January 15, 2010
John J. Mercuri
Faculty peer reviewed
Introduction
The 111th Congress allocated $19 billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 toward the creation of an electronic health record (EHR) for each person in the United States by 2014.(1) The recent…
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Posted in Ethics, Healthcare Policy
September 21, 2009
Carolyn Bevan MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
With health care spending increasing at an unsustainable rate while an estimated 46 million Americans live without insurance [1], the urgent need for healthcare reform in the US is clear. Much less obvious, however, is how…
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Posted in Healthcare Policy, PrimeCuts
July 22, 2009
Minal Kale MD
Nirav R. Shah MD, MPH
In the last few months, academic research communities have been all aflutter with the unprecedented sums of money that are up for grabs, as supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.…
March 4, 2009
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-3, Health Care Policy Section Editor
The name of neurosurgeon and health journalist Sanjay Gupta was leaked in early January as Barack Obama’s choice for Surgeon General. His selection has caused controversy, and the formal nomination…
February 11, 2009
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-3, Health Care Policy Section Editor
As Massachusetts’ Secretary of Health and Human Services, JudyAnn Bigby, MD, is charged with overseeing the health-care program which covers nearly all of the Commonwealth’s residents (nearly 98%) while…
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Posted in Grand Rounds, Healthcare Policy
February 4, 2009
Commentary by Amit Sura, MD, MBA, PGY-1 and Nirav Shah MD, MPH, NYU Assistant Professor of Medicine
On March 1, 2001 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century” in response to…
October 24, 2008
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-3, Health Care Policy Section Editor
Even in the midst of the presidential campaign, we should remember that there are a number of health care plans other than those proposed by McCain or Obama. Given…
October 15, 2008
Commentary by Andrew McKinstry MD PGY-1
Reviewed by Albert B. Knapp MD, FACP, NYU Clinical Professor of Medicine
Biomedical and basic science research are the undisputed driving forces that will shape the future of medicine in the United States. Both presidential campaigns have…
October 2, 2008
Commentary by Albert B. Knapp MD, FACP, PC, NYU Clinical Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology)
The American people are facing a transformational election this November 4th. Many important issues including the focus of our Foreign Policy, the balance of the Supreme Court, and…
July 16, 2008
Surprising results from the Datmouth Atlas of Health Care
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-3, Health Care Policy Section Editor
What explains the large variation in health care costs across the country? You would expect that the regions with the highest…
June 4, 2008
Commentary by Jatin Roper, MD, PGY3, NYU Internal Medicine and Nitin Roper, MSIII, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Pharmaceutical companies play a vital role in improving the public health through drug discovery. These for-profit entities are in the business of…
May 24, 2008
Commentary by Sandeep Mangalmurti MD, JD PGY-2
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Riegel v. Medtronic [1] the first of a series of cases that may fundamentally alter medical liability lawsuits for decades…