Are You an Information Blocker?

The Senate Appropriations Committee has defined a new transgression perpetrated in the committee’s expert opinion by vendors of certified E...

BREAKING: Patients Are Not Stupid

In a new Forbes article, David Shaywitz ponders whether patients are the best judges of physician quality. This is a very interesting ques...

The Fallacy of Value-Based Health Care

Value-based health care is antithetic to patient-centered care. Value-based health care is also diametrically opposed to excellence, transpa...

The Study You’ll Never Hear About

According to a new Commonwealth Fund sponsored study published in Health Affairs , “ Small Primary Care Physician Practices Have Low Rates O...

Introduction to Hypoliquidemia

The venerable University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston will accept patients with traditional Texas Medicaid health insurance...

Health Care for the Poor: The Sequel

In a previous post , I described how the American health care system is morphing into a system designed to service impoverished populations,...

The Ethics of Big Data Workers

A new study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The study is titl...