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Gun law reform should not require medical records by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The federal government has proposed that state mental health agencies be allowed to transmit certain data about mentally ill patients to the FBI’s National Instant Backgro ... Read on »

A pain-free way for seniors to chip in on health care costs by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The fiscally reckless Medicare Part D drug benefit –passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Republican President– continues to add to the US federal deficit and de ... Read on »

Shire finds its home in Massachusetts by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Shire, a mid-sized pharmaceutical company based in Ireland, has a new CEO, Flemming Ornskov. One of his first actions after taking over was to move to the Boston area, whe ... Read on »

Cavalcade of Risk is up at AMAXX by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival is hosted at AMAXX. Read on »

Noise reduction in hospitals: the value of patient experience surveys by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The value of patient experience surveys is intuitive to consumers, who are definitely interested in what other patients think about their doctors and hospitals. Providers ... Read on »

Call for submissions: Health Care Social Media Review by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’m hosting next week’s Health Care Social Media Review , a blog carnival focused on health care social media. To submit your post: Email your ... Read on »

Of ACOs and the over-imaging of children by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Today’s news feeds feature a big new study on pediatric CT radiation doses. Anyone who’s been paying attention will not be surprised by the results: The use of CT s ... Read on »

Maternity benefits excluded for daughters –never occurred to me by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I learned something new today from Kaiser Health News : Employer health plans routinely cover pregnancy costs for workers and their spouses—but not necessarily daughter ... Read on »

Subsidies will temper health insurance “rate shock” for the young by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is a complex, multi-faceted law but critiques of it are often simplistic and opponents find themselves getting twisted up in contra ... Read on »

Health Wonk Review is up at Healthcare Economist by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Healthcare Economist Jason Shafrin takes an economical approach to prose in the Jeopardy Edition of the Health Wonk Review. Read on »

ikaSystems CEO Joe Marabito on transforming health plan IT systems (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Joe Marabito, CEO of ikaSystems. We discuss the complexities of the health plan IT world and how health reform i ... Read on »

US News and Doximity launch physician directory by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine US News & World Report , which has made a business out of rankings, is getting into the physician directory business through a partnership with Doximity , an online physi ... Read on »

Obamacare and entrepreneurship by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine A front page Wall Street Journal article ( Risk averse culture infects U.S. workers, entrepreneurs ) bemoans the lack of people willing to start businesses. Although the e ... Read on »

Coordination of benefits: What health plans are doing about it (podcast) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When patients have coverage from more than one health plan, their claims go through a “coordination of benefits” (COB) process that is fraught with complexity, expense and ... Read on »

Policy recommendations on quality measurement: my reactions by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Bob Berenson, Harlan Krumholz and Peter Pronovost are luminaries in the creation of quality and safety measurements in health care. They have come together to propose Sev ... Read on »

Cavalcade of Risk is up at Life Insurance by Jeff by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Check out the latest Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival at Life Insurance by Jeff. Read on »

Narrow networks and health insurance exchanges: I’m quoted by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine National health plans and high priced providers are staying away from California’s new health insurance exchange at least for now. But other health plans have signed up; s ... Read on »

What if shared decision making costs more? by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’d like to read the articles in JAMA Internal Medicine about shared decision making, but am too cheap to pay for access. So I’ll rely on the LA Times article on the topic ... Read on »

Aetna video deserves its prize by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Aetna won an Award of Distinction for its short videos designed to help members comprehend and use their benefits. I’m generally a curmudgeon when it comes to such video ... Read on »

Opposition to Obamacare may doom the GOP by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Republican Party is having a hard time dealing with the rebuke it received in the November elections. Party leaders pretty quickly determined that the growing Hispanic ... Read on »

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