April 19, 2013
New Study Finds Obese Employees More Costly To Companies Than Smokers
A recent Mayo Clinic study found obesity is outweighing smoking in employer health care costs. “I think this study is really going to surprise a lot of people that it really is truly obesity that’s raising the health care cost today,” says Mayo Clinic Health System registered dietitian Diane Dressel. A seven year study by […]
Tags: Dian Dressel, healthcare costs, Obesity, RedOrbit, WEAU-Eau Claire
June 18, 2012
US Healthcare Industry Confronts Unrestrained Waste to Cut Costs
There’s a stunning coloured glass Dale Chihuly chandelier worth an estimated $1.2m in one of the hallways. Outside, lush green lawns spread peacefully around elegant white and glass blocks. The state-of-the-art labs are in a hurricane-proof building with huge windows, on the second floor in case of flooding, not in the usual drab basement. The […]
Tags: Dale Chihuly, Dr. William Rupp, Guardian, healthcare costs, medical care
January 31, 2012
Back to school: Teaching the next generation of cost-conscious physicians
…But perhaps to truly control costs, healthcare needs to revisit where physicians’ careers begin: medical school. That’s the point made by three professors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in an article they wrote for Academic Medicine in response to that journal’s 2011 Question of the Year. The question asked what improvements in medical […]
Tags: 2011 Question of the Year, Academic Medicine, Frederic W. Hafferty, healthcare costs, medical school, Michael Brennan, Wojciech Pawlina