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PTSD Can Last a Lifetime
Picture this: Late at night, in the middle of winter, a 69-year-old woman, less than 5 feet tall, flees her north suburban home, carrying two shopping bags filled with her belongings. When found...
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Is End-of-Life Care Worthwhile?
Even in the age of advanced healthcare directives and living wills, Americans still must cope with a dilemma when it comes to end-of-life healthcare for themselves or their loved ones. Consider the...
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Burnout Affects 30 Percent of Nurses
With hospitals slashing costs to cope with growing financial pressures, nurses believe that the resulting insufficient staffing is detrimental to patients. A team from the University of Pennsylvania...
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GOP VP Candidate Paul Ryan Advocates “Medicare Premium Support”
Now that Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been selected by former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) as his vice presidential running mate, the debate is focusing on the Wisconsin representative’s plan to...
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Big Medicine Is Watching You
Big Medicine is on the way, according to celebrated author and Harvard professor, Atul Gawande, In a major article in the New Yorker, Gawande describes the new frontier of ICUs as ones where patients...
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Is It Time to Reform the Fee-for-Service Model?
Despite the healthcare industry’s attempts to alter the way in which physician reimbursements are determined, fee-for-service is still the accepted basis for payment. Typically, physicians are...
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Craig Wortmann on Creating Your Business Story
According to Craig Wortmann, Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, people today tend to collect too much information – via Facebook,...
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Non-Profit Hospital Fundraising Soars in 2011
More than $8.9 billion was donated to non-profit hospitals and healthcare systems in 2011 — an all-time high. According to a report from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), that is an...
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2012 Election To Be Pivotal for Healthcare
The 2012 presidential election will impact healthcare delivery in the United States. The question boils down to whether the electorate believes that the free market will control the cost of healthcare...
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The Concierge Revolution: Bringing Back Marcus Welby
During a historic time of change within the healthcare sector, most notably the passage of the $938 billion Affordable Care Act (ACA), which will reduce healthcare spending by $138 billion according...
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ObamaCare: Shambolic or Shining?
The word of the week, courtesy of NY Times columnist, David Brooks, is “shambolic” which he uses to describe ObamaCare as it becomes implemented. As the overhaul of the US health system becomes a...
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Healthcare’s Early Hope?
We have a couple of promising trends emerging from the recent reports. Consumers saved $3.9 billion in premiums last year, according to an analysis released today from the CMS. Why? Because Obamacare...
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DOMA Bites the Dust
The U.S. Supreme Court’s voted 5-4 to strike down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Swing voter Anthony Kennedy joined the liberal wing of the court –Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia...
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Primary Care Gets a Break
There’s no question that primary-care physicians have long been spurned by the fee-for-service model that doesn’t recognize or reimburse fully the time spent with patients. Well, internists had a...
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Dr. Ari Robiszek on Big Data & Healthcare
Big Data have become ubiquitous buzz words for the aggregation of information in data sets and the use of algorithms to define patterns. Overall, the growth of the sector is being driven by the trend...
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The Consolidation Wave in Healthcare
Remember the Telecommunications Act of 1996? This was one of the signature pieces of legislation by the Clinton administration. The 1996 Act was intended to transition our communications laws and...
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Bad News for Jobs Due to ObamaCare? Take the Long View.
So, it’s been a rough January — a second month of anemic job creation, a new CBO report saying that ObamaCare could cost 250,000 jobs and continuing blasts of arctic froideur that have shut down even...
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The Facts of Inequality
Once in a while, an economist comes along who puts out a disarmingly simple concept that seems to cut through the miasma of misinformation that is cable news. Once such person may be Thomas Piketty, a...
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D-Day For Obamacare Means Big Changes For Healthcare
MOBs are getting ready to take center stage as healthcare moves into more of a localized, outpatient setting. By John Driscoll, President, Alter+Care The first of this year was to be Obamacare’s D-Day....
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