CMS Wants Docs to Ante Up to ACO Poker Game
To get doctors and hospitals to participate in the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) experiment, the government has simplified the rules, sweetened the pot and pulled up a few more chairs
WTF? Israeli General Warns of Officers Texting Orders, Being Ignored
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When an Israeli Army officer says, “Follow me!”, the soldiers under his command may be confused whether he means Facebook or a firefight.
It’s Paternity Test Time for Newt, Mitt & Obamacare
It’s paternity test time for Obamacare. Beneath the bogeyman label that the GOP leadership has attached to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the truth is that health reform has almost as many Republican as Democratic fathers. If you care about the country as much as political hand-to-hand combat, that […]
Bin Laden, Patriotism And Our Health Care Crisis
In the near-decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the “War on Terror” has cost the United States about $1.3 trillion, according to the National Center on Defense Information. By comparison, it took just six months for the U.S. to spend that…
Medicare’s ACO Regs Recall MAD’s Squamish Rulebook
After sitting through a 90-minute webinar by a Washington law firm on Medicare’s new draft regulations for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), I realized why they sounded familiar. In their complexity and utter failure to accomplish their purpose – give doctors and hospitals a clear financial incentive to reorganize care delivery […]
Watson: A Computer So Smart It Can Say, “Yes, Doctor”
Game Show Watson wants to be a doctor. Well, almost.
Watson: A Computer So Smart It Can Say, “Yes, Doctor”
Physician Assistant Watson? Forget the sound of of a world champion Jeopardy star. Watson, can you say, “Yes, Doctor”?
Health IT: A Tale of Three Watsons
The future of medicine lies somewhere between the mainframe and the telephone.
Why Aren’t The Uninsured Protesting In The Streets Like The Egyptians?
Maybe the uninsured could learn something from Egyptians and the Arab street. At a time when landmark health reform granting most of the uninsured access to medical care for the first time in their lives is being seriously threatened, protests by the u…
Why Aren’t The Uninsured Protesting In The Streets Like The Egyptians?
Maybe the uninsured could learn something from Egyptians and the Arab street. At a time when landmark health reform granting most of the uninsured access to medical care for the first time in their lives is being seriously threatened, protests by the u…