Tag: cost-savings

We Want Our Healthcare Like We Want our Fast Food

February 24th, 2012
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With due respect to those patient souls among us, America is, in general, an impatient nation. That includes how we think about our healthcare. This is why I read with some interest, and some amusement, stories like “A real ‘doc fix,’” published this week in the New York Times. Basically it says we need to […]

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Posted in Quality Efficiency Utilization

Maryland’s Health Information Exchange Helps Take the Blinders off Emergency Care

February 21st, 2012
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The headline on a Washington Post story last week was enough to give almost any healthcare consumer a moment’s pause: “Maryland Hospitals to Share Patient Data.” To which a patient might respond, “Wait, You Mean Hospitals Don’t Share Data Now?” We see it in the Emergency Department all the time. Patients come in who have […]

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Posted in Future of Healthcare