Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Category Archives: Utilization
Hospital billing varies wildly, government data shows
From the New York Times: A hospital in Livingston, N.J., charged $70,712 on average to implant a pacemaker, while a hospital in nearby Rahway, N.J., charged $101,945. In Saint Augustine, Fla., one hospital typically billed nearly $40,000 to remove a … Continue reading
The million-dollar workplace wellness heart attack screen
From the Health Affairs blog: Three years after wellness was hailed as perhaps the only truly bipartisan component of the Affordable Care Act, both lay and trade commentators have begun observing that the assumptions behind it were incorrect while downsides were overlooked. As a predictable result, savings have … Continue reading
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Tagged health behavior, health care reform, health policy, insurance
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Costs for Hospital Stays in the United States, 2010
From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ): Statistical Brief #146 presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on costs of hospital stays in the United States in 2010. Both aggregate hospital costs and the average costs per … Continue reading
Lower emergency room use from patients with after-hours physician access
From Health Affairs: The first study to use a nationally representative sample to describe after-hours care in the US demonstrated that emergency room usage is significantly lower when patients have access to after-hours services with their primary care provider. According … Continue reading
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IOM Consensus Report – For the Public’s Health: Investing in a Healthier Future
On April 10th, the Institute of Medicine released their consensus report, For the Public’s Health: Investing in a Healthier Future. From their press release: “To improve America’s lackluster performance on health outcomes compared with its peer nations and to maintain … Continue reading
The Cost Of Medicare: You Get What You Pay For
In a post from the Health Affairs Blog, Caroline Poplin commnents on a recent article in teh journal Health Affairs that describes the growth of new cardiac surgery programs at the same time that the number of grafts fell. Were the … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, Medicare, spending, utilization
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Need state-specific information on healthcare quality?
The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) has released the 2010 state snapshots based on data collected in the National Healthcare Quality Report. Pick a state & compare its quality ranking against national or best-performing states on specific measures. New this year … Continue reading
Social media & brain trauma treatment
Among the many interesting stories in the May issue of Research Findings from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality is a story on how social media, such as instant messaging and mobile phone applications, can be used to provide … Continue reading
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Tagged AHRQ, health behavior, health disparities, research, social networking
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News from Kaiser Health–Insurance for young adults, Medicare funding & rewards for quality care
Lots of good stories from First Edition this morning. Here’s a sampling: Continued analysis of Rep. Ryan’s plan from the New York Times and the Washington Post. (Is it really just like Congress’s health plan as claimed? Well, the federal government … Continue reading
Decrease in Michigan’s rate of pneumonia in patients on ventilators
In the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) latest Research Activities newsletter is a report the success of a program in Michigan that reduced rates of pneumonia in patients on ventilators by 70% and maintained that rate for 2 1/2 years. The … Continue reading
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