Medical

Magazine articles on health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical technology.

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Managed Care March 2000	Headlines on Deadline... Congressional Budget Office estimate of employer premium increase from Bipartisan Managed Care Improvement Act... Dot MD, the first internet vanity domain... etc.
Managed Care March 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Medical Errors, D.C.'s New Cause - Will Result Be Action, or Just Talk? ...In its landmark study, "To Err Is Human," the Institute of Medicine embarrassed health care by labeling it at least a decade behind other high-risk industries in protecting its customers....
Managed Care March 2000 Mark D. Abruzzo	Beating Obesity Begins By Expanding Tort Reform It's been suggested that, in order to battle obesity, HMOs should use their collective information and knowledge to change their members' behavior....
Science News February 26, 2000 Janet Raloff	Sickening Food Attempting to quantify the number of food poisoning cases.
Managed Care November 1999 Karen Ignagni	Health Plans Will Use New Tools To Help Physicians Practice Better For the first time, plans are in a position to work with physicians to improve outcomes, efficiency, and patient safety....
Managed Care November 1999 Peter I. Juhn, M.D.	An Evidence-Based Approach To Care Depends on All Parties -- Physicians Included ...transforming the delivery of care into a systematic approach that is based on the best medical evidence -- is dependent on more than just laying out the rules...
Managed Care November 1999 Al Lewis	Irresistible Force Called DM Facing Some Immovable Objects Disease Management
Managed Care November 1999 Steve Wetzell	To Cure Risk Aversion, Employers Eye Risk Adjustment ...The more employers can get consumers involved in the game, the more providers will become directly accountable to consumers. Under traditional managed care, employers -- without realizing it -- have put themselves in the middle of the relationship between physicians and their patients...
Managed Care November 1999 Margaret E. O'Kane	Quality-Measurement Organizations Look Beyond HMO and POS Plans Now that the hard part -- forging quality-measurement systems for HMOs and point-of-service plans -- has been done, the next step is to adapt these programs to the rest of the health care industry....
Managed Care November 1999 Peter Lee, J.D.	Consumer Power Will Put HMOs, Physicians on Spot ...Four themes will continue to grow in importance as the shift to consumer and patient empowerment continues into the 21st century...
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