Attention all you design and #nudge fans. Here is a graphic from ProPublica that attempts to help people choose a physician.
Do you think it works? What would you do to improve it?
“Why It’s Not Time for Health Care Rationing” – Hastings Center Report
She drew the life-saving medication into the syringe, just 10cc of colorless fluid for the everyday low price of, gulp, several hundred dollars. Was that a new chemotherapy, specially designed for her tumor? Was it a “specialty drug,” to treat her multiple sclerosis? Nope. It was insulin, a drug that has been around for decades….
It used to be that hospitals billed Medicare for the services they provided, and Medicare – I know this is crazy! – simply paid the bills. Those days are rapidly receding into history. Soon, a significant chunk of hospital revenue will be at risk, under a series of Medicare pay-for-performance programs. The idea behind P4P…
“Sleepless in the hospital: Our own default” – ACP Hospitalist
Here is a hilarious effort by Utah Valley State presumably to either keep people from crashing into each other while they text on the stairway, or more likely to show them how stupid it is to be engaging in that behavior in that location:
There are a lot of factors that influence surgical success. It starts with the health of the patient – the sicker you are, the greater risk you have of experiencing postoperative problems. In addition, it’s critical to figure out whether surgery is “indicated,” as clinical folks would say it. But once you have decided surgery…