outcomes
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.
Accountability for Morbidity & Mortality
Yearly, approximately 100,000 patients die of health care–associated infections, about another 100,000 die from other preventable errors, and "tens of thousands more die of diagnostic errors or failure to receive recommended therapies."1-3
Delaying Shots = No Benefit; But Risky
Delaying childhood vaccinations, or not getting immunized at all, does not provide any neuropsychological benefits for children at 7 to 10 years of age and might even result in poorer outcomes on some measures.
The Value of Testing
Diagnostic testing, especially imaging, has increased extraordinarily in the U.S. and in a very inefficient, if not ineffective way. Here's a plausible explanation, why and what to do about it.
Managed Care 101 in 2010-a Mini-Series (First set of blogs at MDNG.com)
"Managed Care 101 in 2010" runs the gamut from how you measure and do something about value in health care, to cost-comparisons, to who you can and cannot trust, to the rights and obligations of patients and practitioners, and the purlicue--how to fight back.
Managed Care Mindset Results in a Coronary
Tim Russert’s sudden death last week at 58 from a heart attack was another statistic in that he was being treated for CAD and his doctors “did not realize how severe the disease was." Is the managed care mindset detrimental to getting the right care at the right time and place??
