Less is not always more, but it can be good enough. The New York Times published an article yesterday showing “two starkly different paths toward death in New York City’s hospitals, one for patients at elite private institutions, another for those at public hospitals, according to new data compiled as part of a consumer [...]
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Myca + JP + Me = Hello Health
Coming soon to NYC
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Redundant, inefficient, and impractical are some of the words that come to my mind when I think about many of the new ventures and products that enter the healthcare market. That’s why when I first heard about ZocDoc I was lost for words. They challenged my knee-jerk reactions to their counterparts.
Launched in September 2007, ZocDoc [...]
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Matthias G. Muenzer, MD, a gynecologist in Boston, recently presented the following 3 items as a poll to a group of physicians on Sermo about what all physicians have in common, regardless of their political or personal views. Within a few days, 304 physicians responded, 95% of whom strongly agreed with his vivid assessment:
We want [...]
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After watching the video, imagine a healhcare system run entirely by the government.
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Greg Scandlen, is the President and CEO of Consumers for Health Care Choices (CHCC), “a not-for-profit grass roots organization that represents the views of the health care consumer to policy makers and industry leadership.” Below is an excerpt from a talk he gave back in 1999 at a meeting of the AMA House of Delegates [...]
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One of the essential needs of a consumer-directed healthcare system is transparency on behalf of providers, i.e. full disclosure of fees charged by doctors and hospitals for their services and appropriate quality measures associated with each transaction. Since 2006, the Bush Administration has publicly endorsed the idea of having more information available to consumers on [...]
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Massachusetts is pushing aggressively towards universal health coverage for its residents. At a recent briefing sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation, the architects of the state’s health reform plan bragged about the number of newly insured residents. The counterargument to their lofty rhetoric came from Grace-Marie Turner, the founder [...]
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Google Health Beta was launched earlier today. This is a free service that provides an online space for patients to store their health information and share them with healthcare providers. Patients can either enter their information manually or have them imported automatically from a small list of providers such as the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical [...]
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State of the art medical care usually comes with a high price tag, a reality that is fully palpable in the U.S. and starting to manifest itself in other parts of the world. A recent McKinsey Quarterly report estimates that healthcare spending in Japan can double as a proportion of their GDP in the next [...]
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