Is It Time to Play NICE?

Is It Time to Play NICE?

Note: Although it has been more than a decade since passage of ARRA, with almost 20% of GDP spent on healthcare there is much reason to think of better applying evidence-based guidelines in clinical care. The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act 2009 (ARRA) earmarks...
Leverage Clinical Decision Support

Leverage Clinical Decision Support

Americans receive only slightly more than half of the screening, diagnostic, treatment, and follow-up care recommended by experts. In essence, even though healthcare professionals know the proper way to manage patients, these evidence-based rules are mostly not...
Healthcare IT: Slogan or Solution?

Healthcare IT: Slogan or Solution?

In 1980 a Stanford University School of Business professor Alain Enthoven authored a book titled Health Plan: The Only Practical Solution to the Soaring Cost of Medical Care. Dr. Enthoven provided the theoretical underpinnings of managed competition, an approach to...