I suppose I need to say something
I ' m usually reluctant to post here about whatever the BIG STORY is of the day, because everybody else is talking about it and, unless it has to do with medical sociology or health services policy, I don ' t necessarily have anything of particular value to add. In this regard I am unlike the columnists who get paid high six figure salaries to become instant experts on everything in the New York Times. However, I don ' t think I can avoid the Israel-Palestine conflict (it isn ' t exactly a war because it ' s so massively asymmetrical) and the student protests around the country.I ' m not going to spend a lot of words on th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 3, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Political Science
I always do my best to write clearly and precisely, but it seems I don ' t always manage to get my meaning across. So let ' s try a couple of ideas again. Please read carefully, and think about what I actually write, not what you think I might think or what other people think. The First Amendment applies only to government. It constrains what government can do, it does not place any constraint of any kind on any other entity. The courts have interpreted it a bit more broadly than its literal language. If " congress shall make no law . . . " then the executive cannot have any legal authority to do what no law permits. ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 10, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
New U-RISE and MARC Funding Opportunities and Upcoming Webinar
We’re pleased to announce that the notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) (PAR-24-137) and Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) (PAR-24-138) programs have been reissued. These NOFOs aim to promote broad participation in the biomedical research workforce by strengthening research training environments and expanding the pool of well-trained students who:
Complete their baccalaureate degree, and
Transition into and complete biomedical, research-focused higher degree programs (such as a Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.).
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Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 9, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Meetings/Events Training/Fellowships/Career Development Preparing an Application Undergraduate Webinars Source Type: blogs
Disparities between physician and C-suite contracts [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, health care attorney Dennis Hursh delves into the contentious issue of executive compensation within the health care sector. With a critical eye on the disparities between physician and C-suite salaries, Dennis examines the challenges of obtaining accurate data
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Disparities between physician and C-suite contracts [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 4, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs
An assessment of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL)
When our second grant for the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) was ending in 2019, we wanted to take the opportunity to look back on the program, through the eyes of the 124 participants who had been through the program. The grant funding had been given to us to devise a model for continuing education for professional librarians and archivists with an interest in conducting research, so part of our looking back was to see if the model we designed had been impactful. We wanted to know about the possible short-term impacts, as well as longer-term impacts, the program had on their career trajectories, fro...
Source: Organization Monkey - March 18, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: library Source Type: blogs
Economics 101, Lesson One
One
way you can create jobs is to lower people ' s taxes. If people have more money
to spend, it means somebody has got to produce more for them. And the producers
then need to hire people. It ' s Economics 101! -- George W. Bush, Springfield, MO,
January 14, 2002*Mr. Bush was very fond of saying " It ' s Economics 101! " It was a catch phrase for him, and other politicians often say it. But can you think of a critique of the above statement? Is there anything wrong about it?(Jeopardy! music plays.) Okay. When government acquiresrevenue from taxes, what happens to the money? Does it just disappear? Why no.T...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Putting the ‘value’ in value-based payments
By JOSH SEIDMAN
Like Matthew Holt, I have also been ranting about the fact that “We’re spending way too much money on stuff that is the wrong thing.” As Matthew said, “it’s a rant, but a rant with a point!” And that’s a lot better than most rants these days. In addition to having a point, I’m also bringing a lot of data to my rant.
More specifically, we’ve known for a long time that clinical care only drives 20% (maybe less) of health outcomes, yet we continue to spend more and more on it.
We do that despite the well-documented fact that the U.S. performs worse than most OECD countries despite sp...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy clubhouses Josh Seidman SDoH Serious Mental Illness Source Type: blogs
Why Not, Indeed?
By KIM BELLARD
Recently in The Washington Post, author Daniel Pink initiated a series of columns he and WaPo are calling “Why Not?” He believes “American imagination needs an imagination shot.” As he describes the plan for the columns: “In each installment, I’ll offer a single idea — bold, surprising, maybe a bit jarring — for improving our country, our organizations or our lives.”
I love it. I’m all in. I’m a “why not?” guy from way back, particularly when it comes to health care.
Mr. Pink describes three core values (in the interest of space, I’m excerpting his descriptions):
Curi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Adam Nagourney Daniel Pink Kim Bellard Why Not Source Type: blogs
What is the correlation between number of doctors in a society & health of population ?
This query is lingering ever since I entered the medical profession. Though, this question might appear absurd , no correct answer is found yet .When we search the literature, the relationship between doctors and health can be 1.linear, 2.non linear, and 3. even inverse . 1 & 2 are ok 3 is forbidden.
However, to put it in a nut-shell, healthiness of a society is little to do with Doctor population alone, is well known and I think it needs no proof. The following scattergram gives some idea about the Issue.
Where to get answer for this controversial question ? Great times we are in. We have taught the machine...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - February 6, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized doctors health healthcare medicine Source Type: blogs
The Money ’ s in the Wrong Place. How to Fund Primary Care
By MATTHEW HOLT
I was invited on the Health Tech Talk Show by Kat McDavitt and Lisa Bari and I kinda ranted (go to 37.16 here) about why we don’t have primary care, and where we should find the money to fix it. I finally got around to writing it up. It’s a rant but a rant with a point!
We’re spending way too much money on stuff that is the wrong thing.
30 years ago, I was taught that we were going to have universal health care reform. And then we were going to have capitated at-risk entities. then below that, you have all these tech enabled services, which are going to make all this stuff work an...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt ACA ACO CVS FQHCs Health Systems hedge funds Hospitals Medisync primary care Walgreens Walmart Source Type: blogs
The Big Consult: Additional Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service
The previous article in this series laid out key criteria for choosing a digital solution to clinical problems. We’ll continue with some other less known, but still important, criteria in this article.
In addition to the traits mentioned in the previous article, several others were cited by Christine Vogel, lead nurse educator at UbiSim:
Ease of use: the vendor needs to bring in user experience (UX) designers and subject-matter experts.
Flexibility: Because no two clinical sites are quite alike, the technology should be easy to adapt to each site.
Accessibility: People with different physical and intellectual abilit...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arcadia care.ai Christine Vogel Cindy Koppen Clever Care Health Plan Colin Banas Denistry.One DrFirst Equality Health Health IT Selection Ka Source Type: blogs
Why is health care so expensive in the U.S.?
It seems inquiring minds want to know, and rightly so. In fact, we spend about twice as much on medical goods and services as the average wealthy country (defined for most purposes as members of the OECD), and something like three times as much as Japan, but we also have the lowest life expectancy of all those countries, and Japan, that spends the least on so-called health care, has the highest.WTF is going on here? We can usefully decompose the issue into four parts, or maybe 4 1/2, but in the end it all comes down to one main problem. The four and a half parts are 1) prices for medical goods and services are higher in th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 12, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Virtual Meeting for Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) Applicants
We’re pleased to announce a virtual “office hour” on January 10 for potential applicants to our Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP).
PREP’s goal is to develop a diverse pool of well-trained postbaccalaureates who will transition into and complete rigorous biomedical, research-focused doctoral degree programs (such as Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.) in biomedical fields relevant to the NIGMS mission.
During the meeting, we’ll provide a brief overview of the PREP funding opportunity and answer your programmatic, budget, and scientific review questions. Those interested in joining the office hour are...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 2, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Meetings/Events Training/Fellowships/Career Development Preparing an Application Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 1st 2024
Discussion of What is Need to Speed the Pace at which Drugs to Treat Aging Arrive in the Clinic
Cellular Senescence in the Aging Brain, a Contributing Cause of Cognitive Decline
Reviewing What is Known of the Mechanisms of Taurine Supplementation Relevant to Aging and Metabolism
Blunt Thoughts on Calculating the Revealed Value of Human Life
A Look Back at 2023: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
Towards Adjustment of the Gut Microbiome to Slow Aging
Gene Therapy Enhances Object Recognition Memory in Young and Old Mice
Benefits of Sem...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Blunt Thoughts on Calculating the Revealed Value of Human Life
Bloodless, heartless calculations of the value of your life are constantly taking place behind the curtains that society politely draws over some of the uglier realities of the human condition. Interactions with insurance companies might be the most visible signs of these calculations, but this is the tip of the iceberg. Humans assign value instinctively; to value is to be human. We don't just value objects, we value our lives, we value the lives of others. Based on an analysis of our actions, i.e. revealed preferences, one can estimate monetary equivalents to those life valuations and how they shift with time and circumst...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 28, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
