The Most Expensive Medicare Patients Aren ’t Who You Think
Over half of Medicare spending is concentrated in 10% of patients. With Medicare expenditures rising at an unsustainable clip, reigning in the costs of those patients is key to controlling healthcare spending. So who are those patients and what expenses are … Continue reading →
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 27, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: PeterUbel.com Tags: Health Care Peter Ubel syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Conquest of the United States by China
In 1898, after the United States ’ quick victory in the Spanish-American war, the great Yale social scientist William Graham Sumner gave a speech titled “The Conquest of the United States by Spain. ” He told his audience, “We have beaten Spain in a military conflict, but we are submitting to be conquered by her on the field of ideas and policies.”He argued that early Americans “came here to isolate themselves from the social burdens and inherited errors of the old world” and chose to “to strip off all the follies and errors which they had inherited…. They would have no court and no pomp; no orders, or rib...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
When an EHR is hacked by Russians
Hippocrates didn’t have a server. In 2012 our practice invested $300,000 into building computer infrastructure and the purchase of a brand-spanking-new electronic health record, commonly referred to as an EHR. The mandate for this purchase was brought forth from the federal government with the intent to improve overall health care communication. Since this expenditure, terms […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/daniel-ricchiuti" rel="tag" > Daniel Ricchiuti, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Tech Health IT Urology Source Type: blogs
Virtual Bodies For Real Drugs: In Silico Clinical Trials Are The Future
Traditional clinical trials are equivalent of billions of dollars and years of hard work with no guarantee for the new drug to be approved by regulatory bodies, not to speak about the dangers of testing medication on animals and/or humans. What if we could take a radical turn? What if we conducted clinical trials on virtual bodies that could perfectly mimic human physiology? With the help of artificial intelligence, enhanced computer simulations, and advances in personalized medicine, in silico trials might be a reality in the coming years.
The magic expression is in
silico
As technologies transform every aspect of h...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine AI artificial intelligence clinical clinical trial clinical trials digital drug drugs in silico in silico trials Innovation medication simulation virtual Source Type: blogs
A Proposal to Improve Healthcare and Make It More Affordable
By STEVE ZECOLA
Americans spend about $3 trillion
per year on healthcare, or about $10,000 per person per year. Despite these
expenditures, Americans are worse off than their international counterparts
with respect to infant mortality, life expectancy and the prevalence of chronic
conditions.
In policy debates, Republicans
mostly prefer to let the marketplace devise the appropriate outcomes, but this
approach ignores the market failures that plague the industry.
On the other hand, Democrats propose
a variety of solutions such as “Medicare for All” which nationalizes all
healthcare insurance or, as a variant, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare For All Source Type: blogs
New York Threatens Legislative Crusader With Unregistered-Lobbyist Fines
As part of a one-woman crusade to call attention to sexual abuse, with the goal of getting New York to ease its law on the filing of abuse lawsuits, Kat Sullivan bought billboards, started a website, and hired a plane to pull a banner. Now, according topress reports, New York ’s state ethics agency, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, has been after her with repeated warnings that she may have exceeded a $5,000 limit on expenditures for advocacy of legislation. From Chris Bragg’s reporting in theAlbany Times-Union:JCOPE staffers have left eight voicemails for Sullivan over the past year. She has taken part in ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 2, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
New Budget Deal Reveals Need for Federal Balanced Budget Amendment
The recent budget deal that was agreed to by President Trump and Congressional leaders has fiscal conservatives livid. This deal raises discretionary spending caps by over $300 billion over two years and effectively repeals the budget caps that were established as part of the Budget Control Act in 2011. The frustration of budget hawks is certainly understandable. While the rest of the budget has grown in recent years, non-defense discretionary spending has actually fallen in constant dollars since 2011. However, seasoned observers of fiscal policy knew it was unlikely to last. After all, there is plenty of evidence that le...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 31, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Michael J. New Source Type: blogs
A Different Look at After-Tax Income Inequality
Every presidential candidate promises to “reduce income inequality” by raising tax rates on the rich and increasing transfer payments (including tax credits and in-kind benefits) for the middle class. Yet the widely-usedflawed data from Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saezexcludeboth taxes and transfers. Income measures that exclude taxes and transfers cannot tell us whether taxes or transfers are high or low, and cannot be directly affected by higher taxes on some or higher transfers to others (because such policies are ignored in the data).A simple table adapted from the 2017 Consumer Expenditure Survey, from the Bu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 25, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
NIGMS Administrative Supplements for Helium Recovery Systems
We’re offering administrative supplements to NIGMS-funded P20, P30, P41, R01, R35, R37, and RM1 awards for the purchase of helium recovery systems. The deadline for these supplement applications is August 5, 2019.
Note that:
These funds are intended for the purchase of a single system with requested direct costs up to $250,000.The requested supplemental budget cannot exceed the total-year direct cost amount of the parent award. Applications may not include requests for future-year funds.For these supplements, we request one application from an NIGMS grantee on behalf of all active NIGMS-funded resea...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 11, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Resources Administrative Supplements Research Resources Source Type: blogs
Reforming Passenger Rail
The United States is more socialistic than other advanced economies in numerous ways. Federal and state governments attempt to run businesses that have been privatized in other countries, such aselectric utilities,airports,air traffic control,postal services, and passenger rail.The federal government took over passenger rail after it helped ruin private passenger rail with taxes, regulations, and unions in the post-WWII years. Remaining passenger rail routes were assembled into Amtrak in the 1970s, which was supposed to become self-supporting but has consumed billions of dollars in subsidies.Today, Amtrak operates 44 rou...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
How Could Digital Health Fight Against The Climate Catastrophe?
Climate change is the
greatest health challenge of the 21st century, and threatens all aspects of society,
says
the WHO in its COP24 Special Report. What could digital health technologies
do to support the fight against the climate crisis? How could healthcare
processes, facilities, medical devices become more sustainable? As it is
humanity’s priority to mitigate the worsening as well as the impact of rising
temperatures and extreme weather events, we tried to figure out what role
digital health could assume here. We found many options – and even more
possibilities for future development.
The climate crisis is our ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 11, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine air asthma climate climate catastrophe climate change climate crisis digital digital health efficient Healthcare mosquito optimize resilience solar sustainability technology Source Type: blogs
Reviewing Resistance Training as an Intervention to Reduce Chronic Disease Risk
A sizable body of evidence points to the ability of resistance training undertaken in later life to reduce the risk of suffering age-related disease, and to improve the prognosis for existing diseases. In a glass half empty sort of a viewpoint, we might take this to mean that next to nobody puts in the effort necessary to maintain the body in an optimal state of health. A surprisingly sizable fraction of the declines in strength and fitness observed in the wealthier parts of the world are actually self-inflicted, not an inevitable consequence of aging. This is particularly apparent in comparisons with hunter-gatherer popul...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 11, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Illegal Immigrants – and Other Non-Citizens – Should Not Receive Government Healthcare
Last week during one of their debates, all Democratic primary candidates supported government health care forillegal immigrants. This type of position is extremely damaging politically and, if enacted, would unnecessarily burden taxpayers for likely zero improvements in health outcomes. I expect the eventual Democratic candidate for president to not support this type of proposal, but it should be nipped in the bud.After the debate, Democratic candidate Julian Castro argued that extending government health care to illegal immigrants would not be a big deal. “[W]e already pay for the health care of undocumented immigrants,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Estimates of the impact of English public health grant on mortality and morbidity
Centre for Health Economics - Most previous attempts to estimate the marginal productivity of English health care expenditure have employed instruments that rely on statistical tests alone for their justification. A new approach to instrumentation has proposed the use of ‘funding rule’ variables as instruments, which can be justified on theoretical grounds. This paper exploits the availability of a funding formula for local authority (LA) public health expenditure in England to investigate the relationship between such expenditure and mortality.Research paperMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 8, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
The Fed's Chicago Shindig
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the Federal Reserve ’s much-anticipated conference on “Monetary Policy Strategy, Tools, and Communication Practices. ” This was the “research” component of a series ofFed Listens events kicked off this February and wrapped-up last week. The aim of the series was to allow Fed officials “to hear perspectives from representatives of business and industry, labor leaders, community and economic development officials, academics, nonprofit organization executives, and others” concerning how the Fed might more perfectly fulfill its mandate.To call both the Chicago confe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
