David Williams

Since legacy rules hamper rather than facilitate the emergence of a useful new technology, perhaps it’s reasonable to look to other mechanisms to nurture telehealth’s growth with financial incentives.

For years we’ve read that the US faces a looming shortage of nurses. Shortfalls in the hundreds of thousands of nurses are routinely predicted. Yet somehow 43 percent of newly-licensed RNs can’t find jobs within 18 months.

In Reducing surgical complications: How to make it happen faster, I contrasted the way a hospital gets paid for rework with what happens in a manufacturing environment.

When hospitals purchase free-standing physician offices they often convert them into outpatient clinics. The shift isn’t visible on the surface, but underneath the covers a powerful economic transformation has taken place, with the new owners now able to charge a so-called “facility fee” to cover the cost of their infrastructure.

Phil Kalin, CEO of Colorado’s Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) has been out in the community talking about Obamacare.

Bloomberg highlights the challenges many of the newly insured will have in paying for coverage, even with the substantial subsidies available to those with lower incomes.

Papa John’s and some other large chain restaurants are hopping mad that the Affordable Care Act will require them to provide healthcare coverage to their employees or pay a penalty or whatever you want to call it.

It bothered me when Governor Romney cited the continued increase in health care costs as a reason to do away with ObamaCare.

Brian Klepper comments on the American Academy of Family Physicians’ recent moves to knock down the idea that nurse practitioners are equivalent to physicians for primary care.

Looking for a way to send ObamaCare foes into a tizzy? Try suggesting emulating the French system. In any way.