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According to Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters, the CBO’s cost projection that the healthcare reform bill will be cheaper than current estimates doesn’t tell the whole story – the CBO is “required to base their calculations on current law, and current law has physician fees slashed by over 20% this fall.” Paduda says clearly “that is NOT going to happen,” meaning that “the real cost of the Medicare program is going to be at least a quarter billion dollars higher than CBO projects.” Go read more here.
 
 
 
   
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Electronic Medical Records Need to Be More Intuitive for Doctors
It’s commonly thought that the current generation of medical students are more technologically savvy, and thus, able to better utilize EMR systems. But a study of 200 medical students found they had a hard time retrieving useful info from their EMR. It’s a testament to the non-intuitive user interfaces that most EMRs have that these students, most of whom use online social networking tools, could not successfully find the necessary patient information.
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Reforming Healthcare & Managed Care
Jeff Kaplan, MD, MS

What Happens if Healthcare Reform Fails?
A recent New York Times editorial, states that the status quo for our healthcare system is immoral, impractical, and unsustainable. Yet no proposition identifies, in a practical way what does or does not work on the front lines of medicine.


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David Lubin, MD

Trial and Error
Over-testing is one of the big stories in healthcare right now. David Lubin, MD, wonders when the screenings and over-testing became “the standard of care.”


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