Physicians News Digest. Medscape Access. Who Really Pays For Health Care Might Surprise You : Shots - Health News. President Obama said eight million people signed up for health coverage through new insurance exchanges.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption itoggle captionJ. Scott Applewhite/AP President Obama said eight million people signed up for health coverage through new insurance exchanges. J. Eight million people have signed up for subsidized private health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, President Obama said this month. MMS: Error. CBO: Healthcare reform will cost $100B less than expected. Health insurance premiums will be lower than expected for the next few years.
Therefore, the Congressional Budget Office revised its estimated cost of the Affordable Care Act to $1.4 trillion over the next 10 years--a decrease of about $100 billion. In its report published Monday, the CBO said premiums will fall because so many insurers are using narrow networks and lower reimbursement rates for plans sold on health insurance exchanges. "A crucial factor in the current revision was an analysis of the characteristics of plans offered through the exchanges in 2014," the report states. President Obama nominates Sylvia Mathews Burwell as new HHS secretary. President Barack Obama this morning nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to replace Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of the U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services. Sebelius--the public face of the botched HealthCare.gov rollout--stepped down from her post today after five years of service, as FierceHealthcare reported last night. RELATED: Katheen Sebelius to resign as HHS Secretary Sign up for our FREE newsletter for more news like this sent to your inbox! Burwell currently serves as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Is healthcare reform bringing an end to small practices? Your Brain on Booze. Alcohol is a drug with two stories.
Malcolm Gladwell: Tell People What It's Really Like To Be A Doctor. Top 3 skills healthcare leaders need now. One thing became clear in 2013, all leaders across the health system have been challenged to keep pace with change, and the best of them have been driving change.
In a year of active mergers and acquisitions, most of our clients voiced a need for leadership that can facilitate change across complex organizations. At the same time, we noted that all organizations are keenly aware of the M&A climate and that awareness is part of what is fueling a demand for a new type of leadership.
We were struck by how key healthcare leadership roles have changed, from the chief information officer to the chief medical officer. We have seen new leadership dyads emerge, such as the chief information officer and the chief medical information officer, and we have seen new roles emerge, such as chief accountable care officer and chief data officer. 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki envisions the future of preventative medicine. Anne Wojcicki and her genetic sequencing company 23andMe are locked in a battle with the FDA.
Even though it can't report results to customers right now, Wojcicki isn't letting herself get bogged down in the present. At SXSW 2014 she laid out her vision of the future of preventative medicine -- one where affordable genome sequencing comes together with "big data. " In addition to simply harvesting your genetic code, the company is doing research into how particular genes effect your susceptibility to disease or your reaction to treatments. And 23andMe isn't keeping this information locked down.
Obamacare Just Made Americans Richer Without Anyone Noticing. Glenn Beck once said Obamacare would mean "the end of prosperity in America forever.
" But so far, it turns out President Obama's 2010 health law is actually putting money in Americans' wallets. To be exact, President Obama's 2010 health law was responsible for about three-quarters of a surprising January rise in U.S. consumer spending and American income growth, according to calculations by the Wall Street Journal. While not exceptional, the gains were significant: a 0.4 percent rise in consumer spending ($45.2 billion) and a 0.3 percent rise in personal incomes (up $43.9 billion), according to new figures released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Vulnerable Dems huddle over health fixes. The White House took the rare step of naming more than a dozen Democrats it worked “in close consultation” with ahead of a Wednesday announcement about changes to the Affordable Care Act.
All of the Democrats the administration cited are up for reelection in 2014, and most are either vulnerable, or find themselves early targets by the GOP for their past support of ObamaCare. The administration announced Wednesday it would allow insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements. Prolonging the “keep your plan” fix to accommodate for President Obama’s broken promise about the law will avoid another wave of health policy cancellations otherwise expected in critical weeks before Election Day in 2014.
The administration’s announcement of the delay singled out 13 Democrats that helped craft that change. The officials said Sens. Oscars: 19 Million Tweets in 12 Hours. If Patients Are Flipped Out by Today's Physician Encounters, Why Not "Flip" The Clinic? What’s to be done?
Some possibilities: Change the conventional encounters and prevailing dynamics between clinicians and patients. Embolden and empower patients with skills and knowledge to be actively engaged in their health and health care—not just when they’re in the doctor’s office, but during the rest of their busy lives. Obama Urges Focus on Health Care Law’s Benefits. In brief remarks at the White House, the president began what aides described as a weekslong effort to move on from the negative stories of the botched HealthCare.gov rollout.
Mr. Obama again conceded the problems but said critics who contended that the law had failed were wrong. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. U.S.’s Report Card on Premature Births: An “A” for Effort, but “C” Overall. For six consecutive years, the U.S. has successfully lowered the rate of preterm births, to 11.5%. But that still falls short of the March of Dimes goal. The nonprofit organization, which leads the Prematurity Campaign to improve the health of mothers and babies by educating women about the risk factors for preterm birth, hopes to lower the premature birth rate in the U.S. to at least 9.6% by 2020. Each year, the March of Dimes issues a Premature Birth Report Card that grades each state on its efforts to lower premature births. The U.S. earned a “C,” but six states made significant enough improvements to earn an A — Alaska, California, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and Vermont.
Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com. The one little question that could save your life. Val Jones, MD | Physician | October 31, 2013 I realize that my blog has been littered with depressing musings on healthcare lately, and so I thought I’d offer up one very positive and “actionable” suggestion for all you patients out there. In the midst of a broken system where your doctor is being pressured to spend more time with a computer than listening and examining you, where health insurance rates and co-pays are sky-rocketing, and where 1 in 5 patients have the wrong diagnosis… There is one “magic” question that you should be asking your physician(s): “What else could this be?”
This very simple question about your condition/complaint can be extremely enlightening. How-healthtap-disrupted-the-health-care-industry. Follow the Transform #TXFM Sessions LIVE. Dana Sparks (@danasparks) published a blog post · September 8th, 2013 Follow the Transform #TXFM Sessions LIVE Transform 2013 is officially underway. It's the sixth multidisciplinary symposium held by the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation focusing on transforming the way health care is experienced and delivered, with a dynamic audience of innovators, leaders, designers, entrepreneurs, policymakers and business thinkers. Topics include new models of care delivery, the uncertainty of change in the health care landscape, the intersection of business and health care innovation, and how to scale programs to large populations.
North Carolina Hospital Closes, Citing No Medicaid Expansion. A small hospital in a coastal North Carolina community will close its doors within months and its parent company says Gov. Antibiotic Use On The Farm: Are We Flying Blind? : The Salt. Primary care physician salaries are rising, but how long will it last? Nonprofit hospital tax breaks questioned. CSHS-Spending-Brief_March%202013. Doctors worried about loss of clinical autonomy, compensation. Docs Must Lead the Charge for Real Reform. Health Reform in 2013: What's Happened, What's Left & What it Means for Providers. Written by Jim McLaughlin | January 30, 2013. Medical students need to learn to be patients. Growing up, I rarely had a steady primary care physician. Every school-physical, immunization, sports injury, and sore throat was addressed with care and diligence at a family clinic affiliated with a major suburban hospital.
Patients need pay for performance too. X. Overcoming Obstacles to Better Health Care. Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. Health Care Spending In America, In Two Graphs : Planet Money. Who influences HIT policy? The successful physician of 2015: 5 essential traits. Obama administration takes steps to implement individual mandate. The Nitro Primary Care Chronicle. MDAndersonNews : Maintaining a #healthy diet... Q&A: How to improve your diet and take Healthy Bites in 2013. Obama: ‘Our Commitment To Medicare … Is Really Important’ Link between health care spending, quality unclear. Commonwealth Fund Panel Proposes Options To Slow Health Care Spending. Should We Tax People for Being Annoying? The Role of CDIS' in Denials Avoidance on ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals. Infographic: A picture of health. McConnell, Others Demanding Spending Cuts - Including Medicare. High-Cost Care Not Necessarily Quality Care. Medical schools don't care about the primary care shortage.
5 Foods That Help You Sleep. House OKs bill to avert fiscal cliff, doc pay cut. 2012 - The Year In Healthcare Charts. Encryption Shortfalls Plague Healthcare Industry - Healthcare - Walmart Bails On Obamacare-Sticks Taxpayers With Employee Healthcare Costs. UPMC tax status contested. The Patients of Saints: Exploring the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Page 8 - Windows 8 in Health Care: 10 Apps for Doctors, Patients and Researchers.
The coming massive doctor shortage and the future of primary care. ACOs deliver care to 31 million Americans, report finds. Hospitals Get New Grades On Safety. Geisinger Genomics Institute. U.K. NHS mandate includes expansion of health IT, PHRs and mobile health. International Profiles of Health Care Systems: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. HealthcareInformation_TrendsAndTransformations_2012. Former President Clinton Launches Healthcare Initiative. Health Costs: How the U.S. Compares With Other Countries. A quick primer on health insurance exchanges. A Brief History of Inventing Innovation - Rita McGrath.
House Budget Medicaid Plan Chops. Quality. Kaiser Health Reform Gateway: Health Care Reform and Health Insurance Reform Analysis, Data and Information. Political Cartoon: "Between A Rock And A Hard Place?" By Jimmy Margulies, The Record. Home - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Commonwealth Fund - Health Policy, Health Reform, and Delivery System Improvement. Slideshow: The election and the ACA's future.