American Heart Association guidelines currently recommend a systolic pressure of less than 140 millimeters of mercury for most adults with high blood pressure, or hypertension. But doctors say these new findings support a steeper goal of 120 — a reduction that could translate into doctors putting millions more Americans with high blood pressure on additional medication.
Read MoreResearch now suggests that the savings the Affordable Care Act creates by revising the government payment to Medicare may also bring some harm to patients.
Read MoreCommoditycare is coming to a clinic near you and many are wary of the McDonaldization of Sick Care. They claim that the four basic principles of operations management driving the underlying business model of McDonalds—efficiency, calculability, predictability and control—“often leads to adverse consequences and… the doctor-patient relationship will be threatened."
Read MoreThe U.S. Senate recently approved a bill that would repeal the majority of the ACA in a vote of 52 to 47. If approved at the House of Representatives, the bill will be sent to President Obama who is expected to veto it.
Read MoreI recently served on an education subcommittee as part of a strategic planning process (cue up groans) for a large hospital system. The issue on the table was how education should look at the institution in five years. As most of you know who have participated in these kinds of things, there was a fair amount of scepticism about the process, the outcomes and recommendations and whether anything substantive would change as a result of our deliberations and recommendations.
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