Posted on December 14th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
BusinessWeek on Regina Herzlinger‘s vision of a consumer-driven healthcare system: Consumers tailor their own health-care coverage, navigating in a national insurance market. Everyone must buy insurance, and the federal government maintains strict oversight to ensure price and coverage fairness. Small, disease-specific hospitals care for patients who don’t need all the services offered by medical centers. [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
We’ve all heard stories about the long wait times in our emergency rooms (ERs). In some cases this has translated into bad outcomes, as demonstrated by the case of Esmin Green, the 49-year-old woman who collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital. A recent survey of ER [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
From Obama’s website: Sign up to lead a Health Care Community Discussion in your home, community center, or even a local coffee shop, anytime from December 15th to 31st. Apparently Senator Tom Daschle will choose one of these discussions to attend in person.
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Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Ever wondered what truly empowered healthcare consumers look like? Take a look at the picture below. As part of our recent community outreach and marketing campaign, we are giving free flu shots at Hello Health all week. “got my free flu shot today from hellohealth. yay!”
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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Wordle is a great website that lets you generate word clouds from free text and websites by visually depicting the most commonly used words. Below is the word cloud configuration for my blog. It looks like I use the words physicians and healthcare a lot.
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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
In the recent issue of Plastic Surgery Practice, Gerald C. Canaan, W. Scott Johnson, and Karah L. Jones write about the increasingly abrasive medical litigation environment that is one of the main reasons behind the escalating healthcare costs.The authors cite very revealing statistics, including: In 2003, many states witnessed malpractice premiums rising by more than [...]
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