from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/16aTEFC on January 31, 2015 at 03:00PM Shared by Regina Kenney, via Steven Strogatz: These stairs/ramp are in Brussels. Apart from the visual appeal, I like this because it allows people in wheelchairs to navigate the stairs without segregating them from those on foot. Brilliant and beautiful! @afrakt
from News at http://bit.ly/1DgU8UF on January 31, 2015 at 10:00AM Universal Health Coverage: The Holy Grail? 21st Annual Lecture Publication. Saturday, 31 January 2015 The 21st OHE Annual Lecture was given by Professor Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on the subject of Universal Health Coverage in low- and middle-income countries. Read […]
from News at http://bit.ly/1DgU8UF on January 31, 2015 at 10:00AM Universal Health Coverage: The Holy Grail? 21st Annual Lecture Publication. Saturday, 31 January 2015 The 21st OHE Annual Lecture was given by Professor Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on the subject of Universal Health Coverage in low- and middle-income countries. Read […]
from News at http://bit.ly/1DgU8UF on January 31, 2015 at 10:00AM Universal Health Coverage: The Holy Grail? 21st Annual Lecture Publication. Saturday, 31 January 2015 The 21st OHE Annual Lecture was given by Professor Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on the subject of Universal Health Coverage in low- and middle-income countries. Read […]
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from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/1yQ34wp on January 31, 2015 at 07:17AM I have spilled much ink on this blog discussing the pros and cons of pay-for-performance approaches to medicine. Incentivizing high quality care is good in theory, but in practice changes in quality have been modest and providers may be able to readily game the system. Despite […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1zowd5r on January 30, 2015 at 11:06PM There’s been a lot about vaccines in the news, recently, especially the flu vaccine. So we’re going to concentrate on that, in today’s Healthcare Triage News: This was adapted from two previous posts on the blog! @aaronecarroll
from ISPOR News & Press Releases at http://bit.ly/1BAQNhe on January 30, 2015 at 09:31PM Toronto, ON, Canada – Biologic therapies are an expensive group of drugs increasingly being used to treat inflammatory diseases in children and adults. Coverage in publicly-financed drug plans has been inconsistent and, at a cost of over $17,000 per year,… Read […]
from ScienceDirect Publication: Value in Health at http://bit.ly/1CU1Ma3 on January 30, 2015 at 05:43PM Publication date: Source:Value in Health Author(s): William H. Crown
from Business and policy through an Economist’s Lens at http://bit.ly/1wJ2KyD on January 30, 2015 at 05:31PM Screening for colon cancer creates some interesting challenges. I’ve never spoken with anyone who looks forward to a colonoscopy. But finding colon cancer early through appropriate screening makes it a very survivable cancer.A recent article focuses on other tests […]
from Brookings Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/1tFfDiq on January 30, 2015 at 04:02PM This week Brookings launches Health360: The Latest Views on Health Policy, a new blog about solutions to health policy challenges in the U.S. and around the world. As Ted Gayer, vice president and director of Economic Studies at Brookings, puts it in […]
from Brookings Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/1yeGoqq on January 30, 2015 at 05:00AM In an effort to reduce costs and increase quality of service, the government has provided over $26 billion in economic incentives to promote the adoption of health information exchange (HIE) platforms among medical providers. The full implementation of electronic health records is […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1yeRKed on January 30, 2015 at 04:50PM “Placebo effect of medication cost in Parkinson disease“: Objective: To examine the effect of cost, a traditionally “inactive” trait of intervention, as contributor to the response to therapeutic interventions. Methods: We conducted a prospective double-blind study in 12 patients with moderate to severe […]
from Brookings Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/1tFfDiq on January 30, 2015 at 04:02PM This week Brookings launches Health360: The Latest Views on Health Policy, a new blog about solutions to health policy challenges in the U.S. and around the world. As Ted Gayer, vice president and director of Economic Studies at Brookings, puts it in […]
from Brookings Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/1yeGoqq on January 30, 2015 at 05:00AM In an effort to reduce costs and increase quality of service, the government has provided over $26 billion in economic incentives to promote the adoption of health information exchange (HIE) platforms among medical providers. The full implementation of electronic health records is […]
from Centre for Health Economics – Latest news at http://bit.ly/1yKOdmV on January 30, 2015 at 11:02AM Job vacancy
from Centre for Health Economics – Latest news at http://bit.ly/1yKOdmV on January 30, 2015 at 11:02AM Job vacancy
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1JU3F8A on January 30, 2015 at 02:10PM I’ve read way too much reporting, and way too many tweets, parsing how the latest measles outbreaks happened. Some are missing the point. This is how outbreaks of a disease that isn’t endemic to the United States occur: Someone travelling/living abroad contracts the […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1Ke1HhE on January 30, 2015 at 01:44PM If the Supreme Court rules against the government in King v. Burwell, what would happen next? Many states without their own exchanges may not be able to move quickly enough to establish exchanges for 2016, as I explained at the New England Journal […]
from News at http://bit.ly/1tDTnWb on January 30, 2015 at 11:41AM In a Huffington Post interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that followed up his recent New York Times piece on the same subject, Ezekiel Emanuel exhorted healthy people to say "no" to annual physicals. Emanuel told the Post that overwhelming data from […]
from News at http://bit.ly/1tDTn8B on January 30, 2015 at 11:33AM Mary Naylor’s "Transitional Care Model" that pairs nurses with elderly patients from the time they enter the hospital to up to 90 days after they are discharged, Mary Naylor of Penn’s School of Nursing is the subject of a National Journal article. Fewer readmissionsNaylor, PhD, […]
from News at http://bit.ly/1BCZ72F on January 30, 2015 at 11:14AM Dan Polsky and Karin Rhodes’ study on the Medicaid "fee bump" has garnered widespread pickup by media sites across the country. The analysis looked at the two-years during which the Affordable Care Act raised doctors’ pay rates for Medicaid primary care services. It found that […]
from SFES – Société Française en Economie de la Santé at http://bit.ly/1BCZ6M9 on January 30, 2015 at 10:40AM 1- Caractériser le degré d’incertitude associé aux études coût résultat Carole SIANI, Christian de PERETTI 2- Modèle de Markov : Reflux gastro-oesophagien Soumaia BEN HARIZ, Anastasiia KABESHOVA, Rees-France 3- estimation des retombées à long terme des traitements […]
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1vdWVzg on January 30, 2015 at 11:00AM From Justin Dimick and Andrew Ryan: The association between policy changes and subsequent outcomes is often evaluated by pre-post assessments. Outcomes after implementation are compared with those before. This design is valid only if there are no underlying time-dependent trends in outcomes unrelated to the policy […]
from Health Economics, Policy and Law – FirstView Article(s) at http://bit.ly/1A5NNOw on January 30, 2015 at 10:25AM Research ArticlesAlex Voorhoeve, Trygve Ottersen, Ole Fritjof Norheim Health Economics, Policy and Law, FirstView Article(s), 9 pages Abstract
from Latest Results for International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics at http://bit.ly/15ZYowS on January 30, 2015 Abstract In countries with a public long-term care (LTC) insurance scheme administered by multiple non-competing insurers, these insurers typically lack incentives for purchasing cost-effective LTC because they are not at risk for LTC expenses. Plans to introduce […]
from Google Alert – “health economist” at http://bit.ly/1zaylPI on January 29, 2015 at 01:19PM
from Latest Results for The European Journal of Health Economics at http://bit.ly/1BvLxvl on January 30, 2015 Abstract Objectives This study investigates the possibility of multiple healthcare bubbles in the US healthcare market. Methods We first applied the newly developed Generalized Sup ADF test to locate multiple healthcare bubble episodes and then estimated the switching regression […]
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from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1yEz7iF on January 29, 2015 at 05:05PM As I posted previously, many studies have pointed to technology as a principal driver of health care spending growth. Those studies also credit third party payment (i.e., insurance) and income for some of the blame too. More interesting, coverage, income, and technology interact; […]
from Brookings Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/1ERDFaW on January 29, 2015 at 02:00PM It’s understandable that attention is heavily focused these days on imagining alternative futures for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after the US Supreme Court renders its decision in King v Burwell, expected this June. (This case challenges the legality of making tax […]
from Brookings Topics – Health at http://brook.gs/1ERDFaW on January 29, 2015 at 02:00PM It’s understandable that attention is heavily focused these days on imagining alternative futures for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after the US Supreme Court renders its decision in King v Burwell, expected this June. (This case challenges the legality of making tax […]
from Google Alert – “health economics” at http://bit.ly/18yweuJ on January 29, 2015 at 12:37PM
from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/1LkB65W on January 29, 2015 at 12:00PM Building on the ambitious Combatting Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB) process, the President’s budget request this week called for dramatically increased funding, $1.2 billion. This funding request is at the correct magnitude and demonstrates appropriate balance between various priorities. While Congress will surely have views […]
from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/1Djio91 on January 29, 2015 at 08:32AM You have been studying the the teams, getting the snacks, and reading up on “Deflate-gate.” You’re ready to grab a beverage and watch some commercials football. The Super Bowl is almost upon us. Before you turn on the TV for the game, however, an even more […]
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from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/15RhXYj on January 28, 2015 at 10:58PM As I’ve discussed before, insurance companies are very, very good at what they do. Even with guaranteed issue and community ratings, formularies can be used to deter sick patients and attract healthy ones. Go learn more about this in my latest piece over at the […]
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