The Health Transformation Alliance (HTA), a healthcare-focused cooperative comprising 50 major corporations including IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Verizon and Marriott, hosted its annual meeting on [...]
Health policy experts have pointed out that the United States spends dramatically more than other nations on medical care, but markedly less on social services like childcare, nutritional [...]
“Cracking the Code on Healthcare” is a twice-annual event held in Rochester, New York, to educate business and community leaders on ways to further improve healthcare in the area. The city of [...]
As usual, there has been plenty of optimistic chatter to go around at medical meetings in 2019, but little substance in terms of solutions. Between sessions this spring, I tried to think of major [...]
The Group Practice Improvement Network (GPIN) celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. Started in 1993 by the founders of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), GPIN exists to help [...]
A superb annual meeting, the World Health Care Congress (WHCC) brings together leaders from the worlds of medicine, business and politics. Organized by executive director Megan Castilla and based [...]
The American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS) was founded almost a century ago with the mission to provide a forum for scholarly activities that advance the field of plastic surgery. I [...]
As an author, speaker and news contributor, I try to read as much as I can about the world of medicine and the world beyond it. I find the two are often intimately entwined and open interesting [...]
This month’s reader survey was inspired by a recent study on the power of primary care, which found that adding 10 primary care physicians to a population of 100,000 people is associated [...]
The 19th Population Health Colloquium concluded March 20 in Philadelphia with more than 700 people in audience and an exciting lineup of speakers. I was honored to participate alongside [...]
In March, I welcomed your prognostications on the future of healthcare technology. Respondents were asked whether these 6 innovations will be consistently used in medical practice by the year [...]
The Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC) is a volunteer, nonprofit organization that ensures clinicians (both nurses and social workers) have the ability to perform the essential task [...]
The February reader survey asked you to consult your crystal ball and play the role of seer. In 2019, the U.S. Congress will have the opportunity to consider several pieces of healthcare [...]
Welcome to the Fixing Healthcare survey. If you’re looking for the results of the inaugural survey (from January 2019), click here or check out the Season One survey results in this cool [...]
According to the CDC, life expectancy in the United States declined for the third straight year. As impossible as it may seem, the United States now ranks 29th globally in average lifespan [...]
November marks the one-year anniversary of Monthly Musings On American Healthcare. Since starting MMOAH in November 2017, I’ve been honored to share relevant news and insights with nearly 10,000 [...]
Friends, colleagues and readers of “Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Healthcare—And Why We’re Usually Wrong” know that I’m an avid baseball fan. I can scarcely make it through a [...]
This week I had the privilege to present the keynote address at the fourth annual supplementary health forum (Forum da Saúde Suplementar), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a focus on “The [...]
The 2018 Connected Health Conference (#Connect2Health) is the nation’s largest event dedicated to digital and connected health. Held annually in Boston, the event focuses on cutting-edge [...]
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