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Blog: The Health Care Blog
BY KIM BELLARD Two new books have me thinking about healthcare, although neither is about healthcare and, I must admit, neither of which I've yet read. But both appear to be fullContinue reading...
Blog: Capitalisn't
You don't need us to tell you there's something very wrong with the American healthcare system. The real question is: what can we actually do to fix it? Could Democratic candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders be right that Medicare for all would be better? Would a single-payer system fix all the frictions in the industry? On this episode, Kate and Luigi delve into the economics and capitalism of the healthcare debate.
Blog: The Health Care Blog
BY VINCE KURATIS, BRENDAN KEELER, and JODY RANCK Recent regulations have mandated the use of HL7 FHIR APIs (application programming interfaces) to share health data. The regs apply to healthcare providers, payers, and technology developersContinue reading...
Blog: UCL Uncovering Politics
This week we're looking at the current health crisis in the UK. What is going wrong with the NHS? Should the state intervene more or less in public health?
Blog: The Health Care Blog
BY KIM BELLARD Here's a question: what medical schools are incorporating Roblox into their curriculum? Interested readers can get back to me, but in the meantime I'm guessing none. At best,Continue reading...
Blog: Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog
This morning, Chris Sabatini at Chatham House moderated a Zoom panel entitled, "How Prepared is Venezuela's Healthcare System for Covid-19." The participants were:José Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director, Americas Division, Human Rights WatchTamara Taraciuk Broner, Acting Deputy Director, Americas Division, Human Rights WatchDr Kathleen Page, Associate Professor of Medicine, John Hopkins UniversityThe answer to the panel's title question is, as anyone paying even passing attention would accurately guess, emphatically no. There is no good news. There is no silver lining. A massively corrupt and uncaring dictatorship is letting people die and lying about everything. Doctors are washing their hands from the drips of air-conditioning units before doing surgery. Many hospitals don't have potable water. Aid is tricky and the gasoline shortage makes it hard to reach the interior of the country. We have no idea how many people have the virus and how many people have died from it. Repression makes it hard to find out anything. BTW, I had never heard the phrase "verbal autopsy" before. That's where we are in terms of data collection, down to trying to get information on demand for funeral homes, but even then people are afraid to talk openly. It's an onslaught of bad, but Covid-19 has distracted the world from the disaster.What can the international community do? We need a truly multilateral effort with a common position. José Miguel Vivanco lamented the Trump's administration embrace of militaristic rhetoric, which makes things worse. The UN is barely paying attention.John Hopkins worked with Human Rights Watch before Covid-19, and already last year warned that Venezuela was in a dire healthcare crisis.Anyway, it was a really interesting discussion, but one that left me sad and frustrated. Subscribe in a reader
Blog: The Health Care Blog
BY KIM BELLARD You may have seen that last week the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) gave approval for two companies to operate self-driving taxicabs ("robotaxis") in San Francisco, available 24/7 andContinue reading...
Blog: The Health Care Blog
BY KIM BELLARD I was at the barbershop the other day and overheard one barber talking with his senior citizen customer about when – not if – robot AIs would become barbers.Continue reading...
Blog: Conversable Economist
. Is the rise in US health care spending slowing down? For perspective, health care spending as a share of GDP had been rising steadily over the half-century prior to 2010: 5% of GDP in 1960, 6.9% of GDP in 1970, 8.9% of GDP in 1980, 12.1% of GDP in 1990, 13.3% of GDP in … Continue reading Is Healthcare Spending Leveling Out at Last?
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Blog: The Health Care Blog
By KMI BELLARD I'm thinking about electric vehicles (EVs)…and healthcare. Now, mind you, I don't own an EV. I'm not seriously thinking about getting one (although if I'm still driving in theContinue reading...
Blog: RSS-Feed soziopolis.de
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine. Deadline: September 1, 2023
Blog: Cato at Liberty
Healthcare costs are undoubtedly out of control. Yet the percentage of healthcare costs due to malpractice suits is modest and has been relatively stable over time.
Blog: Social Europe
As pressures grow on Europe's hospitals, lessons must be learned from social dialogue during the pandemic.
Blog: The Health Care Blog
By MIKE MAGEE This past week my wife and I were at a family event to celebrate my brother-in-law's 70th birthday. Our extended family has more than a few doctors. A physicianContinue reading...
Blog: The Health Care Blog
So in this week of THCB’s 20th birthday it’s a little ironic that we are running what is almost a mea culpa article from Jeff Goldsmith. I first heard Jeff speak inContinue reading...