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Reality Check for Health IT
Implementing new health IT may decrease hospital mortality due to medication errors and uncoordinated care, but is the effect great enough to justify multimillion-dollar investments in new technology?...
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Doctors of Lake Wobegon
The most recent issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine includes a provocative survey of primary care physicians—one that indicates a significant, long-overdue change in how both providers and...
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One in Seven
If you ran a summer camp that never reported the vast majority of times that you hurt one of your campers, you'd probably be shut down, arrested, or worse. The situation would be similar if a...
View ArticleAn American Hospital: The Most Dangerous Place?
January 9, 2012 Only one in seven medical mistakes gets noticed and reported. Hospitals should adhere to basic safety measures used by other industries. Shannon BrownleeJanuary 9, 2012Imagine you are...
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Mattress Graves
Shannon Brownlee's back at TIME Ideas with a new op-ed yesterday: this one about the article we mentioned last month, called How Doctors Die. Brownlee adds more context to the first commentary, by...
View ArticleWhat Doctors Know — and We Can Learn — About Dying
January 16, 2012 Physicians are more likely to sign advance directives and avoid rescue measures at the end of their lives. Shannon BrownleeJanuary 16, 2012Last month, an essay posted by retired...
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Loss Leaders, Ahoy!
In her latest installment at TIME Ideas, Shannon Brownlee takes on hospitals that use marketing tactics like offering free screening tests to patients to generate revenue and find new recurring...
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And we're back, with Health Wonk Review!
Apologies for our extended hiatus--we've been hard at work on an extended report, and it hasn't left a lot of time for blogging lately. But we're back, and hopefully we'll be blogging more often in the...
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The End of an Era
It’s the end of an era in modern medicine. House is no more.The Fox show House ended last week. It was entertaining, but as far as health policy is concerned, we’re not sorry to see it go. The main...
View ArticleMass. Has Too Many Hospitals for Its Own Good
June 15, 2012Shannon BrownleeJune 15, 2012Take a walk down practically any major thoroughfare in the city of Boston, and you’ll be hard pressed to go more than a few blocks without running into a...
View ArticleWhy the 'Best' Hospitals Might Also Be the Most Dangerous
July 11, 2012 Hospitals with prestigious reputations often rank poorly on patient safety records. Shannon BrownleeJuly 11, 2012Quick, name America’s three best hospitals. Many people would probably...
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Drug Regulation, Symbolic Votes, and Hospital Safety
Here's our wrap-up of last week's articles by our own Shannnon Brownlee and Joe Colucci:Letting Big Pharma Review Its Own Drugs — What Could Go Wrong? (The Atlantic Health Channel):Earlier this month...
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NEJM Headed in the Right Direction on Overuse
The New England Journal of Medicine just published a great article about physician stewardship as it relates to medical spending. The piece, called "Cents and Sensitivity—Teaching Physicians to Think...
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For Your Thursday Enjoyment: Health Wonk Review!
Hosted this week by Dr. Jaan Sidorov at the Disease Management Care Blog, it's "A Brainy Health Wonk Review on Health Reform, the Affordable Care Act and Lots More!" Go check it out.Health Wonk Review...
View ArticleDo Prestigious Residencies Mean Better Doctors?
November 13, 2012 Styles of practicing medicine vary from hospital to hospital, and they are transmitted to young residents through a "hidden curriculum."Shannon BrownleeJoe ColucciNovember 13,...
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60 Minutes on HMA Admission Practices
Last night, CBS's 60 Minutes aired a segment reporting on the allegations that for-profit hospital chain Health Management Associates (HMA) has committed widespread Medicare fraud, including by...
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"The Waiting Room" at E Street Cinema
E Street Cinema in DC is playing the documentary The Waiting Room, by director Peter Nicks. It profiles the emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, for 24 hours, profiling the patients who...
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Meningitis deaths could have been avoided
This op-ed is co-authored by Jeff Borkan, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Brown University School of Medicine.The media attention and Congressional investigation into the tragic epidemic...
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Guest Post: How Nonprofit Hospital Wealth Can Build Assets for Low-Income...
Editor's note: This blog post was authored by David Zuckerman, Research Associate with The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland. Study after study tell us that socioeconomic factors...
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Productivity and the Health Care Workforce
October 2, 2013Shannon BrownleeJoe Colucci Thom Walsh, Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.[Click here to download the full paper.]Since...
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