Primary care has demonstrated remarkable resilience in spite of the intense pressures of the pandemic, and there is critical work to do to help our nation recover from the wide-ranging consequences of Covid-19.
I have a great job because every day I get to talk to smart people doing interesting work to make healthcare better. In February’s MedCity News Hangout, I spoke with four of those people about big data. The conversation included a designer, a neuroscientist, an expert in consumer payments and a doctor. Each person brought […]
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
As reimbursement moves toward value-based payments, so are healthcare organizations slowly adjusting their physician compensation plans to factor in quality metrics. A new report from healthcare human resources firm SullivanCotter found that most organizations still base physician compensation on productivity. But a third of organizations the firm surveyed said they also used performance-based metrics, like […]
I woke up today and found a weird headline in my inbox: “Med School Debt May Push Docs to Primary Care.” It struck me as weird because I thought it was commonly agreed that the effect is the opposite. To the extent choice of specialty is motivated by concerns over debt repayment, it should push […]