The first part of this article set a general context for health IT in 2017 and started through the year with a review of interesting articles and studies...
Quality
The previous part of this article ripped apart the use of the words “insurance” and “market” to characterize healthcare. Not...
Reading the daily papers, I have gotten increasingly frustrated at the misunderstandings that journalists and the public bring to the debates of over health...
The first part of this article described different approaches to quality–and in fact to different qualities. In this part, I’ll look at the...
Assessing the quality of medical care is one of the biggest analytical challenges in health today. Every patient expects–and deserves–treatment...
Clinical decision support is a long-standing occupant of the medical setting. It got in the door with electronic medical records, and has recently received a...
Price and quality of care–those are what we’d like to know when we need a medical procedure. But a perusal of a recent report from the Government...
Among the dirty words most hated by health care consumers–such as “capitation” and “insufficient medical necessity”–a...
Some of the best and most objective information about EMRs comes from the Center for Health IT at the American Academy of Family Practice. Real doctors who...