from Market Design at http://bit.ly/34vWKT7 on November 30, 2019 at 01:50PM Here’s a talk, just recently posted on the web, that I gave in China at the Luohan Academy in Hangzhou, in June 2019.

from Econsalut at http://bit.ly/2OvdGng on November 29, 2019 at 02:09PM Remaking the American Patient How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers I’ve found this book of interest specially for europeans. Our health systems are currently under… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and […]

from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2DvpoI0 on November 29, 2019 at 01:41PM On Wednesday I received some email correspondence about a difficulty being faced by experimental economists in Ireland, who may be forbidden from paying participants in experiments, at least if the money comes from research grants The issue has to do with this sentence on […]

from The Health Care Blog at http://bit.ly/2P8zDaX on November 29, 2019 at 01:03PM Today on THCB Spotlights, Matthew interviews Todd Clardy who is the EVP of Marketing at Accolade. Accolade is a company well-known for being in employee/patient advocacy. They’ve created an advocacy model that focuses on creating an outstanding member experience and supporting patients […]

from AcademyHealth Blog at http://bit.ly/34yMaKW on November 29, 2019 at 12:36PM New Checklist Aims to Improve Quality and Consistency in Dissemination Cochrane Groups around the world spend a lot of time and effort trying to disseminate review results in many of different ways. Indeed, for 20 years now Cochrane researchers in Norway and in many […]

from Econsalut at http://bit.ly/37NSn84 on November 28, 2019 at 06:57PM Health in the 21st Century Putting Data to Work for Stronger Health Systems A new report by OECD highlights the potential digital health environment. We are still far from what they say. However,… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full […]

from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/2OuBlnV on November 28, 2019 at 04:50PM The second half of our two part series on food insecurity focuses on how food assistance programs like SNAP work, and how they affect health and well-being.   @DrTiff_

from Market Design at http://bit.ly/33tlJoX on November 28, 2019 at 01:33PM A general lesson of market design is that participants have big strategy sets, so any given set of rules can have unanticipated undesirable consequences.  Here’s an example from transplantation. Transplant centers are regulated in part based on their one-year survival rate. Here’s a story […]

from The Health Care Blog at http://bit.ly/2ORHl95 on November 28, 2019 at 01:06PM By HANS DUVEFELT, MD At the end of the year my patients and I will start over. That is what changing EMRs does to us. I have mixed feelings about data migration, if it even happens. I will move into a new […]

from Health Economics and Decision Science Blog @ ScHARR at http://bit.ly/34qG4MI on November 28, 2019 at 07:00AM This month’s website of choice is Our World in Data which provides access to over 3000 charts across almost 300 topics. All of the charts are Open Access and Open Source, so plenty for you to explore and […]

from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/34sS8gr on November 28, 2019 at 06:37AM In anticipation of the Thanksgiving Holiday… We can complain that rose bushes have thorns or we can rejoice that thorn bushes have roses.” Abraham Lincoln For me every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart every time I can meet someone […]

from ASHEcon at http://bit.ly/35E737O on November 27, 2019 at 06:38PM Description The Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago invites applications for tenured faculty positions in Health Policy, including the economics, politics and sociology of health, the industrial organization of the health sector, the organization and finance of health care, and health […]

from ASHEcon at http://bit.ly/37FzuUG on November 27, 2019 at 06:38PM Mayo Clinic seeks a Health Services Researcher or Health Economist with a PhD in a field relevant to health services research (i.e. public health, social science, health research methodology, health services research, health economics), or an M.D. with additional training or experience in one or […]

from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2Dj3dVA on November 27, 2019 at 04:54PM Syneos Health in a new report suggests payers are more reluctant to use real-world evidence (RWE) in reimbursement and formulary decisions despite rising interest among other organizations. “Our research reveals that payers are positively disposed to use RWE, but knowledge gaps […]

from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2qRNhXx on November 27, 2019 at 04:24PM Reps. Diana DeGette, a Democrat, and Fred Upton, a Republican, are working together to create new legislation that would expand on the 21st Century Cures Act, according to a Regulatory Focus report. The legislators put out a call for input on […]

from tHEORetically Speaking: The HealthEconomics.Com Blog at http://bit.ly/2R6ZEtR on November 27, 2019 at 04:24PM The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review’s (ICER) latest report on JAK inhibitors for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis gave a leg up to AbbVie and Pfizer, but they and other drugmakers remain critical of ICER’s methodology, FiercePharma reports. ICER released […]

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at http://bit.ly/2XRFl4I on November 27, 2019 at 03:16PM Background Federally qualified health centers have aligned clinical services and systems with local hospitals, but little is known about the specific care integration strategies health centers use or their impact on care. A research team examined the use of […]

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at http://bit.ly/2rxBgXe on November 27, 2019 at 02:15PM Objectives Community health centers (CHCs) historically have reported challenges obtaining specialty care for their patients, but recent policy changes, including Medicaid eligibility expansions under the Affordable Care Act, may have improved access to specialty care. The objective of this […]

from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2XR3nNj on November 27, 2019 at 01:17PM Eppstein and Vazirani propose a centralized marketplace for computer science conferences: A Market for TCS Papers??November 19, 2019 by Kevin Leyton-BrownBy David Eppstein & Vijay Vazirani "No, not to make theoreticians rich! Besides, who will buy your papers anyway? (Quite the opposite, you will […]

from The Health Care Blog at http://bit.ly/35AXoPp on November 27, 2019 at 01:07PM By MICHAEL MILLENSON If you’re used to health tech meetings filled with go-go entrepreneurs and the investors who love them, a conference of academic technology experts can be jarring. Speakers repeatedly pointed to portions of the digital health superhighway that sorely need […]

from The Health Care Blog at http://bit.ly/34qjQKL on November 27, 2019 at 12:03PM By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Quil Health CEO, Carina Edwards, tells us what’s happening at the digital health startup born from the partnership between Comcast NBCUniversal and Independence Blue Cross. The new “baby” is just about a year old. How’s it fairing? […]

from The Incidental Economist at http://bit.ly/2DodijS on November 27, 2019 at 12:00PM The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2019, The New York Times Company). It is jointly authored by Austin Frakt and Toni Monkovic. When the opioid crisis began to escalate some 20 years ago, many African-Americans had a layer of protection against […]

from Healthcare Economist at http://bit.ly/2OmT28E on November 27, 2019 at 06:33AM You may know that pollution is bad for your health, but how bad is it? Patrick Collison has a nice blog post summarizing the evidence. Chess players make more mistakes on polluted days.  – Künn et al 2019. An increase in pollution is associated […]