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Better Healthcare for Less — Even the NY Times Says: “It’s a movement!”
By Joe Flower I’ve been saying it for years now, it’s the theme of Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right For Half The Cost — and now it’s even hit the editorial pages of the NY Times: A June 2...
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Outlawing Templated Notes in the Electronic Health Record
By Jaan Sidorov, MD It was just a matter of time until this would happen. Buried in the middle of this New York Times article on The Ups and Downs of Electronic Medical Records is the observation that...
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The HIT Job
By Bob Wachter, MD I’m well aware that a good fraction of the people in this country – let’s call them Rush fans – spend their lives furious at the New York Times. I am not one of them. I love the Grey...
View ArticleHiMSS Countdown, with Matthew Holt
By Matthew Holt Early this week Greg Masters and Pat Salber chatted with me for a fun convo about EMRs, NOLA, HIMSS, and alot more. It’s part of their overall series for the HIBCtv (Health Innovation...
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An Anesthesiologist Thinks Out Loud
By Shirie Leng, MD Anyone who has read my work knows that articles like the one written in the New York Times on Sunday by Elisabeth Rosenthal will immediately get a response out of me. If you haven’t...
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The 9th Grade Class Does Obamacare Math (Can Journalists Do the Same?)
By Michael L. Millenson Welcome, students, to our special combined 9th grade math and civics class. Today, we’re going to look at the “Cadillac tax” in the Affordable Care Act. Yes, Mitt, you have a...
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Why PCORI Should Be Very Wary of Studying Medical Devices
By Peter Ubel, MD In the New York Times on Thursday, October 17, Topher Spiro wrote an important op-ed expressing why we need to hold onto the medical device tax that helps pay for parts of the...
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A Deeper Dive into the Rio Grande Valley
FARZAD MOSTASHARI, MD Last week, Dr. Bob Kocher and I took to the pages of the New York Times to detail a health care success story in Southern Texas. In a region once featured for its extreme health...
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Recalling To Err’s Impact and a Small (But Telling) IOM Mistake
By MICHAEL MILLENSON This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)’s To Err is Human report, which famously declared that from 44,000 to 98,000 Americans died each year from...
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How a Simple Little Pill Ended Up Costing 1000 Percent More Than Its Ingredients
By DEVON HERRICK A recent New York Times article profiled a pair of ultra-expensive pain medications designed to go easy on the stomach. Common pain relievers, like aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen are...
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