Comparative Effectiveness in Healthcare

You’ve either seen, heard or perhaps been involved in a situation where a family member asks to borrow money, and later you find out they took a weekend vacation that the lender could not afford.  It’s natural that when you lend money to someone, you have some interest into their spending choices.  Look at what [...]

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Health Care Reform From A Patient Level Perspective

In Ohio there are many small roads that go under train trestles. At the time train tracks were being laid, it was cheaper to simply dig down and have the road go under the train tracks, rather than building bridges over them.  The challenge is, many of these roads were built when cars were much [...]

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One Reason Why Economies Improve

What doesn’t stop or even slow down during an recession?  Depreciation.  Regardless of what we hear on TV in regard to the slowing economy, depreciation still continues.  Car breaks and tires ware out, computers break, even educations depreciate as new innovations develop and new skills are required;  and yes, even parts of people fall into [...]

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Healthcare Reform and the Coss Conundrum

There are a lot of hopes placed upon the role of healthcare IT to address the ills of the healthcare industry, some are legitimate, many are not.  One such limitation I call the Coss Conundrum which goes like this.

Suppose for a moment that you and I are in a business arrangement in which your [...]

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