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Thanksgiving Conversations About Health - Engage With Grace Blog Rally by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy For many years I’ve used the Thanksgiving dinner table conversation as a model for discussions about healthcare - but usually I’ve put it in the context of people ... Read on »

Cost and Coverage c. 1989-91: Part 2 of Historical Perspectives on Health Reform by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As I mentioned in my last post, in going through old files I found many memos and articles about health reform. Some of them from 1989-91 illustrate the long history of the c ... Read on »

Historical Perspective on Health Reform - Part 1, Medical Effectiveness by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Since the time-line for health reform legislation has continued to be stretched, I recently spent some time cleaning out old files. In my excavations I came across papers, ar ... Read on »

Making More Sense of Health Reform’s Politics by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As expected, it appears that Tuesday’s elections are clarifying the political thinking for some Member of Congress. Specifically, the losses of Democratic gubernatorial ... Read on »

Making Sense of Health Reform by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy After spending a week in Washington DC talking to lots of people, and reading all sorts of information, I’m still not sure how to simply explain the the current state of ... Read on »

More on Medicare Medical Home Demonstrations by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last week, I wrote about the new “Advanced Primary Care” (APC) model demonstration announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, and how it might inter ... Read on »

Morphing Medical Homes into Advanced Primary Care Model by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The concept of patient centered medical homes (PCMH) has been evolving since it was first presented by 4 primary care medical societies, (AAFP, AAP, ACP & AOA), in Mar ... Read on »

Shakespearean Health Reform by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy With the expected passage of legislation by the Senate Finance Committee this week, Federal health reform prepares to move into the next phase, i.e. merger of bills in the Hou ... Read on »

Off-Label Communications: Is More Less? by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Allergan corporation has filed a law suit against the Federal government challenging the FDA’s limits for companies discussing or promoting off-label uses of approved me ... Read on »

Bending the Cost Curve: Trees and Forests by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Bending the curve of cost growth has been a expanding issue within health policy discussions – as opposed to the public plan option, which has increasingly been the focu ... Read on »

Encouraging Communications About Patients’ Goals by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I attended a great event yesterday where experts discussed how to improve healthcare quality and safety by increasing patients’ involvement in making healthcare decision ... Read on »

Healthcare Reform’s Hurricane Warnings by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Before the start of the hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center at NOAA issues predictions for how many storms and major hurricanes are expected that year. Political ... Read on »

Kennedy Legacies for Health Reform by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In preparation for Congress reconvening today - and to spin up activits’ energy ahead of the President’s health reform speech on Wednesday - there was a rally yest ... Read on »

Beyond Health Insurance Reform: Transforming Health Care Delivery by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy “Health insurance reform” has become the latest label for national health reform legislation, but this renaming has pushed discussion about how to transform healt ... Read on »

Miscommunicating Health Reform by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Anyone following the debate about health reform knows that the discourse has become increasingly uncivil. While it is easy to blame those opposing the proposals being develop ... Read on »

Health Reform Fact and Fiction by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In this blog I try to explain the meaning of different aspects of healthcare reform, delivery, financing, research, etc. Sticking to that goal has left me a bit stymied in se ... Read on »

What is Health Reform, and Why? by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As Congress enters the August district work period, (the official name for the August recess), the debate about health reform has shifted from Congressional hearings and mark- ... Read on »

Real Health Reform in Massachusetts by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Massachusetts Special Commission on Payment Reform recently issued its recommendations for shifting the state’s health care system from Fee-For-Service (FFS) to Glo ... Read on »

Unfortunate Diversion from Health Reform Message by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It was unfortunate that President Obama answered the question about Professor Gates at his news conference last night because it has dramatically diluted the focus of his mess ... Read on »

Biotechs Biting the Dust by Michael D. Miller Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On Tuesday, Epix Pharmaceuticals announced that they were dissolving. And unlike many innovative life sciences companies, they’re not being acquired by another company ... Read on »

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