Wednesday morning, I attended a thought-provoking panel discussion entitled “Is Health Economics an Un-American Activity?” — a reference to the McCarthy-era Congressional committees that judged
This week, I’m attending the annual meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) in Baltimore. Yesterday evening, I attended an interesting
The American Hospital Association (AHA) engaged McManis Consulting to develop a model of ACO-related start-up and ongoing costs for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The recently released
The American Hospital Association (AHA) engaged McManis Consulting to estimate the start-up and ongoing costs for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The recently released analysis was
— This morning, I read a blog post from someone in the “business intelligence” industry complaining that, after years of innovation, “BI” is not really
— Yesterday afternoon, I had the opportunity to have my first mentoring conversation with Wanyu Liu, a talented young undergraduate at the University of Washington. Wanyu is
Victoria Boyarsky, Howard Kahn, David Mirkin, and Rob Parke from Milliman recently released a Healthcare Reform Briefing Paper entitled “ACOs beyond Medicare.” The paper notes
Victoria Boyarsky, Howard Kahn, David Mirkin, and Rob Parke from Milliman recently released a Healthcare Reform Briefing Paper entitled “ACOs beyond Medicare.” In the paper,
On March 23, 2011, Trent Haywood, MD, JD, and Keith Kosel, PhD, MBA published the results in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) web
Agent-based Modeling (ABM) is a type of computational simulation that involves the creation, inside a computer’s memory, of a collection of objects that are programmed