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Physicians' Financial Challenges | Ranked by Difficulty (2009) | Health Populi - 0 views

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Among the top ten most challenging issues facing American doctors, 7 in 10 directly involve economics

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Keeping the Patient in the Equation-Humanism and Health Care Reform. - 0 views

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The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited | Health Care Reform 2009 - 0 views

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Providers, payers, and patients - do what is in their best interest without concern for cost or effectiveness. This focus is appealing in the short run but leads to a destructive endgame.

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Why Paying for Health Care Reform Is Difficult and Essential - Numbers and Rules | Heal... - 0 views

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Why Paying for Health Care Reform Is Difficult and Essential - Numbers and Rules. In a short few paragraphs, Dr. Aaron elegantly simplifies and quantifies why finding the $1 trillion for universal coverage is so difficult. He concludes, realistically, soberly,

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Why Paying for Health Care Reform Is Difficult and Essential - Numbers and Rules. In a short few paragraphs, Dr. Aaron elegantly simplifies and quantifies why finding the $1 trillion for universal coverage is so difficult. He concludes, realistically, soberly,</div>

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Health info seekers share less with doctors--A new, peer-2-peer, participatory healthcare? - 0 views

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Americans conduct their own online medical information research--many as a short-term replacement for visits to providers. Is this a sign of the new peer-to-peer, participatory healthcare?

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Health Policy Brief | Aug 20, 2009 | Robert Wood Johnson | Health Affairs - 0 views

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Key Issues in Health Reform: l The federal government's role in financing and delivering health care l Lowering the rate of growth of Medicare spending l Advance care planning for serious illness

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Center for Information Therapy - 0 views

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Information Therapy (Ix®) is the timely prescription and availability of evidence-based health information to meet individuals' specific needs and support sound decision making. Ix prescriptions are specifically targeted to an individual's needs at a particular moment in care and are delivered as part of the process of care.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Information Therapy (Ix®) is the timely prescription and availability of evidence-based health information to meet individuals' specific needs and support sound decision making. Ix prescriptions are specifically targeted to an individual's needs at a particular moment in care and are delivered as part of the process of care.</div>

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Health Affairs Blog | Aug 27, 2009 | Senator Edward Kennedy And American Health Care Po... - 0 views

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Democratic and Republican politicians, policy experts, and former Senate staff write about the senator's many contributions.

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Health Affairs Blog | Aug 2009 | Moving From Volume-Driven Medicine Toward Accountable ... - 0 views

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Accountable care organizations (ACOs) represent a critical step away from volume-driven health care payment and toward better health and better care at lower cost.

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Is Technological Change In Medicine Always Worth It? The Case Of Acute Myocardial Infar... - 0 views

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Skinner JS, Staiger DO, Fisher ES. Is technological change in medicine always worth it? The case of acute myocardial infarction. Health Aff (Millwood) 2006;25:w34-w47.

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NEJM 2009 | Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs: Lessons from Regional Variation - 0 views

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Dr. Fisher is a professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, Dr. Bynum an assistant professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, and Dr. Skinner a professor of economics and of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, where Dr. Fisher also directs the Center for Health Policy Research, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Dr. Fisher is a professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, Dr. Bynum an assistant professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, and Dr. Skinner a professor of economics and of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, where Dr. Fisher also directs the Center for Health Policy Research, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.</div>

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An Agenda for Change: Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending - 0 views

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An Agenda for Change: Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending

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Presentations | Reducing Unwarranted Variation in Healthcare Delivery - 0 views

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Understanding High Value Care and Reducing Unwarranted Variation in Health Care Delivery: A Collaborative Project of the Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Health Care and The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences

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Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness || Dartmouth Atlas of Health ... - 0 views

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The Policy Implications of Variations in Medicare Spending Growth || Dartmouth Atlas of... - 0 views

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Health Care Spending, Quality and Outcomes | Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care - 0 views

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Health Care Spending, Quality and Outcomes

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Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care || Medical Resource Use & Distribution in the U.S. - 0 views

How American Health Care Killed My Father | David Goldhill | September 2009 | - 0 views

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Sepsis. Hospital-acquired infection. Deadly.

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OECD Health Update || Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) - 0 views

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Analysis & report regarding health spending in the current (2008-09) economic crisis. Health Update No. 7, produced by the International Coordination Group for Health (ICGH)

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Healthcare 100 : Top 100 Medicine Blogs - 0 views

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