There are many inspirational names in modern-day healthcare and, partially due to reform, room for even more. But a commenter on Reddit posed the question of whether there is anyone who is as well-known and charismatic a spokesperson for medicine as Neil deGrasse Tyson is for astrophysics. (Perhaps medicine is too specialized to have one […]
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive Dr. Atul Gawande wrote a fascinating piece on the speed of innovation for last week’s New Yorker that explores how quickly two great medical innovations, anesthesia and antiseptics, caught hold. He proposes that the drastically different adoption rates of those two discoveries […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Atul Gawande of The New Yorker has another breakthrough article, this time on improving quality and lowering costs through the standardization of care delivered through ever-more-concentrated hospital systems. Don’t miss it. For people like me with long memories, it provides a jarring reminder of the changes that the manufacturing sector went through a generation ago […]
Atul Gawande has a great piece in the New Yorker this week about the difficult and complex management of end stage disease in terminal patients. (See, I don’t always criticize the guy. He writes good stuff.) What happens when we reach the point where further treatment is futile, when death gathers momentum, threatens to overwhelm […]
With Dr. Oz being feted at a gala, and Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon, weighing in on lactose intolerance, I got to thinking. Why the surgical media-monopoly? Don’t believe me? Line ‘em up and take a count: Mehmet Oz, Nancy Snyderman, Manny Alvarez, Atul Gawande, and Sanjay Gupta (surgeon, surgeon, surgeon, surgeon, and…oh wait, what a […]
Merrill Goozner points out that recent legislation won't hold down health care costs because "organized providers have undermined every previous pilot project aimed at making health care more efficient and cost-effective."
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Add two more California hospitals to the FDA's list of health care institutions suspected of exposing patients to dangerous levels of radiation.
Dr. Jeffery Parks finds a kindred spirit speaking out against what he calls "one of the most dangerous acts of anti-physician propaganda to come down the pipeline in twenty years."