Making a Dent in the Trillion-Dollar Problem: Toward Zero Defects Source: NEJM Catalyst Innovations In Care Delivery Dec 9 2020 Most efforts to eliminate defects in health care value have been piecemeal rather than systematic. Here is a framework for savings that can be achieved by eliminating defects in value. ...
BrainQ is a world class brain technology company in Israel. The company has a very innovative technology to promote brain healing following stroke or other neurodegenerative diseases. The technology borders on being brilliant and takes on the challenge of healing strokes which have always felt to be untreatable. This will ...
Mark Toshner explains why you shouldn’t be alarmed that scientists have developed a coronavirus vaccine so quickly I’m a clinical trials geek. I keep hearing people talk about the seven to 10 years it takes to make a vaccine and how dangerous speeding this up might be. The word that keeps popping ...
Case One: BACKGROUNDA 66-year-old male presents with subacuteconfusion (encephalitis) and reports aweight loss of 40 pounds. His spinal fluid is abnormal and is sent to MayoClinic Laboratories for an AutoimmuneEncephalopathy evaluation. The evaluation detects an unclassified antibody, which isreported back to the treating physician. The patient is discovered to have ...
The importance of purpose Authors: Annie Lamont is a managing partner at Oak HC/FT and the first lady of the state of Connecticut. David Knott is a senior partner in McKinsey’s New York office. Twenty years ago, there was a big push toward physician-practice-management roll-ups. It was really a financial play. The doctors ...
The motivation for this piece came from thinking deeply for two years about pharmacare. The thinking proved to be circular and went nowhere. And from a piece in the New York times today on the role of government in solving massive social problems. The private sector can't do that without ...