continue to do so on issues related to the conflict between the economics and health perspectives of consumption (utilization) of
I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating over and over. Matt Ygleasias: Like suppose scientists did come up with a pill that grants you good
From CommonHealth: [B]elieve it or not, the state panel made up of all kinds of “stakeholders,” from hospitals to doctors to patients to insurers, has
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
In a typically short post (which is good; you can read it quickly and should) Tyler Cowen reminds us that diminishing marginal returns apply to
See it at the Colorado Long Term Care Insider.
A large proportion of spending by states on substance use treatment and prevention is financed by federal block grants. That seems clear in the following
the health services research blog
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