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RESOURCE: How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care by Arnold Relman | The New York Review of Books

"The US is facing a major crisis in the cost of health care. Corrected for inflation, health expenditures in the public sector are nearly doubling each decade, and those in the private sector are increasing even more rapidly. According to virtually all economists, this financial burden, which is now consuming

Posted on 9 Jan 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Rapid Learning Healthcare System, Resources

RESOURCE: Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker

"If Camden, New Jersey, becomes the first American community to lower its medical costs, it will have a murder to thank. At nine-fifty on a February night in 2001, a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot while driving his Ford Taurus station wagon through a neighborhood on the edge of the

Posted on 9 Jan 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Rapid Learning Healthcare System, Resources

RESOURCE: Platform helps patients understand doctors’ explanations | Springwise

"According to statistics from Jiff, the company behind the application, some 80 percent of the information health professionals give to patients is forgotten once the appointment is over, and people also remember 50 percent of their doctor’s medical talk incorrectly. The app is a presentation tool which enables doctors to