In a recent issue of JAMA, Daniel Morgan (U Maryland) and Deborah Korenstein (Icahn/Mt. Sinai) offered a viewpoint article that revisits the important evaluative conversation
Recent efforts by HHS Secretary Kennedy to politicize CDC policymaking leave us without the science-driven process the nation requires. Therefore, while we wait impatiently for
Slashing and Dissolving As reported by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health News site blog, last week the Trump administration “dissolved” the Agency for Healthcare Research
I want to call your attention to a very thoughtful blog published by the semi-retired health care journalist, Merrill Goozner: the GoozNews Substack. Goozner’s most
There are many good people at the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI). They mean well. They are our friends. But friends need to call out friends
For many years, I’ve been following and writing blog posts about one of my heroes, Don Berwick, a physician leader, Obama-era CMS Administrator and one
In a recent health policy viewpoint article in JAMA, Drs. Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan noted that, although the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid
For almost a year, the weary public has been receiving a confusing mix of information and misinformation and witnessing an inconsistent and sometimes incoherent policy-making
To meet post-pandemic expectations of consumers, healthcare providers need a strategy for consumer-focused care processes, supported by consumer-friendly provider networks and enabling technology.
During the 1990s, I served as the director of the Center for Clinical Effectiveness at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. I was lucky