cost-effectiveness
Improve Healthcare's Value or It's Not Affordable
The main tension about healthcare centers around medical need, quality, access and cost-efficiency, i.e., affordability.
These factors are critically linked in reality and theory. The Value Equation shows how they relate to each other and to you.
Basically this means you can increase value by raising quality, improving accessibility and by lowering the cost of care. The "cost of care," however, is the elephant in the room.
6. Access Problems
When patients require specific therapies and an insurance company makes the frail or sickly patients jump thru hoops, denying or delaying care, it's time to move away from the insurance model.
The Sentinel of Managed Care is Predicting Readmissions
Identifying Potentially Preventable Readmissions Obeys Willie Sutton's Law--Go where the money is!
Who's the Keeper of the Commons?
Garrett Hardin, professor of biology, University of California, Santa Barbara’s essay “The Tragedy of the Commons”1 tells us about herders who, not out of greed, but out of practical necessity graze more cattle than the finite, common land can support, ruining it for everyone.
Cost-effectiveness of Total Knee Arthroplasty in the US
The number of U.S. total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures, an effective, established operation, is huge and it is more cost-effective to do TKA in patients with end-stage osteoarthritis than to treat the patient medically, regardless of the hospital TKA volume. Nevertheless, the larger volume hospitals enjoy the better C:E in part because they have lower cost ratios.
Tomorrow's Healtcare Reform, Today
In the NY Times piece, "Shortage of Doctors an Obstacle to Obama Goals," we learn there are "shortages of primary care providers.... the main source of health care for most Americans."
