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Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday August 31 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are the small but mighty pairing of Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); and patient safety expert and all aroundContinue reading…
It’s hard to read the latest report on Medicare ACOs without feeling a tinge of sadness about what could ave been.
This is the last of the classics that THCB will run to celebrate our 20th birthday. And we are finally tackling the most important of questions. Is what we call this thingContinue reading…
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday August 17 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are futurist Jeff Goldsmith: medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); policy expert consultant/author Rosemarie Day (@Rosemarie_Day1); and patient safety expert andContinue reading…
Hospital performance measures need to get beyond the failed report card format and present information in a way that resonates with the public.
Lives ruined by questionable artery clearing surgery and penis enlargement surgery both are connected to one controversial FDA rule.
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON In 1767, as American colonists’ protestations against “taxation without representation” intensified, a Boston publisher reprinted a book by a British doctor seemingly tailor-made for the growing spirit of independence.Continue reading…
“Every Man His Own Physician,” by Dr. John Theobald, bore an impressive subtitle: ” Being a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies for every disease”
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday June 29 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are futurist Jeff Goldsmith: medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael MillensonContinue reading…
Medicare’s value-based payments to hospitals don’t reflect what its beneficiaries value most, which is clinical outcomes.