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Integrating health systems must be to improve quality, not increase cost

Unknown 10:12 AM Add Comment Bavley, Bloomberg, Brownlee, Dartmouth Atlas, employed physicians, facility fee, Health Affairs, Medicare, Primary care, Rosenthal, Saini, White Edit

Integrating health systems must be to improve quality, not increase cost

The February 13, 2014 article in the New York Times by Elisabeth Rosenthal, “ Apprehensive, many doctors shift to jobs with salaries ”, mor...

Unknown 7:06 AM Add Comment book, communication, Far Side, Ginger dog, lost in translation, population health, sabbatical, themes, Theresa Brown Edit

Medical communication is indeed often "lost in translation"

I often write about the things that I believe make a big difference in the health of people. Some of these are access to the health system, ...

Health care systems should not be run for profit, but rather for people's health

Unknown 10:00 AM Add Comment Abelson, Creswell, Department of Justice, HCA, HMA, management, Medicare, profit, qui tam, Skolnick, whisteblower Edit

Health care systems should not be run for profit, but rather for people's health

I wrote in a recent blog (“ How can a health care system lead not to ruin but to, actually, health? ”, December 28, 2013) that our health ca...

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