LIFE IN THE END ZONE

All over the country, hospitals are setting up “rapid response teams.” The idea is to intervene quickly when a patient looks as though he mi...

The next administration will have an historic opportunity to reform the American health care system. The federal government might actually d...

Why isn’t everyone talking about the new Massachusetts Health Care Reform law? Is it that the Governor signed the legislation into law durin...

Federal Reserve president Ben Bernanke stood in front of the Senate Finance Committee a month ago and delivered some bad news: the cost of h...

I often wonder just how many billions of dollars Americans spend every year on producing reports. Think tanks, government agencies, and acad...

For 35 years, the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has been publishing startling data on regional variation in the amount of money spent on m...

At 43 pages, the newly released report from the Alzheimer’s Association, “Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures.” is 50% longer than last ye...

In the ten months that I have served on the Massachusetts Public Health Council, no issue has been more contentious than “limited service cl...

It’s official: combined federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid has reached 4.6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), up from 4.2% in 2005...

In a bold move intended to foster quality care, the Massachusetts Hospital Association has begun posting data on its web site about the risk...