…is attractive, much of the subtlety of the Dartmouth work has been lost in translation. What Dartmouth investigators have documented through careful work is that dysfunctional systems produce expensive, poor-quality…
Differences in prices and spending under Medicare and private insurance
…about $55,800. In Medicare, regional differences in spending are driven mostly by the amount of health care patients receive, not price per service. Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School have studied…
2008 Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness
…care hospitals. http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/ The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 2008: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/atlases/2008_Chronic_Care_Atlas.pdf Comment: Don McCanne, MD Uwe Reinhardt has said that for the past few decades John Wennberg has been howling…
Dartmouth variations – looking back and looking forward
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Assessing Variations in Hospital Resource Use and Outcomes for Elderly Patients With Heart Failure
…not seem to correlate with health care outcomes. John Wennberg and his colleagues, in producing the Dartmouth Atlas, have confirmed that these variations are very real, though more recent refinements…
Getting less care for more money
The price problem that health-care reform failed to cure
…came primarily from Dartmouth College researchers who had amassed data showing wide disparities in Medicare spending among different regions. Hospitals in the lower-spending areas, mostly in the Upper Midwest and…
N.H. hospital watches Vt. single-payer debate
Adam Sullivan WCAX News, Lebanon, New Hampshire – March 2, 2011 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s Frank McDougall knows a lot of people who impact the health care industry in New Hampshire…
Dartmouth variations – looking back and looking forward
…we would look at the great variability in health care spending that does not seem to correlate with health care outcomes. John Wennberg and his colleagues, in producing the Dartmouth…
Dartmouth Atlas – Major overhaul of health care required
…States; perhaps acute care hospitals could take on the mission of integrating providers into community-based systems for managing chronic illness. Executive Summary: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/atlases/2006_Atlas_Exec_Summary.pdf The full report (121 pages); http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/atlases/2006_Chronic_Care_Atlas.pdf Comment:…
What the Health Care Debate Still Gets Wrong
A decade ago, Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that U.S. health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.
…of scholars at Dartmouth. In a slew of influential studies, these investigators demonstrated that health care use (and spending) varies greatly from region to region, and that the people in…
WARNING: Elliott Fisher wants to switch from ACOs to PHOs
Team proposes "single system solution" for US healthcare system
By The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical Xpress, August 5, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the numerous weaknesses in the U.S. healthcare system. Millions have lost their…
PNHP Newsletter: Fall 2022
…SNaHP chapter at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. To get involved in New Hampshire, contact Dr. Donald Kollisch at donald.o.kollisch@dartmouth.edu. New Jersey The New Jersey Universal Healthcare Coalition…
Getting less care for more money
…care, not the actual prices of treatment. This argument came primarily from Dartmouth College researchers who had amassed data showing wide disparities in Medicare spending among different regions. Hospitals in…
