2015

The Crisis Masters of Health and Death

There are three visions of peace in the seemingly never ending, but really rather brief, Israeli-Palestinian perpetual crisis. One peace f...

The Medscape Physician Compensation Report puts primary care physicians at the bottom of the heap, with a median earning of less than $200,...

Did you know that you are a “telemedicine provider”? No? I can’t blame you for not knowing, but you are, and always have been. Well, maybe n...

On April 16, 2015, President Obama signed into law H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), effectively se...

Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan , which according to the Federal Trad...

According to OECD data , Americans see doctors less frequently than people in any developed nation. We are hospitalized less frequently and ...

Health care in America is a perfect example of the Pareto principle, because 80% of our gargantuan expenditures on health care are due to on...

On March 20, 2015 the stars aligned to produce four simultaneous events that will never again coincide during the life of human civilization...

One of the most revolting pleasures in life is to read learned opinions and in-depth analyses of consumers’ behavior written by beautiful pe...

Whether you like it or not health care financing is transitioning from payment for discrete services to global payment for value. Whether yo...