MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'dartmouth atlas'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:44:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455262&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fintegrating-major-health-systems-could-make-things-worse%2F2011.02.09 Health reformers propose the proliferation of integrated health systems, like the Mayo Clinic or Kaiser Permanente, which, according to the Dartmouth Atlas, lead to better patient care and improved cost control. To that end, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have been a major part of health reform, changing the way healthcare is delivered. Never mind that patients may not be receptive to the new model, but the creation of these large, integrated physician-hospital entities that progressive policy experts espouse comes with repercussions. Monopoly power. To prepare for the new model of healthcare delivery, physician practices have been consolidating. In many cases, they’re being bought by hospitals. Last year, I wrote how this is leading to the death of the private practice physician... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455262 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:00:58 +0100 4455262 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3993914&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fprimary-care-has-it-been-oversold%2F2010.09.21 Citing a new study by the Dartmouth Atlas, the Wall Street Journal’s health blog provocatively asks: “Has the notion of ‘access’ to primary care been oversold?” The Dartmouth researchers found “that there is no simple relationship between the supply of physicians and access to primary care.” That is, they found that having a greater supply of primary care physicians in a community doesn’t mean that the community necessarily has better access to primary care. Some areas of the country with fewer primary care physicians per population do better on access than other areas with more primary care physicians. The researchers also report that the numbers of family physicians is more positively associated with better access than the numbers of internists... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3993914 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0100 3993914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3982002&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F09%2Fmatthew-holt-matthew-holt-of-the-health-care-blog-and-i-am-just-absolutely-delighted-today-that-my-interview-subject-is-vi.html By Matthew Holt I was absolutely delighted that after several polite "maybe later" responses I was able to recently interview Victor Fuchs, the Henry J. Kaiser Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. Vic is best known as the "Father of Health... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3982002 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3982002 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3683577&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F06%2Fdoing-their-homework-times-reporters-respond-in-dartmouth-atlas-spat.html By MERRILL GOOZNER Over the weekend, the two New York Times reporters who challenged the core findings of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health stuck to their guns in a detailed response to the rejoinder to their critique. The Dartmouth Atlas,... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3683577 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3683577 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3635728&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1RPluDhZbJk%2F By Michael F. CannonResearch by scholars at Dartmouth Medical School suggests that Americans waste gobs of money on medical care.  Last week, The New York Times ran a fairly lame critique of the Dartmouth research, by Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris.  Kate Steadman of Kaiser Health News provides a good synopsis of expert reaction to the story and writes, “Conservative and libertarian health policy bloggers were largely silent, ignoring the debate.”  Although this libertarian wasn’t exactly ignoring the debate, the categorization is largely fair.  More about that in a moment. Abelson and Harris’s portrayal of the Dartmouth research is completely at odds with my understanding of that research. Source: www.dartmouthatlas.org Decades ago, Dartmouth researchers stum... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3635728 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:20:51 +0100 3635728 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3139006&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F01%2Fthe-five-things-to-pay-attention-to-in-2010.html By Matthew Holt There’s no doubt that despite my thoughts that Obama wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) have pushed health reform in 2009, it was a very big year for health care. Death panels, public options et al—one hundred thousand visits to... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3139006 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3139006 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510467&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F06%2Fmcallen-is-now-a-tale-of-three-counties.html By DANIEL GILDEN Daniel Gilden is a health services researcher with 20 years of hard core quant experience.He's the President of JEN Associates which provides highly specialized analysis of Medicare and Medicaid data. He contacted THCB regarding the fuss about... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510467 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2510467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2477588&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F06%2Fthe-road-from-mcallen-to-el-paso.html By HAROLD S. LUFT Dr. Atul Gawande has provided a chilling description of the problems facing true health reform in his recent New Yorker article. In The Cost Conundrum he describes how medical care is provided in McAllen, Texas, which... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2477588 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2477588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464159&cid=t_240261_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fevidence-based-lobbying.html Leaders of the medical-industrial complex wonder if the Dartmouth research findings might be a touch overblown. I dunno - maybe. But don't we doctors do a lot else based on much less evidence? What fraction of hallowed medical practice is based on no more than class IIb recommendations?Heck, I'm ready for New York to get less medical money. I don't think the kinds of places I'd rather practice are the ones that are overspending. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464159 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:47:00 +0100 2464159 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458089&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F06%2Fdatadriven-health-care-an-interview-with-jerry-reeves-md.html An under-the-radar debate is occurring in health care between those who say data shows that practice variations across the land are “unwarranted” and those who maintain that such variation is inevitable given socioeconomic population differences and cost of practice differences... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458089 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2458089 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405141&cid=t_240261_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F05%2Fconnecting-value-to-coverage-a-first-glimpse.html By MICHAEL PAINTER Would you take a virtual walk with me across the Dartmouth Atlas map on RWJF's web site? Just follow the link. Now, move your cursor first over, say, anywhere in Minnesota. There, you'll see that 2006 Medicare... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405141 Thu, 14 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2405141 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1631185&cid=t_240261_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fmore-health-care-is-not-better.html What explains the large variation in health care costs across the country? You would expect that the regions with the highest health care expenditures have the sickest patients, or have the highest prevalence of chronic health conditions. But you would be wrong. Health care expenditures are highest where health care supply is the highest. As the number of hospital beds, doctors, and medical technologies (”supply-limited health care”) increases, the use of these goods increases as well.More in Clinical Correlations, the blog of NYU Internal Medicine. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1631185 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:18:00 +0100 1631185