Patient Safety and the Purse Strings

Will medical errors stop because hospitals (and doctors) don’t get paid? The State of Pennsylvania just announced that it would no longer make Medicaid payments to hospitals for serious, preventable medical errors, following the path laid out by the Federal government’s Medicare no-pay policy announced last August. Of course, both programs mean they will no […]

Anthony Fauci MD on Global Health

We should understand Global Health not only in terms of its value in promoting individual well-being, but also as a stabilizing influenceI first met, heard and came to admire Tony Fauci several months ago at the Aspen Health Forum. Dr. Fauci heads the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In […]

The New World of Science Blogs

Impact of science blogging on journalism and academia is growing Last weekend marked the second annual North Carolina Science Blogging Conference in Research Triangle Park, N.C. More than 200 scientists, journalists, educators and students from around the U.S., Canada, Serbia, Sweden and England registered for the event held this year at Sigma Xi, the scientific […]

Davos Discovers Water

Global Warming, Energy and Water on a Collision Course If you’re looking for a multi-national CEO this week, they’re hard to find. That is unless you’re in Davos, Switzerland. At the World Economic Forum, which meets in the village each year, there’s lots of heat — about the world economy, the collapsing U.S. market, global […]

Four Big Trends

Far-reaching changes are coming, in both policy and the marketplace Several events and trends emerged over the last year that will reverberate throughout the health care marketplace in 2008 and going forward. While none of these dominated the trade press like some other issues – electronic and personal health records, RHIOs, the evolving labor shortage, […]

Prejudice

Does a diagnosis of mental illness lead to unfair targeting? Health Commentary viewer Mary Donohue wrote to us on Jan. 24 with this thought: "The words and behaviors of any person today with a diagnosis of ‘mental illness’ become the target of scrutiny not required of those who have not been labeled. "They’re not taking their medication" becomes […]

Health Commentary Covers Health Action

Guest blogger to send posts from Families USA conference Watch this page for the next several days (Jan. 24-26) as we feature coverage of “Health Action 2008” — the annual grassroots meeting of Families USA. Health Commentary guest blogger Brian Klepper is on site in Washington D.C. and will be sending his take on the various health care […]

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