Study Group: WebMD Envoy Users (US)(?)

Credit will likely get tighter before it eases.  1) Bank Letter of Credits will be called upon to provide liquidity, making less funds available to be lent out.  2)  Car manufactures and other industries dependent on consumers purchaing with the use of credit. 3)  Traditional...

1) Health Care Financing Administration published hospital mortality rates in the 80's, only to later discontinue the practice.  2) Mortality rates are a poor proxy for quality.  3)  Other measures are better to assess quality of care.

Misaligned economic incentives are mostly responsible for the low rates of adoption of EHRs.  Physician resistance to change is much less a force than the simple fact that it costs time and money to convert a practice to an EHR, and the financial benefits of an EHR do not accrue to the physici...

CMS has the objective of keeping their costs down, increasing quality, protecting the Stark laws against physician referrals, and guarding against beneficiaries being enticed to receive more services than necessary.  CMS threw all these objectives into the ACE demonstration project.  The problems...

The status quo will be maintained during the election year.  But, what will happen to the funding for physicians and hospitals after the election?   Healthcare and defense are the two largest components of the Federal budget.  Congress will likely act to gain budget reductions in both...