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Unnecessary Care on the Diane Rehm Show
If you missed the broadcast (and our live-tweeting!) this morning, be sure to check out the great discussion of Choosing Wisely, unnecessary care, and what patients and providers can do about it on the...
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Big Win for Public Health - F.D.A. Style
In case you missed it, the FDA came out with new rules last week to limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals. While at first glance this might seem unrelated to health issues in humans, it actually...
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A Market-based Case for the ACA
The Supreme Court will soon pass down their decision on the most hotly-contested and highly influential policy decisions in recent years: the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As CNN has put it, this is "an...
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Health Wonk Review: SCOTUS edition
The health wonks have responded en masse to the Supreme Court's decision on the ACA. Here are the links to this special edition of Health Wonk Review.Part 1Part 2
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31 Things the House Could Have Done...
Last week the house voted to repeal Obamacare... again. This marks the 31st time that they have voted to repeal, defund, or otherwise try to hamper the PPACA, even though they have known that such...
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Drug Regulation, Symbolic Votes, and Hospital Safety
Here's our wrap-up of last week's articles by our own Shannnon Brownlee and Joe Colucci:Letting Big Pharma Review Its Own Drugs — What Could Go Wrong? (The Atlantic Health Channel):Earlier this month...
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NEJM Headed in the Right Direction on Overuse
The New England Journal of Medicine just published a great article about physician stewardship as it relates to medical spending. The piece, called "Cents and Sensitivity—Teaching Physicians to Think...
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Advanced Screening of "Escape Fire" in NYC
On Friday August 6th, the New America Foundation will be hosting an advanced screening of "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare." The event will take place in New York City from...
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For Your Thursday Enjoyment: Health Wonk Review!
Hosted this week by Dr. Jaan Sidorov at the Disease Management Care Blog, it's "A Brainy Health Wonk Review on Health Reform, the Affordable Care Act and Lots More!" Go check it out.Health Wonk Review...
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Guest post on Delve Into '12!
We don't often weigh in on electoral politcs here on New Health Dialogue, but the introduction of Paul Ryan into the race as Mitt Romney's running mate has distinctly shifted the focus of the debate...
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Tara Parker-Pope Highlights Overtreatment Harms
Tara Parker-Pope, Well columnist for the New York Times website, highlighted overtreatment as a serious problem in a blog post yesterday. The post describes several people's direct experiences with...
View ArticleThe Cost of Assuming Doctors Know Best
September 28, 2012 The successes of a hospital system in Washington state is a strong signal that patient decision aids are powerful quality-improving, cost-cutting tools -- but change is stalled by...
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60 Minutes on HMA Admission Practices
Last night, CBS's 60 Minutes aired a segment reporting on the allegations that for-profit hospital chain Health Management Associates (HMA) has committed widespread Medicare fraud, including by...
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156 Questionable Procedures
Australia's Medicare system took a big step toward cheaper and more effective healthcare recently by ordering a systematic compilation of procedures that are harmful, not supported by evidence,...
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Health Wonk Review!
Last week's Health Wonk Review is worth checking out--it has posts on a whole slew of topics, ranging from implementation of the ACA to Medicare readmissions penalties, and more. It's also stocked with...
View ArticleWhat 'Health Care Costs' Really Means
December 22, 2012 Framing our problem in terms of "costs" is a misrepresentation of the real challenge -- how to slow the increase in spending. Shannon BrownleeJoe ColucciDecember 22, 2012No fiscal...
View ArticleShould Jerry Brown Just Ignore His Cancer?
January 2, 2013 Governor’s choice of radiation therapy could cause more harm than doing nothing at all. Shannon BrownleeJanuary 2, 2013As California’s oldest governor, Jerry Brown has gone out of his...
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Please, stop talking about "health care costs."
"Health care costs" are a constant companion of budget wonks, showing up in every discussion of long-term fiscal policy and discussions of healthcare reform going back decades. But in an Atlantic...
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Productivity and the Health Care Workforce
October 2, 2013Shannon BrownleeJoe Colucci Thom Walsh, Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.[Click here to download the full paper.]Since...
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Productivity Measurement in the United States Health System
October 2, 2013Joe Colucci Rick McKellar, Harvard Medical School, and Michael Chernew, Harvard Medical School Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.Improving productivity in health care is,...
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