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How Should Doctors Spend Their Time?
Breaking: We have a healthcare crisis in this country. Costs are exploding even as a number of key health indictors remain flat or in decline. Several innovative solutions have been proposed to stave off a budgetary crisis, including the recently rolled out Affordable Care Act. And pilot programs continue to seek out new ways to … Continue reading How Should Doctors Spend Their Time?
View More >>More Startups Tackle the Health Care Tangle
American healthcare is in a transitional period. With the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and a growing consensus that current costs are unsustainable, it seems everybody is looking for the next great idea to slash through our nation’s ballooning costs. A recent article in Wired tackles some of the most promising healthcare efforts coming … Continue reading More Startups Tackle the Health Care Tangle
View More >>Need a Doctor? There’s an App for That
Nothing is better at sniffing out inefficiencies than capitalism. In this spirit, a number of upstart companies and social media mavens are trying do for healthcare what Yelp did for restaurants (but never quite pulled off for doctors). Many of the most successful new companies are built around the idea that finding medical care is … Continue reading Need a Doctor? There’s an App for That
View More >>Patients Make the Best Decisions
I have written before about how our healthcare system tends to reward bad choices: too much medicine, too many procedures, not enough benefit. Now there is some indication that a simple solution might help solve this problem: giving patients better information to let them decide themselves. An Atlantic article recently covered the hot topic of … Continue reading Patients Make the Best Decisions
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