“Health care was missed by the industrial revolution,” said Steve Swensen, MD, director of quality at Mayo Clinic.
But it is under way at Mayo Clinic. Mayo looks good in the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which ranks hospitals on quality, but its leaders do not seem too happy about that. A panel […]
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The WHCC conference sessions on transparency in healthcare are demonstrating that this movement is way more than a passing fad. As all stakeholders in the healthcare system — private institutions, government agencies, health plans, employers, group practices, research organizations, online service companies — are all getting in the mode of how to […]
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Let’s look at what Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson is saying in his soon-to-be-out new book, FREE! — as discussed in this issue of Wired – and reflect for a moment on the implications for healthcare. Anderson argues that there’s a number of models or trends as to why things on […]
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A short paper in the current issue of the Journal of Child Neurology (Hypokalemic Sensory Overstimulation) raises some tantalizing possibilities about ADHD:
In some patients, ADHD may be caused by an excess of sensory stimulation arriving at the brain, rather than being a disorder of the brain itself
For such patients, potassium supplements may be […]
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David Williams
I reported previously on a landmark case where a Washington D.C. federal judge ruled in favor of a consumer group that sued the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)to allow disclosure of specific data about doctors from the Medicare Claims database.The non-profit Consumers Checkbook filed the suit to allow access to […]
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