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Category Archives: Imaging
Are You Ready for Intense Price Competition?
Note from Brian: The article below describes my recent keynote address to a large meeting of imaging center administrators, and appears in the Sept 2012 Radiology Today. I’m reposting it because it accurately reflects, in depth, the message that I tried … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Klepper, Health Care Cost, Imaging, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Tools
Tagged Brian Klepper, Competition, Cost, Imaging, Market Forces, Pricing
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Affordability, Not Cost Growth, Is The Real Policy Challenge
Jeff Goldsmith Posted 5/7/12 on The Health Affairs Blog A recent spate of commentaries on the continuing health spending moderation raise an important policy question: If the cost curve is well and truly bent, why are we investing so much … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Benefits, Consumerism, Health Care Cost, Imaging, Innovation, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Supply Chain
Tagged Affordability, Cost Growth, Jeff Goldsmith, Medicare
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Misdiagnoses Common (Per WSJ)
Tom Emerick Posted 1/17/12 on Cracking Health Costs Good article in the WSJ by Laura Landro called “What if the Doctor Is Wrong”, corroborates what I’ve been saying all along. A large number of patients are seriously misdiagnosed. Click here to read … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Benefits, Consumerism, Imaging, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Laura Landro, Misdiagnosis, Tom Emerick
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6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine in 2012
Josh Constine Posted 1/1/12 on TechCrunch “In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time, we might prescribe apps.” Singularity University‘s executive director of FutureMed Daniel Kraft M.D. sat down with me to discuss the biggest emerging trends … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Health IT, Imaging, Innovation, Life Sciences, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality, Social Media
Tagged 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, Daniel Kraft, Genomics, Josh Constine, Quantified Self, Social Health Networks, TechCrunch, X Prize
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Digitizing Human Beings
Eric Topol First posted on The Health Care Blog on 12/26/2011 Our day-to-day lives were reformatted when the consumer mobile wireless device era, beyond cell phones, was ushered in by iPods in 2001 and followed in short order by Blackberries, smartphones, e-readers, … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Health IT, Imaging, Innovation, Life Sciences, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality
Tagged Digitization, Eric Topol, Genomics, Health IT
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Home HPV Testing – A New Tool for Cervical Cancer Screening
Patricia Salber Posted 11/2/11 on The Doctor Weighs In There are an increasing number of do-it-yourself (DIY) technologies that allow individuals to test for different diseases (e.g., HIV) or monitor chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes, hyperlipidemia). Now home testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Imaging, Innovation, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged HPV, Human Papillomavirus; Pat Salber
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Cleveland Clinic Announces Top Ten Health Care Innovations for 2012
Patricia Salber Posted 10/07/11 on The Doctor Weighs In Every year the Cleveland Clinic announces the top 10 innovations that their experts think will impact healthcare the most in the following year. Here are the winners for 2012: #1 Catheter-based renal denervation … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Health IT, Imaging, Innovation, Life Sciences, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Quality, Tools
Tagged Cleveland Clinic, Innovations, Pat Salber
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Reverse Innovation & The Cost Crisis of American Healthcare
Kent Bottles First posted 9/10/11 on Kent Bottles Private Views The realization that the American health care system must simultaneously decrease per-capita cost and increase quality has created the opportunity for the United States to learn from low and middle-income … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT, Imaging, Innovation, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Global Markets, Innovation, Kent Bottles
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So Cheap, I’ll Take Two!
Paul Levy WBUR/CommonHealth reporter Rachel Zimmerman went shopping recently for a pelvic ultrasound. She summarizes the results on a great new website called Healthcare Savvy. Here’s an excerpt: I called each facility, and here are the prices I was quoted for a pelvic … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Imaging, Market Dynamics, Quality, Supply Chain, Tools
Tagged Imaging, Paul Levy, Pricing
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You’d Better Shop Around: MRI Pricing Variances
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First published 6/30/11 on Health Populi My mama told me you’d better shop around, as Smokey Robinson also told us. We now know it pays to shop the prices for digital imaging. The price of an MRI of the brain ranges … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Imaging, Innovation, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
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Rads Are Good For You. Take Twice As Many
Paul Levy First published 6/19/11 on Not Running A Hospital Dear Mrs. Smith, I am writing to inform you that we exposed your body to an unnecessary level of radiation during your visit to our hospital. Oh, by the way, … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Imaging, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform, Supply Chain
Tagged Imaging, Paul Levy, Quality, Transparency
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Book Review: “Overdiagnosed” and the Paradox of Cancer Survivorship
Kenneth Lin First published 4/12/11 on Common Sense Family Doctor According to the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of cancer survivors in the U.S. has increased dramatically in my lifetime, from 3 million in … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Imaging, Innovation, Life Sciences, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Cancer, Clifton Meador, Gilbert Welch, Kenneth Lin, Overdiagnosed
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Primary Care’s “Top 5″ List
Kenneth Lin First published 5/30/11 on the AFP Community Blog Last week, the journal Archives of Internal Medicine published “The ‘Top 5′ Lists in Primary Care,” a physician-authored consensus statement that recommended five activities each for the specialties of family medicine, internal medicine, … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Imaging, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality, Tools
Tagged Antibiotics, Kenneth Lin, Low Back Pain, Primary, Top 5 List
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Dear CMS: Stop the Proton Beam Arms Race
Paul Levy First published 5/18/11 on Not Running A Hospital If Medicare payments for proton beam therapy are what is driving the construction of too many such machines, why doesn’t Medicare change the reimbursement? That’s my simple question for the day. What prompts … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT, Imaging, Innovation, Market Dynamics, Medical Management
Tagged CMS, Medicare, Paul Levy, Proton Beam Therapy
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Incidentalomas: Reasons to Think Twice about Getting a CT Scan
Kenneth Lin First published 4/24/11 on Common Sense MD Mrs. Smith (not her real name) fidgeted in her chair in my examination room as I scanned the radiology report she had given me. She had visited the emergency room the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Health IT, Imaging, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians
Tagged Advanced Imaging, CT Scan, Incidentalomas, Kenneth Lin
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