These so-called virtual assistants are algorithms, and function as a form of artificial intelligence (AI). In that regard, you ask questions, and they respond similarly to how an actual assistant would, except much faster. Someday algorithms like Siri and Alexa could provide high quality health advice.
Category: Health Insurance
A Dose of Transparency Would Benefit Patients
The problem with many of the past remedies and current proposals to fix health care is they tackle symptoms rather than the root cause of the problem. Reforms often tinker around the edges putting out fires caused by earlier reform attempts. None ever really reforms the incentives to make health care work like a market.
Wednesday Links
- Controversial Meta-analysis of 74 studies finds a relationship between fluoride exposure and lower IQ.
- Then downside of fewer diagnostic categories in Medicare Advantage: increased incentives for risk selection and reduced incentives to provide high-quality care to beneficiaries with diagnoses in the excluded groups.
- “Our findings reveal that hospitals (for-profit and nonprofit) have consistently maintained higher profit margins than insurance companies…. our analysis suggests that high hospital prices drive insurance premiums.”
- Does investing in social determinants of health pay off?
- No, moderate drinking will not give you cancer. See also, WSJ
Monday Links
- The case for all kind of legal immigrants.
- Humorous prediction from Michale Milleson.
- Easing EMS access to blood could save 10,000 U.S. lives.
- Questionable research claim: Childcare Benefits More Than Pay for Themselves at US Companies.
- What happens when Brue Cross stops covering the services of the only hospital system that can save your child’s life?