Oct 25 Should Hospitals Eliminate Waiting Rooms? To hear Dr. Robert Mecklenburg tell it, the conversation was the first time in his career as a physician that he'd felt ashamed. It happened over 10 years ago when he and a group of his fellow doctors took… Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch Rooting Out Waste in Health Care by Taking Cue From Toyota Assembly Lines Rooting Out Waste in Health Care by Taking Cue From Toyota Assembly Lines… Continue watching
Oct 24 What the U.S. Could Buy With Wasted Health Care Money Imagine an America where the entire business community took its cues from the health care system. Need some help picturing it? According to the respected Institute of Medicine, it's an industry that wasted $750 billion in 2009 between… Continue reading
Oct 24 Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2.6 trillion, or about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Most years,… Continue reading
Oct 23 How to Make Your Hospital Stay Safer and Cheaper: A Checklist EmbedVideo(4783, 482, 304); Elizabeth Bailey made quite a few assumptions when her father developed double vision and needed to see the doctor. She thought that he would receive the proper diagnosis and prescription dosage, to name just two. Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch How to Make Your Hospital Stay Safer and Cheaper Elizabeth Bailey talks with Hari Sreenivasan about her book, "The Patient's Checklist."… Continue watching
Oct 22 Health Costs: How the U.S. Compares With Other Countries By Jason Kane How much is good health care worth to you? $8,233 per year? That's how much the U.S. spends per person. Worth it? That figure is more than two-and-a-half times more than most developed nations in the world, including relatively rich… Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch Freezing Human Eggs for In Vitro Fertilization No Longer Experimental Procedure Freezing Human Eggs for In Vitro Fertilization No Longer Experimental Procedure… Continue watching
Oct 16 Watch More Drugs May Have Been Tainted, Linked to Meningitis Outbreak More Drugs May Have Been Tainted, Linked to Meningitis Outbreak… Continue watching
Oct 16 Debate Guide: Candidates' Positions on Health Care By Kaiser Health News Throughout the presidential campaign, health care has been one of the top issues on voters' minds. The presidential and vice-presidential nominees of the two parties have starkly different visions for how to control costs, improve access to care and… Continue reading