By Lucy Doyle, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ten years ago, I found myself in a village in rural central China that was ravaged by AIDS. Villagers had contracted the disease through a contaminated blood-selling …
Category: Healthcare Policy
Clinical Correlations
From the Archives – $50,000: The price of a car or the price of life?
October 21, 2010
Commentary by Vlad Fridman, MD
$50,000. This is the price of a new (and cheap) model BMW, and also a price the US government is willing to spend to prolong your …
The Ethics of Electronic Health Records
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 …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
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 …
Much Ado about Comparative Effectiveness
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 …
What should the Surgeon General do?
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 …
Grand Rounds: “Health Care Access and Its Impact on Health Disparities”
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 …
Pay for Performance: A Temporary Solution for Improving Health Care Quality
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 …