Michigan Radio: Report finds geographic differences in health care practices
Report on CHRT’s September 2010 “CHRTBook: Health Care Variation in Michigan.”
Read more >Detroit Free Press: Docs’ practices are questioned: Test, treatment frequency raises concerns
Report on CHRT’s September 2010 “CHRTBook: Health Care Variation in Michigan.” Must pay fee to view full story.
Read more >Michigan Business Review: Report shows how medical care varies across the state
Report on CHRT’s September 2010 “CHRTBook: Health Care Variation in Michigan.”
Read more >A Michigan Look at Variation in Medical Care: Where you live often determines what you get
This week our Center is releasing a report on geographic variation in health care use in Michigan. Geographic variation in the use of health care services has been well described in the literature for more than 20 years now. Jack Wennberg pioneered this kind of systematic analysis at Dartmouth and has been reporting this data on an ongoing basis looking …
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Rates of unnecessary hospitalization highest in Detroit, Dearborn – study
Report on CHRT’s September 2010 “CHRTBook: Health Care Variation in Michigan.” (Free registration required)
Read more >Health Care Reform – The Six Month Mark
September 23, 2010 may well prove to be a particularly important day in the health care reform journey. On that day, six months after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, several key provisions went into effect that were designed to help people see some immediate benefits in advance of the full blown implementation of the law starting in …
Read more >National Health Care Reforms Are Already Beginning
September 23, 2010 marks six months since our new national health care reform law, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), became effective. It remains a controversial undertaking for some, yet a positive step for others. The law’s implementation is a long and complex journey. Much of the spotlight has been on PPACA reforms that begin …
Read more >Actuarial Projections and the ACA: The Good News Story You Never Heard
This week, the esteemed journal Health Affairs published the latest findings from the office of the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), with new estimates on the cost impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). CMS actuaries are now projecting that annual growth in health spending for 2010-2019 will be 0.2 percent higher than projections …
Read more >Peer Reviewed or Not: A Reflection on How We Communicate About What Works (Blogging and All of That)
Labor Day ought to be a time to think and reflect on one’s work. This Labor Day I found myself thinking about this blog and the form of communication it represents. At the end of August, the New York Times ran an article about a change in the approach to publishing scholarly work in the humanities. The opening line of …
Read more >To scan or not to scan
There is an increasing consensus that many high tech radiology procedures are overused but no agreement on what to do about it. An important review study reported in the Archive of Internal Medicine concluded that exposure to even one CT scan can produce cancer later in life. The editorial in the Archive notes that every day more than 19,500 CT …
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