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Dr. Ward's Methods Notes

How to use and improve predictive models

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Dr. Ward April 21, 2017 No Comments
Affordable Care Act

Congressional Budget Office: 27 million will lose coverage and premiums will increase by 50% if repeal ACA without replacement

In my last post, I noted that Congress was eager to repeal Obamacare, but lacked consensus on a replacement.  I noted that Obamacare was designed

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Dr. Ward January 17, 2017 No Comments

Are high risk pools really a good replacement for Obamacare architecture?

Congress and the president-elect are enthusiastic about repealing Obamacare, but have not yet achieved any consensus about what to replace it with.  High risk pools

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Dr. Ward January 14, 2017 No Comments
Dr. Ward's Methods Notes

Three ways to keep it simple — one of which is bad

“Keep it simple, stupid.”   The “K.I.S.S.” principle.  Generally a good idea, but not always. Consider three types of simplification: Leaning.  This is about getting rid

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Dr. Ward April 30, 2016 No Comments
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

First take on new CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Plus model

This morning, I read about the recently announced next generation version of the CMS Comprehensive Primary Care model, which will require multi-payer participation and will

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Dr. Ward April 23, 2016 No Comments

Criticism of ProPublica’s Surgical Scorecard fails to consider the possibility of real, useful analytics.

Last week, ProPublica published a scorecard of surgical death and complication rates of more than 17,000 surgeons  for 8 elective procedures using Medicare data.  As

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Dr. Ward July 24, 2015 No Comments
Health Information Technology

How government surveillance of internet data relates to health care privacy and big data

This week, I accompanied my daughter and her elementary school classmates on a field trip to see the musical “The Sound of Music.”  To my

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Dr. Ward June 8, 2013 No Comments
Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)

In the dust-up about “rebooting” the EHR meaningful use incentive program, “the Emperor has no clothes” has been the most interesting response.

Last month, six Republican senators released a document entitled “Reboot: Reexamining the strategies needed to successfully adopt health IT.” The report asserts that the original goal

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Dr. Ward May 25, 2013 No Comments
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Physician-led ACOs now outnumber Hospital-based ACOs: Why this makes sense, and where our terminology breaks down.

At a recent meeting of the American College of Physicians covered in MedPage Today, Neil Kirschner, PhD reported on the growth of ACOs. Dr. Kirschner is

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Dr. Ward April 25, 2013 No Comments

Beautiful video from Cleveland Clinic advocating empathy

We focus on optimizing care processes, analyzing data, implementing technology, and the other technical and scientific aspects of our work to improve health care.  But,

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Dr. Ward March 29, 2013 No Comments
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