International HealthCare
Controlled in most countries by the government
Bureaucrats telling the profession how to practice. Feedback . . . Subscribe MedicalTuesday . . . Subscribe HealthPlanUSA . . . Government medicine does not give timely access to healthcare, it only gives access to a hazardous waiting list. In America, everyone has access to HealthCare at all times. No one can be refused by […]
Data Is Difficult to Measure Part V
Healthcare Data Will Only Get More Complex Dan LeSueur Vice President of Client and Technical Operations Posted in Data: Quality, Management, Governance and Data Warehouse / EDW Healthcare data will not get simpler in the future. If anything, this list will grow. Healthcare faces unique challenges and with that comes unique data challenges. Because healthcare data is so […]
Data Is Difficult to Measure Part IV
The data is complex. Dan LeSueur Vice President of Client and Technical Operations Posted in Data: Quality, Management, Governance and Data Warehouse / EDW Claims data has been around for years and thus it has been standardized and scrubbed. But this type of data is incomplete. Clinical data from sources like EMRs give a more complete picture of […]
Hospital’s Struggles Challenges China Health-Care Reform
Mission of Shenzhen facility marks radical departure from how Chinese hospitals are typically run By Shirley S. Wang | The Wall Street Journal Sept. 11, 2015 SHENZHEN—When family-medicine doctor Edward Wu started seeing patients at a new hospital in this southern Chinese city, he began by asking them basic questions about their symptoms and medical […]
Data Is Difficult to Measure Part III
Inconsistent/variable definitions; Evidence-based practice and new research is coming out every day. Oftentimes, healthcare data can have inconsistent or variable definitions. For example, one group of clinicians may define a cohort of asthmatic patients differently than another group of clinicians. Ask two clinicians what criteria are necessary to identify someone as a diabetic and you […]
Data Is Difficult to Measure Part II
The data is structured and unstructured. Dan LeSueur, Vice President of Client and Technical Operations Posted in Data: Quality, Management, Governance and Data Warehouse / EDW. Electronic medical record software has provided a platform for consistent data capture, but the reality is data capture is anything but consistent. For years, documenting clinical facts and findings on paper has trained […]
Difficult to Measure Part I
5 Reasons Healthcare Data Is Unique and Difficult to Measure Dan LeSueur, Vice President of Client and Technical Operations Posted in Data: Quality, Management, Governance and Data Warehouse / EDW. Editor’s Note: Below are both parts one and two of our series on the uniqueness of healthcare data. Those of us who work with data tend to think in […]
NHS breaches target for hospital waits
By Nicholas Timmins, FT, Public Policy Editor Andrew Lansley’s bad week got no better on Thursday as data showed that the National Health Service in England has breached a pledge that no patient need wait more than 18 weeks for hospital admission, for the first time since the coalition government was elected. In February 89.8 […]
From the Stockholm-Network of Think-Tanks
The Stockholm Network is the leading pan-European think tank and market oriented network. HEALTH OF THE NATION – UNITED KINGDOM This new section of Gesundheit! explores individual healthcare systems throughout Europe and analyses the landscape for reform. It begins by looking at the United Kingdom and assesses the National Health Service in light of radical […]
Putin, Chavez and Castro come out for Obama
By Todd Beamon Three world leaders known for their anti-American views are endorsing President Barack Obama’s re-election, Fox News reports. Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, the socialist-leaning leader who won a fourth term this month, reportedly said that Obama was a “good guy.” Meanwhile, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, Mariela Castro, in June told […]