New manuscript in Health Affairs on “activated patients”: Research indicates that patients who are more activated, based on their Patient Activation Measure score, are significantly more
Kavita Patel (@kavitapmd) is a fellow in the Economic Studies program at The Brookings Institution and managing director for clinical transformation and delivery at the Engelberg
From Hippocrates’ Shadow, by David Newman: Why does Bennington have one of the highest MS rates in the world? We don’t know, but we can
I don’t read Mashable, but someone tweeted this, so I checked it out. It has no sourcing or supporting links, which is disappointing. But the
That’s the tweet by Fraank_Oceaan that accompanied this picture: @afrakt
New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez is beset by questions regarding his activities on behalf of his friend Dr. Salomon Melgen. The Center for Medicare and
I have to admit right up front that I’ve never read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. But evidently, a lot of you did. Further,
It’s a slow news day here in Fraktopia. An Epic Storm is allegedly on the way. School was canceled. So, I’m home keeping the fraktions
Amitabh Chandra and colleagues have an op-ed over at the WSJ talking about defensive medicine. I’ll let them set the stage: Defensive medicine—the ordering of
When I posted earlier, I had forgotten about the recent paper by Bryan Schmutz and Rex Santerre on the device tax and R&D. I still
For The Hill, Pete Kasperowicz reports: A bipartisan group of 180 House members — consisting of about 40 percent of the House — has reintroduced a
