Alliance Between the Generations for Responsible Medicare Savings
The following post is by Jim Sabin, a Clinical Professor in the Departments of Population Medicine and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Ethics Program at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and a blogger at the website “Over 65.” Jim has been in healthcare for almost 50 years — as psychiatrist, medical director, teacher/researcher, consultant, leader of the ethics program at a not-for-profit health plan, and patient. There’s no way to address long term financial health in the U.S. without including Medicare savings in the mix. But political...
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The following post is by Brian Powers, an M.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School. Previously, he worked at the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care. After graduating from college I had the opportunity to spend two years working at the Institute of Medicine on a variety of health care improvement topics. When it came time to apply to medical school I noticed an odd dissonance—the challenges I had been grappling with at the IOM were not manifest in most medical school curricula. I knew that multidisciplinary teams deliver the best care, but I was...
Read MoreScript Writer Shares Story of Viral Hospital/Hotel Bill Video
By Dr. Vineet Arora (Twitter: @FutureDocs) What Happens in Vegas Can Be Used to Teach Costs of Care Funded with a grant from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, Costs of Care has partnered with medical educators at Harvard Medical School and the University of Chicago (that would be us!) to start addressing this problem. We are developing a series of web-based medical education videos that use clinical vignettes to illustrate core principles of cost-consideration, including how to communicate with patients about avoiding unnecessary care and reducing overused or misused tests...
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