We've talked about this before, as have many others, all apparently to no end. Building these machines helps no one. It improves the hospitals bottom line by selling a more expensive service that may sound good but time and again has proven to be no better than existing, cheaper technologies.
Proton Beam Therapy Heats Up Hospital Arms Race - Kaiser Health News: ""We don’t have evidence that there’s a need for them in terms of medical care. They’re simply done to generate profits."
The higher costs of proton services ultimately trickle down to taxpayers, employers and consumers in the form of higher health insurance premiums. "
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Will high tech innovations actually improve health outcomes?
Will high tech innovations actually improve health outcomes?:
We've talked about this before, but yet another reminder that we know how to better care for people, we just are not doing it yet.
"If you really want to see the future of medicine, skip TEDMED and head over to Camden, New Jersey"
“There is a bias in medicine against talking to people and for cutting, scanning and chopping into them. If this was a pill or or a machine with these results it would be front-page news in the Wall Street Journal. If we could get these results for your grandmother, you’d say, ‘Of course I want that.’ But then you’d say, what are the risks? Does she need to have chemotherapy? Does she need to be put in a scanner? Is it a surgery? And you’d say, no, you just have to have a nurse come visit her every week.”
We've talked about this before, but yet another reminder that we know how to better care for people, we just are not doing it yet.
"If you really want to see the future of medicine, skip TEDMED and head over to Camden, New Jersey"
“There is a bias in medicine against talking to people and for cutting, scanning and chopping into them. If this was a pill or or a machine with these results it would be front-page news in the Wall Street Journal. If we could get these results for your grandmother, you’d say, ‘Of course I want that.’ But then you’d say, what are the risks? Does she need to have chemotherapy? Does she need to be put in a scanner? Is it a surgery? And you’d say, no, you just have to have a nurse come visit her every week.”
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Poverty as a Childhood Disease - NYTimes.com
Another reminder, true health policy needs to be about more than just fixing a broken leg, it needs to address underlying issues that can impact one's health for the rest of their lives...
Poverty as a Childhood Disease - NYTimes.com: "These remind us that — more so than in my mother’s generation — poverty in this country is now likely to define many children’s life trajectories in the harshest terms: poor academic achievement, high dropout rates, and health problems from obesity and diabetes to heart disease, substance abuse and mental illness."
Poverty as a Childhood Disease - NYTimes.com: "These remind us that — more so than in my mother’s generation — poverty in this country is now likely to define many children’s life trajectories in the harshest terms: poor academic achievement, high dropout rates, and health problems from obesity and diabetes to heart disease, substance abuse and mental illness."
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
More US babies die day they are born than any industrialized country, report shows - Vitals
Still think we don't have a health care/public health crisis in this country?
More US babies die day they are born than any industrialized country, report shows - Vitals: "The U.S. is a worse place for newborns than 68 other countries, including Egypt, Turkey and Peru, according to a report released Tuesday by Save the Children."
More US babies die day they are born than any industrialized country, report shows - Vitals: "The U.S. is a worse place for newborns than 68 other countries, including Egypt, Turkey and Peru, according to a report released Tuesday by Save the Children."
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