How Health Information Technology Is Failing to Achieve Its Full Potential
兰德公司（Rand Corporation）进行的一项最新研究调查了大多数影响医师满意度的因素。1许多医师期望的许多医生期望这些调查结果包括人们在意见社论中可能看到的通常的投诉和主要专业组织的新闻稿，例如“下降医疗保险报销”，“增加的法规”，“增加的法规”或“ Malpractice Reform”。第一个主要发现，即健康信息技术如何无法实现其全部潜力的第一个主要发现首先出现在偶然的经济学家上。
Why opioid substitution therapy is not just replacing one addiction for another
The following is the text of my email to Peter Friedmann, Brown University Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice and an expert on substance use and addiction medicine: In response to my NYT piece on treatment for opioid dependence, I received email with a question
Data Management: A Unified Approach
Based on a recent IDG Research study, this white paper describes how to get the most out of your data management efforts by making sure your IT and business teams work together. Learn practical tips for creating a unified strategy that supports both the operational and analytical systems.
From Robert Pear and Jonathan Weisman: Republicans are dusting off proposals that date back more than a decade: allowing individuals to buy health insurance across state lines, helping small businesses band together to buy insurance, offering generous tax deductions for the purchase of individual po
From Aspirin, Angioplasty, and Proton Beam Therapy: The Economics of Smarter Health Care Spending by Baicker and Chandra: There is also a substantial literature at the provider level showing that practice pattern norms drive similar care for all of the patients that a provider sees, regardless of in
Malpractice risk, by physician specialty
A new paper in NEJM by Anupam Jena, Seth Seabury, Darius Lakdawalla, and Amitabh Chandra illuminates many of the important aspects of malpractice risk: how it varies by specialty, how many claims lead to payments, the size of payments, the chance of a claim in a year and over a career, etc. Accordin
Most preventable medical errors do not result in a paid claim
Paid physician malpractice claims for adverse events in 2009 (from Bishop, Ryan & Casalino in this week’s JAMA): Inpatient 4910 Outpatient 4448 Both 966 Total 10,739 By way of comparison (my calculations): Incidence Number of US hospitals 5,795 <1 per hospital/year Number of admissions 37,479,709 0.
