Valley News – A research team from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice has found physician leadership has played a central role in the first wave of Accountable Care Organizations.
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This SAP Hana Supports Personalized Medicine
Information Week – Healthcare is becoming more personal — and providers are using analytics, big data, and collaboration software to learn more about the care, support, and treatment their patients require and want.
Crisis Looms for the Next Generation of Doctors
Concord Monitor – In this op-ed, Kevin Koo, a resident in urology at Geisel, says that the demand for health care providers is on the rise, yet, there is a lack of available residency positions for recently graduated medical students who are on the road to independently practicing as physicians.
Lombard Medical Aorfix(TM) Highlighted at 2014 Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting
Wall Street Journal – Lombard Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVAR), a medical device company focused on Endovascular Aortic Repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), showcased its Aorfix(TM) Endovascular Stent Graft at the 2014 Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Annual Meeting in Boston, June 5-7. Mark Fillinger, M.D., Director, Vascular Surgery Training Programs, Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, will present “Clinical Experience Treating Highly Angulated AAAs On-Label Using the Aorfix Endovascular Stent Graft” at the SVS Vascular Live symposium today.
Medicare Advantage Billing Errors Cost Taxpayers Billions
NBCNews – Dr. David Wennberg, a Dartmouth Institute researcher who has studied the payment issue, said that with billions of tax dollars at stake federal officials need to hit the “reset button” on risk scoring. Wennberg said Medicare Advantage “is a very large program with lots of money flowing through it. There are always vested interests in protecting the status quo.”
BRCA Gene Can Be a Cancer Triple Whammy, Study Finds
TIME – An extensive story on a Geisel study that discovered that a version of the BRCA2 gene, which increases risks of breast and ovarian cancer, may increase the risk of lung cancer as well.
Former Medicare Chief Says the Upper Valley Can Be Health Care Model
Valley News – In a recent speech on health care reform, Don Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, touted the reform efforts of Dartmouth and its affiliates and encouraged the audience to embrace such efforts locally.
Should a Mental Illness Mean You Lose Your Kid?
ProPublica & The Daily Beast – Joanne Nicholson, professor of psychiatry at Geisel and at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC), is quoted extensively in this piece on whether it’s ethical for parents with mental illnesses to lose custody of their children.
More Ticks Means More Concern About Lyme Disease
NHPR – Elizabeth Talbot, an associate professor of medicine at Geisel, was a guest on NHPR’s The Exchange to discuss the rise of Lyme Disease cases.
With Special Clinics, Hospitals Vie for Hesitant Patients: Men
The New York Times – Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine and of community and family medicine and co-director of TDI’s Medicine in the Media Program, was interviewed by the Times to discuss his research on low testosterone, or “low T.” Woloshin says low T therapy is “the mother of all disease mongering.”