- Among beneficiaries without subsidies, the percent who did not fill a prescription for a specialty drug within 90 days was 30 percent for anticancer drugs, 22 percent for hepatitis C treatments, and more than 50 percent for disease-modifying therapies for either immune system disorders or hypercholesterolemia.
- Why Social Security finances will steadily worsen indefinitely into the future.
- On current trends Africans will make up over 80% of the world’s poor by 2030.
- Some hospitals are still getting hundreds of millions in Covid funding from FEMA. (Statnews)
- The federal government’s new-car fuel economy standards (CAFE) have resulted in thousands of traffic deaths.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
AI May Be Eavesdropping on Your Next Doctor Visit
I have never had another person in the exam room with my doctor and me during a physician visit after childhood. With the introduction of electronic medical records many people complained there was hardly even a doctor in the room listening to them. Health insurers, and public health advocates, all want a ton of documentation from each physician visit. Increasingly there is another party eavesdropping on your doctor’s visit. An artificial intelligence (AI) interface passively recording and processing the visit discussion and turning the conversation into a coherent medical record.
AI Can Reduce Medication Errors
Medical errors and medical failures do not often result from simple mistakes. Most are the result of a series of failures that lead to serious errors. By the way, the same is true of plane crashes. A simple technical fix is unlikely to solve the problem of incorrect medication errors. A comprehensive system of risk analysis from the pharmacy to the hospital floor or operating room will be necessary to eliminate medication errors.
Monday Links
- Does testosterone affect such preferences as risk taking, fairness and altruism, etc.? No.
- A progressive reviews America’s worst mayor.
- Review of Jeffrey Singer’s new book.
- What price should we pay for new drugs? Part I, Part II and Part III