…Because Canada has a policy of controlling drug prices through its national health insurance system. As Deborah Stone, a health policy expert at Dartmouth, has observed, it’s not the drugs…
U.S. Will Offer Doctors Free Electronic Records System
…software giveaway could transform American medicine, said Dr. John Wasson, a Dartmouth Medical School health care researcher. But, Dr. Wasson added, it may take a while. “If you look at…
Vermont needs a single-payer system
…the term was first used by Elliot Fisher of Dartmouth, that for a variety of reasons it became a popular idea, and that once it caught on it became part…
Are private insurers better than Medicare in controlling costs in McAllen?
…age of sixty-five to researchers at the University of Texas School of Public Health and Dartmouth. This week, in the journal Health Affairs, the researchers published their findings. They discovered…
The Best Care Anywhere
Ten years ago, veterans hospitals were dangerous, dirty, and scandal-ridden. Today, they're producing the highest quality care in the country. Their turnaround points the way toward solving America's health-care crisis.
…by Dartmouth Medical School published last October in Health Affairs. It found that even among the “best hospitals,” as rated by U.S. News & World Report, Medicare patients with the…
Do we want to avoid low-value care?
…clinical judgement and being sure that the patient is well informed play a crucial role. This is also where those citing the Dartmouth studies hope to reduce health care spending….
High-deductible health plans foster bad decisions by rich and poor
…no impact on total national health care spending. (It is in this sector where most of the Dartmouth variations occur, but that is another topic.) For the four-fifths of us…
Will Mayo Clinic save money as an ACO?
…the most common example given of the variations in the costs of health care demonstrated by the Dartmouth Atlas was the high costs of health care in Boca Raton, Florida…
Beware of “Commercial ACOs”
…child of Elliott Fisher, who heads the Dartmouth Atlas Project. But as Uwe Reinhardt pointed out the other day, the idea is actually an old idea. It’s called Kaiser Permanente….
Lowering mortality by adding more diagnoses (a game)
…conditions. http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/11/1113.abstract This study from the Dartmouth Institute confirms the intuitive observation that the number of diagnoses of serious chronic conditions in Medicare beneficiaries has a positive correlation with case-fatality…
Students speak out for single payer at Vermont Statehouse
…salaries, wasteful marketing or departments with the sole purpose of issuing denials. Let’s take back control of our health care through single-payer reform! Stanton Shek Dartmouth Medical School Hello my…
Uwe Reinhardt on rationing in Canada and the U.S.
…(queues) and over-utilization (the excesses described by John Wennberg and the Dartmouth group). Admittedly, that is always a work in progress, but merely making the effort does result in improvements…
