Leveraging health quality information

Project to help providers evaluate and improve the quality of patient care, allow insurers to assess and evaluate the performance of their provider networks in a common way, and enable consumers to see how hospitals are performing.

     
   Jon C. Tilburt, M.D.

A recent study reveals that physicians prescribe placebo treatments in clinical practice on a regular basis – a practice that on its face appears to violate professional ethics and raises questions about how and why placebos are being used, the propriety of their use, and the very way in which “placebo effect” ought to be conceptualized.

MCARE abatement stuck in stalemate

The connection of medical liability premium subsidies to health insurance expansion has led to a political impasse, which could cost Pa. health care providers billions of dollars over the next ten years and severely impair efforts to recruit physicians to the state for years to come.

POS President 
Jon B. Tucker, M.D.

Historic mental health parity law passes 

Historic law brings equity, with limits.

Commentary:
Corner not turned on malpractice crisis

Medicine & Computers:
Electronic health records in litigation

Medicine & Business:
Documenting a solid H&P, part 2