Author Archive: Dan Munro
Today’s Slice of Healthcare Humor – by Lewis Black
Comics rarely traverse the healthcare topic with much success – but once in a while a real gem appears. That’s today’s installment from none other than Lewis Black – with this 4 1/2 minute segment from his Broadway performance (recorded back in 2007). It’s definitely not new – but it’s definitely a classic – and [...]
Poverty Getting Worse In … Silicon Valley?
Well worth reading … as it highlights the larger issue of income inequality that is spanning the U.S. … Poverty Getting Worse In … Silicon Valley? The healthcare implications are significant – but I can’t help but think this is even deeper – more profound than all the challenges (and there are many) related to our [...]
“Our Hearts Are Broken Today” – President Barack Obama
As the crow flies, Newtown Connecticut is less than 25 miles from New Canaan Connecticut – and Sandy Hook Elementary School is about 28 miles from West Elementary School – which I attended years ago. Given their proximity to New York City, many of these small Connecticut towns are considered “bedroom” communities – and they are often described as bucolic. In fact, my [...]
Medscape’s Annual Physician Compensation Chart
Not really news – but an important element of our healthcare heartburn because it highlights the huge compensation disparity between primary care and specialists. This also intersects (very directly) with the cost of medical training – and how that’s financed (typically via big loans that are equivalent in size – for many – to home [...]
The Breakdown of $1.2 Trillion in U.S. Healthcare Waste
This report is a little dated (2008), but this single chart captures the different categories of waste highlighted in the full report. It was – and still is – pretty amazing. The full PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report – The Price Of Excess – is downloadable here.
The Curtain Opens On The WWW Conference
Earlier this year, Seth Godin had a seminar that talked about impresarios. I didn’t attend the seminar, but Seth’s definition – like many of his keen observations – is pitch perfect: “Weave together resources and opportunities and put on a show. That’s what impresarios have always done. You rent the opera hall, find the singers and sell tickets. You [...]
Biohacking Healthcare – Part 2
Guest post by biohacker - Eric Valor - who was diagnosed with ALS in 2005 (Biohacking Healthcare – Part 1 here) Cloudy With A Chance Of Models One of the most valuable research tools is a model of the type of problem you are trying to solve. This allows for study of the problem mechanism and allows [...]
Is the Individual Mandate Unconstitutional?
Obviously not as relevant as before the decision by SCOTUS – but I still like the legal logic of this – and it might help those who still oppose an individual mandate to understand the legal – and political argument(s) supporting it’s use. I also think that history will look back on the original PPACA [...]
Biohacking Healthcare – Part 1
Here’s a fairly new term for the healthcare lexicon – biohacking. Wikipedia files their entry under the single category of human biology. The entry itself is very brief and, at least according to Wikipedia, there are two meanings: the art of managing one’s own biology using a combination of medical, nutritional, electronic, and Quantified Self techniques The second is [...]
Healthcare’s Question of the Decade
Sure sounds simple enough. “How can we continue to argue about who pays for what – without knowing what’s worth paying for?” That’s basically the question that H. Gilbert Welch, Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, asks at the end of his New York Times piece: Testing What We Think We Know. For years we’ve [...]
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