As a presidential candidate and as president of the US, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that “Obamacare is imploding.” For months, the Trump Administration has tried to make that prediction come true. Thanks to the efforts of many healthcare advocates and policymakers, the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare, or the ACA) hasn’t imploded. But the Trump […]
If you think medicine is messy now, just you wait till it becomes “precise.” […]
The ultimate goal must be to remove any difference between indemnity fees paid by doctors in hospital and those who work in general practice […]
No one wants a bankrupt healthcare system, but we need to care for those who are sick or in need […]
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). It came as a surprise to many people who had not heard of the international alliance of over 450 civil society organisations in 101 countries, with its tiny secretariat in Geneva. The award was a tribute to the […]
Harnessing the insights from behavioural science could yield major gains […]
We will all die one day, so let’s try to make sense of it […]
In various blogs that I have been writing in the last few months about translational research, algorithms, knowledge and its diffusion and dissemination, skills, performance, and competence, implementation has been ever present in the background and is an important part of my operational model of translational research. The IndoEuropean root PELƎ meant to fill, with […]
Giving doctors time, space, and continuity may actually save money […]
In the UK, electronic health records (EHR) have been almost universal in general practice since the 1990s, and were deployed across hospitals in the early 2000s. The Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB) was set up in 2013 “to develop high quality, consistent care records and promote their use.” As I sat in the third annual […]