Healthcare Triage
Buprenorphine Regulations and Better Treatment of Addiction
We face a lot of obstacles on the road to ending the opioid crisis, and one of them revolves around access to evidence-based addiction treatments. The X-waiver, a waiver physicians must obtain to prescribe the partial opioid agonist...
Healthcare Triage
Does Better Education Mean Better Health?
Many, many studies have associated better and more education with better health outcomes? But which way does the causality go? Do people attain more education because they're healthy? Or maybe those who are in a economic position to...
SWPictures
The Struggle to Breathe: Tackling Childhood Pneumonia in the Philippines
The Struggle to Breathe part 2/8: This video explores the causes of pneumonia and its impact on children, particularly in impoverished areas where pollution and malnutrition increase the risk of infection. The importance of vaccination...
Healthcare Triage
The Many Attempts to Improve the Value of Medicare
There have been a lot of innovations in Medicare over the last decade or so, with the intent of improving the program's value. There have been some successes, but there is still a lot to be done.
Healthcare Triage
New Research On Plant-Based Diets and Mortality
A new study out this month claims plant-based diets are associated with lower risk of not only cardiovascular disease and mortality but of all-cause mortality as well. Can this be so?
Healthcare Triage
Marijuana and The Risk of Stroke
Sources like WebMD would have you believing that smoking pot drastically increases your risk of stroke. Let’s see what sources like Healthcare Triage think about that.
Healthcare Triage
How and When Will We Get A Coronavirus Vaccine?
Racial inequality runs deep in healthcare and has pervasive, devastating outcomes. Because our expertise here at Healthcare Triage is in health, that is where we feel we are best suited to shine a light on racial disparities. What is...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Rethinking Finance as a Part of the Whole
In part 4 of INET's interview with John Fullerton, he says that we should start looking at the financial system as a subset of the larger biosphere, emphasizing the connections between the environment and the economy
Healthcare Triage
The ACA Insurance Exchanges Are Open! Go Get Insured!
While Obamacare is has been under legislative threat all year, it's still the law of the land, which means the exchanges are open for business for 2018. So if you don't get insurance through your employer or Medicare or the VA, you...
The Wall Street Journal
Employee Experience in a Labor-Starved Economy
As rebounding economies left companies struggling to fill important roles, Chipotle Chief People Officer Marissa Andrada and Atrium CXO Vishal Bhalla discuss the role employee experience can play in attracting and retaining talent.
Healthcare Triage
Why Have Doctors Been So Slow to Embrace Email?
Medicine has been slow to catch up with the idea of email communication in the workplace. Electronic consultations are less expensive and can be more convenient than in-person visits, but they aren’t without cost.
Healthcare Triage
Who Invented Vaccines? A History of Variolation and Innoculation
Part one of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, dives into the history of variolation, exploring the beginning of the long road that led to vaccines as we know...
The Wall Street Journal
In-Person, Virtual or Hybrid?
As we emerge from the pandemic, New York Presbyterian SVP and CXO Rick Evans and Forrester Chief Business Technology Officer Steven Peltzman discuss where in-person business will return and where virtual and hybrid solutions work best.
The Economist
How to revive the NHS
Britain's National Health Service is facing serious challenges, 70 years after its creation. Lord Ara Darzi, a surgeon and former health minister, gives us his prescription for nursing the NHS back to health
TLDR News
Trump's State of the Union Explained (2020) - TLDR News
On Tuesday President Trump addressed the nation to highlight some of his successes and set out his plans for 2020. We discuss the key moments and themes of the address and think about what it shows about Trump's plans for the 2020...
Healthcare Triage
Should You Get a Covid Vaccine Booster?
As booster shots become available in the United States, many Americans are scrambling to get them. But are these shots the best use of our resources? Who really benefits from them and what is the most prudent way to use our vaccine...
Healthcare Triage
The Trump Administration Has Many Options to Undermine Obamacare
While the Senate and the House haven't been very effective in passing repeal of Obamacare, the ACA's provisions are still at risk. There's a lot that Donald Trump's administration can do (or not do) to undermine Obamacare's provisions...
Healthcare Triage
More Medicaid News, but This Time Its Not All Terrible!
This week, Seema Verma announced that the administration would not approve several requests by states to place lifetime limits on Medicaid benefits. How about that? The CMS doesn't do much to protect benefits these days, but this is a...
Healthcare Triage
Wellness Programs Don't Really Work
The gold standard of medical research, the randomized controlled trial, has been taking a bit of a beating lately. An entire issue of the journal Social Science and Medicine was recently devoted to it, with many articles pointing to...
Healthcare Triage
Covid-19 and Long-term Recovery
Most of the world has been working on the assumption that when a person recovers from Covid-19, everything just goes back to normal. As the pandemic progresses though, we're learning about some patients who experience long-term...
Healthcare Triage
Canada's Healthcare System Explained!
Last week we discussed the United States health care system. This week we discuss Canada's. We also take some time to bust some myths about their single payer health care system. Fight about it in the comments below.
Healthcare Triage
Facts Don't Really Change Minds
GMOs. Vaccines. Death Panels. There are a lot of "beliefs" circulating about a wide variety of health policy issues. Luckily, these are all pretty well researched areas. Thanks to thorough investigations, we can conclude with certainty...
The Wall Street Journal
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on America's Plan for Future Pandemic
Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 21st Surgeon General, outlines how the pandemic is already shaping the way leaders from the worlds of politics, science and business prepare for future global health emergencies.
Healthcare Triage
Dates, Raspberry Leaf Tea, and Myths about Labor and Delivery
Pregnancy comes with a lot of advice concerning everything from how to determine the sex of the baby to how to ease both pregnancy symptoms and the oft-dreaded task of labor and delivery. Most of these stand on little to no evidence, but...