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US debt rises about 100% of GDP. Racism and sickle cell disease . Health insurance among the self-employed . The interaction of minimum...Read More
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Showing posts with label Healthcare Economist. Show all posts
New cancer drugs saved 1.3 million lives
That is the finding from a recent paper by myself and co-authors Joanna MacEwan, Syvart Dennen, Rebecca Kee, Farzad Ali, and Katharine Batt ...Read More
Will fighting COVID-19 disrupt progress against malaria?
That is the key question explored in a recent article from The Economist titled “ Masked up, ready to battle bugs “. As individuals in devel...Read More
Pandemic comparison: COVID-19 vs. London Plague
Dasgupta et al. (2020) compares individual behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic with the 1665 London plague outbreak based on the descriptions...Read More
Quotation of the Day
“The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” – The Talmud, Brachot 17a from Healthcare Economist https://ift.tt/34L6cEO Read More
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Clinical trials going digital . JAMA return-to-play guidance . Would a COVID-19 vaccine produce larger health or economic benefits ? ...Read More
The Oncology Care Model is dead. Long Live the Oncology Care First Model.
The Oncology Care Model is slated to end soon. Specifically, the last set of six-month episodes would initiate no later than December 31, 20...Read More
Will California Produce and Distribute Biosimilars and Generics Drugs?
As AJMC reports , Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law legislation that will allow California to produce and distribute its own line of bio...Read More
HTA are ignoring the value of reduced caregiver burden
While many health technology assessment (HTA) organizations acknowledge that many new treatments reduce the burden placed on caregivers, the...Read More
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AZ/J&J resume COVID-19 trials . Nature and Predictors of Response Changes in Modified-Delphi Panels . Thanksgiving and COVID-19 risks...Read More
Why doesn’t the US have nationalized health care?
This is one of the main topics explored by the interesting book Remedy and Reaction by Paul Starr. The U.S. has gotten close to national he...Read More
FDA’s use of real-world data
The 21st Century Cures Act required the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) establish a program for evaluating the use of real-world data (RW...Read More
Health systems seize patients home equity to pay medical bills
University of Virginia Health System (UVA Health) has gone after patients’ homes to pay for medical bills . Kaiser Health News reports: UV...Read More
What makes a great economist?
From John Maynard Keynes’ Essays in Biography : The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high...Read More
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ADHD, financial distress and suicide . Will approval of ‘so-so’ COVID-19 vaccine preclude development of a better one ? International pri...Read More
How the value of innovation will be redefined in 2021
That is the title of my article in MedCityNews . I discuss the evolution of value measurement, digital medicine, and the importance of reduc...Read More
CRISPR inventors win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
From the Nobel Prize website : Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the ...Read More
The problem with prior authorization
Prior authorization is a requirement that health plans require physicians to obtain plan approval in order to prescribe a patient a given me...Read More
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