Posted on April 25th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Despite the state’s move towards universal health insurance, visits to Massachusetts emergency rooms went up 7% between 2005 and 2007. This is consistent with a 2008 study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine showing that the primarily driver behind an increase in emergency room utilization from 1996 to 2004 was lack of access to convenient [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
The arrival of digital medicine promises to shake the medical establishment to its roots, not least because it will hand so much more information over to patients themselves. But the biggest savings will not come through exotic pills or “patient empowerment”, but from the application of basic economics. Realign the incentives in health care so [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Jay and I will be speaking to the medical students at Mount Sinai in NYC about Hello Health and the future of our beloved profession, replete with beer and snacks! We often speak in these settings and it’s always a pleasure to connect with the curious doctors and leaders of tomorrow.
Here’s the official invitation:
THE FUTURE [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Eric G. Campbell, Ph.D., writes about “The Future of Research Funding in Academic Medicine.”
The premise:
Medical schools and teaching hospitals in the United States are essential producers of basic scientific and clinical knowledge that drives our supply of new medicines, devices, and other health care [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Ultimately, says Khozin, the goal is for Hello Health to go nationwide, and hopefully impact proposals for reform. “The heath-care system cannot be fixed the way it is,” Khozin says. “Top-down mandates won’t work. The best kind of reform is grass-roots.”
The above segment is an excerpt from a recent New York Post article where I [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Another good article coauthored by Jerome Groopman, New Yorker staff writer and Harvard physician, on the dangers of promoting protocol-based medicine:
…rigid and punitive rules to broadly standardize care for all patients often break down. Human beings are not uniform in their biology. A disease with many effects on multiple organs, like diabetes, acts differently in [...]
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Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
The PSFK folks aptly dubbed the panel discussion that Jay and I were on last week “simplify my healthcare.” It’s a great description and speaks directly to what we do at HelloHealth: we enable the delivery of top quality care in a convenient, efficient, and pleasant manner. We use smartly designed technology to simplify the [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Low reimbursement rates and too much paperwork is forcing doctors to opt out of Medicare. “Of the 93 internists affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, for example, only 37 accept Medicare.”
This is bad news for our elderly and aging population and highlights why health coverage does not equal access to care. It also points to the [...]
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Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
I’ll be on a panel at the PSFK conferene tomorrow with my business partner taking about HelloHealth. Stop by if you’re in the area.
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