U.S. medical groups are lining up this week against a biotech company in a rare federal court battle over whether a specific drug test can ...
Transcript of President Obama’s Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Now what’s been done here in Grand Junction, in other outstanding health programs like Mayo, is they started to change the delivery system so that you’re actually getting more bang for your health care dollar…Now, it’s not going to happen overnight, because a lot of these systems have been put in place for a long time. And if you’re in Grand Junction or Mayo Clinic or Geisinger or other of these really good health care systems, what they’ve done is each year they are continually comparing notes, they’ve got a peer review process where doctors are exchanging ideas, and they’re continually making the system better and better, smarter and smarter, and over time what we can do is bend the cost curve so that instead of having inflation go up a lot faster on health care than everything else, it matches everything else. Wall Street Journal, 8/15/09 No Death Panels at Cleveland Clinic You don't need to kill old people to hold down health care costs. Reform the health delivery system and reduce the burden of disease…Ignore the town hall clamor. Don't rush out to buy health care shares like United HealthGroup or Aetna. Instead, listen to Delos M. Cosgrove, the CEO and president of Cleveland Clinic, a nonprofit health center that should become the model for the change our health care system requires…Clearly, the nation needs to learn more about how medical care is provided at blue ribbon institutions like Cleveland and Mayo as models for keeping control of health care costs in delivering services to an aging population. Note well that Cleveland and Mayo are nonprofit health centers used by enlightened patients requiring the highest quality of care. Forbes by Robert Lenzner 8/14/09 ABMS and NQF Convene Summit on Enhancing Physician Performance: Stakeholders Agree Board Certification Should Play Bigger Role in Healthcare Quality Improvement While the healthcare reform debate heated up on Capitol Hill, key stakeholders meeting across town agreed that efforts to improve healthcare quality must be stepped up significantly, and that board certification must play an enhanced role in leading the way. "Enhancing Physician Performance: Board Certification in a Quality-Driven World," a two-day summit and call to action convened by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the National Quality Forum (NQF), featured a variety of participants, from physician leaders and consumer advocates to insurance executives and government representatives. "At Mayo, all physicians must be board certified and maintain that certification," said speaker Richard Berger, MD, PhD, dean, Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development, professor of orthopedics at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Mayo physicians "are incorporating MOC into their daily activities so it's literally part of the culture. Physicians then make meaningful improvements and everyone wins - boards, physicians, systems and, most of all, patients." Houston Chronicle, 8/17/2009
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Mayo official tries to clear up concerns about health care reform Is the House bill some call Obama's plan, advocating a single payer government run health care system? "Most of the bills focus on getting more people in the system, how they should be covered by a government plan or something else, but nothing out there suggests that anyone is overtly advocating a single payer system," Jeff Korsmo, Executive Director of the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center, said Thursday. KARE 11 Jana Shortal, 8/14/09 Additional Mayo Clinic health care reform coverage: Huffington Post WNED Kaiser Health News Standard Net, TOP STORIES Deficit Plays Into Health Reform The Washington Post August 14, 2009 Key Republicans and a growing number of Democrats say it will be hard to push an ambitious health reform bill through Congress unless it reduces projected federal spending on medical care and begins to bring the national debt under control. Ask the Expert: Health Reform is Good for Doctors and Patients American Progress August 14, 2009 A series of interviews with Senator Tom Daschle. Six Lobbyists Per Lawmaker Work to Shape Health Care Overhaul The Bloomberg Report August 14, 2009 If there is any doubt that President Obama’s plan to overhaul U.S. health care is the hottest topic in Congress, just ask the 3,300 lobbyists who have lined up to work on the issue. Are Democrats Losing August? Politico August 14, 2009 Grassley's Iowa road show shows just why Democrats feared this August recess.
Time for a little fun. These stats were gathered on August 12, 2009. Full data on all hospitals can be found on this Excel spreadsheet Ranking ...
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10 Steps to Better Health Care WE have reached a sobering point in our national health-reform debate. Americans have recognized that our health system is bankrupting us and that we have dealt with this by letting the system price more and more people out of health care…Yes, many European health systems have done it, but we are not Europe. And evidence that places like the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota or the Cleveland Clinic are doing it is likewise dismissed because their unique structures (for example, their physicians work on salary rather than being paid for each service) make them seem as far from Middle America as Sweden is. NY Times by Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher and Mark McClellan Additional Mayo Clinic health care reform coverage: Washington Post MinnPost Buffalo News Star Tribune (blog) Kaiser Health News Daily Inter Lake East Texas Review South Dakota Politics Great Falls Tribune TOP STORIES Alan Frumin May Rise from Obscurity to Craft Senate Health Bill The Bloomberg Report August 13, 2009 The central figure in Congress’s struggle to craft health care legislation may be someone who’s neither a Democratic nor Republican lawmaker or an elected official of any kind; he’s Alan Frumin, Senate parliamentarian. Understanding How Americans View Health Reform The New England Journal of Medicine August 13, 2009 On health care issues, public support for change is shaped by the interaction of three factors: people’s perception of problems that affect the country, their assessment of their own current life situation, and their worries about their own future. Is This 1994 All Over Again? The Washington Post August 13, 2009 An interview with Nancy-Ann DeParle'.