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NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016: Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal

NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016: Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories. As usual, our list focuses on inpatient and intensive care topics that most of us see in our daily practice. We hope that you find this list...
Source: jwatch.org

What is a Pseudo R-squared? « Healthcare Economist

What is a Pseudo R-squared? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

IBM working on robot to take care of the elderly : Technology major IBM is developing a robot based on SoftBank's Pepper

IBM working on robot to take care of the elderly : Technology major IBM is developing a robot based on SoftBank's Pepper to assist the elderly and their caregivers. The robot will study ways of measuring heart and respiratory rate, answer basic health-related questions and determine if an individual...
Source: inshorts.com

Fixing Obamacare Takes Back Seat, Poll Finds: The public ranks lowering prescription drug prices and ensuring that insurance

Fixing Obamacare Takes Back Seat, Poll Finds: The public ranks lowering prescription drug prices and ensuring that insurance plans have adequate health care networks as higher priorities than tinkering with Obamacare, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll released just before the November elections....
Source: jamanetwork.com

Why Americans Die Younger Than Europeans: Americans are more obese, poorer, more isolated, and with less access to health

Why Americans Die Younger Than Europeans: Americans are more obese, poorer, more isolated, and with less access to health care—and it's killing them.
Source: theatlantic.com

Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures.

Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures. The potential for quality-linked reimbursement to incentivized improved quality of care, however, depends critically on whether physician quality can be measured reliably."
Source: healthcare-economist.com

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming

The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. Machine intelligence is, in its essence, a prediction technology, so the economic shift will center around a drop in the...
Source: digitopoly.org

Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia,

Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia, of Manormead care home near Hindhead needing somewhere else to live
Source: theguardian.com

Digital-native outlets in Europe are more pragmatic than innovative, report suggests

"Digital-native news outlets in Europe tend to be more focused on delivering quality journalism than on creating new business models or innovating about ways news is presented, according to a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that studied 12 online startups in France,...
Source: niemanlab.org

Can third-party inspections of whether healthcare organisations are fulfilling mandatory standards improve healthcare outcomes?

Can third-party inspections of whether healthcare organisations are fulfilling mandatory standards improve healthcare outcomes? | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org

Women Encourage Other Women to Lead and Discover Their Inner Entrepreneur: Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders Join Forces to

Women Encourage Other Women to Lead and Discover Their Inner Entrepreneur: Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders Join Forces to Celebrate Women ’s Entrepreneurship Day in San Francisco
Source: ieee.org

Virgin Care given £700m health contract in Bath and North East Somerset - BBC News: A contract to provide community health

Virgin Care given £700m health contract in Bath and North East Somerset - BBC News: A contract to provide community health and care in Bath and North East Somerset over the next seven years is approved for Virgin Care.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Trump’s healthcare plans get swift Republican makeover [Updated]: Obamacare repeal still central, but now no imported

Trump’s healthcare plans get swift Republican makeover [Updated]: Obamacare repeal still central, but now no imported prescriptions, more pro-life.
Source: arstechnica.com

E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017.

blog post image E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017. I'm looking forward to engaging with as many of them as I can. Conversational technology. Why not have immediate access and personal learning support on platforms through messaging...
Source: agnate.co.uk

The problem with p-values « Healthcare Economist

The problem with p-values « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Will payers pay for new healthcare technologies « Healthcare Economist

Will payers pay for new healthcare technologies « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Great list of mental models from DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg via the Healthcare Economist. Includes Hanlon's razor,

Great list of mental models from DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg via the Healthcare Economist. Includes Hanlon's razor, Pareto efficiency, survivorship bias, and the Pygmalion effect.
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Trends in Life Expectancy among Older Americans, by Race « Healthcare Economist

Trends in Life Expectancy among Older Americans, by Race « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

The President Reviews the Lessons of the Affordable Care Act: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo

The President Reviews the Lessons of the Affordable Care Act: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM President Barack Obama presents his analysis of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in JAMA , which also contains several editorials on the future of...
Source: jwatch.org

Good read. "Humanising healthcare" by Dr Margaret Hannah. Great ideas briefly and clearly explained. The book outlines an

Good read. "Humanising healthcare" by Dr Margaret Hannah. Great ideas briefly and clearly explained. The book outlines an approach in Fife to reduce winter pressures on beds by encouraging patients, staff, and community to seek better health care. The ideas are based on Alaska's Southcentral Foundations's...
Source: amazon.co.uk