Patient-Owned Health Delivery System in Alaska
Before you think I’ve reverted to writing fiction with the title “Patient-Owned Health Delivery System in Alaska” let me share with you things I learned at a presentation last night at the National...
View ArticleFrom Health Insurance to Health Plan – A Patient’s View
It has been interesting for me to watch the transformation of the term health insurer to health plan. Having been insured since in my mother’s womb, I have never been notified that any of my health...
View ArticleThe Real Death Panel: USPSTF and Breast Cancer
In today’s Annals of Internal Medicine and splashed across the front pages of many major newspapers are the shocking new recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that: Women...
View ArticleWhat I Learned About Health at the Sting Concert
I spend almost every waking hour fixated on health and healthcare – my own, my family’s, the nation’s. I do research, discuss, or meet with innovative thinkers and practitioners on economic theories...
View ArticleBeyond the ACO – Creating the Well-Being Society
I have spent the past two rainy days with senior executives from the Adventist Healthcare System and a range of integrative medicine and community leaders as part of an effort called Next Century...
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