Urban: addressing long term care without CLASS (video) Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin reviews private plans in Medicare, Don on the long strange trip toward
David Williams with an interesting post about the Joint Commission issuing a ruling that texting of patient orders is unacceptable: No it is not acceptable
My summary: If a provider is clinically integrated enough to qualify as a Medicare ACO, that’s good enough for antitrust law too. From the October
Jeff Levin-Scherz nicely demonstrates that cost effective is not the same thing as cost saving, using the example of statins and their decrease in heart
Dogs detect diabetics’ trouble, writes Kinsey Sullivan. A non-profit called Eyes Ears Nose and Paws is training dogs to assist diabetics. Don’s comment: This group is training
This is a TIE-U post associated with Jonathan Oberlander’s Political Dynamics and Policy Dilemmas (UNC’s HPM 757, Fall 2011). For other posts in this series, see the course
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