Outpatient care may cost more when hospitals own the medical practices or employ the physicians, a U.S. study suggests. Hannah Neprash, a health policy researcher at Harvard University is lead author and J. Michael McWilliams (HMS) is senior author of the study.
Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made the top 10 on a new scoreboard for U.S. medical centers with the best patient care.
If the existence of the placebo effect is a mystery, new research on pain medication poses an even greater riddle. Not only is the placebo effect real, it seems to be growing exclusively in the United States. Ted Kaptchuk (Beth Israel Deaconess) is quoted.
Moving hospitals out of paper records and into seamless digital connectivity has been tougher than anyone but hard-core skeptics thought seven years ago, when the federal government began pouring billions of dollars into a push to make electronic medical records the universal standard. Janice Walker (Beth Israel Deaconess) is quoted.
