When Doctors Compete, Everyone Wins
April 30, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
The cost of medical care should be as clear as the cost of groceries, says OkCopay founder and PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Touré McCluskey.
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Spending Money to Save Money in Health Care
April 5, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Investing in programs that prevent chronic diseases would ultimately decrease the costly long-term expenditures driven by those diseases, Ashok Reddy writes.
Health Care Costs are Killing Us
January 4, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
This post is part of the "Health Care in 2013" series.
Improving Medical Education to Focus on Delivering Value to Patients
October 8, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Health care professionals looking to become a part of the solution to stemming rising costs while still providing high-quality care.
Hospital Pricing for Appendectomy Varies Widely, RWJF Scholar Finds
April 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
An appendectomy in California could cost anywhere from $1,500 to more than $180,000, even at the same hospital or within the same county, according to a study led by RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar Renee Y. Hsia, MD, MSc. The study, published this we ...
The Imperative to Reduce Cost Without Sacrificing Health
January 3, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Poor chronic care management is often associated with systems-level failures such as lack of electronic data sharing among practitioners, or lack of care coordination for patients for multiple chronic conditions who struggle to adhere to complex med ...
What Causes High Health Care Costs in the United States?
September 8, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Let me explain a little more about how the comparison of the cross-national educational cost comparison works. This requires taking account of the length spent in training and education, which is time physicians could have spent earning money doing ...
Dementia’s Growing Cost to Caregivers
April 29, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A recent RAND study offers some of the most comprehensive and credible estimates to date of the monetary costs of dementia in the United States.
The Global Cardiovascular Risk Score: A New Performance Measure for Prevention
April 12, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
On April 9, NCQA announced a new approach to measuring quality that aims to reduce patients’ risk of heart disease and stroke. David Eddy of Archimedes, Inc., discusses what this means for providers in a post for The Health Care Blog.
Making Health Care Quality Meaningful to Patients
April 9, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Through a National Committee for Quality Assurance project, we hope to give doctors, nurses and other clinicians 'permission' to refocus on what is important for patients – good health outcomes.