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2026 cholesterol guidelines: LDL goals, Lp(a), and coronary calcium scoring [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! This episode is sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. In this sponsored episode from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leading preventive cardiologist walks through the 2026 cholesterol guideline update and what it means in practice. Seth J.
AI Adoption in U.S. Health Care Won’t Be Easy
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What the Hospital-at-Home Movement Tells Us About Igniting Innovation in Health Care | JD Supra
[co-authors: James Rebitzer, Peter Wexler, Deborah Wexler] Editor’s Note: In a recent op ed first published in STAT’s First Opinion, James Rebitzer and Robert Rebitzer—coauthors of the new book Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation—discuss the innovative hospital-at-home model and how it might have achieved scale much sooner. Reprinted below, the article also shares four keys to getting innovation moving when adoption seems stalled.
The evolution of lighting vs. cholesterol treatments: a tale of innovation and value
An excerpt from Why Not Better and Cheaper: Healthcare and Innovation by James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer with permission from Oxford University Press, © 2023 by Oxford University Press. In a famous essay, Nobel prize-winning economist William Nordhaus studied the evolution of lighting. From medieval times until the beginning of the 19th Century, the most advanced lighting device was the wax candle.
Health Care and Innovation: Why Not Better and Cheaper? | JD Supra
[co-author: James Rebitzer] Editor’s Note: In their new book, Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James Rebitzer and Robert Rebitzer explore innovation in health care—and why it matters to patients and society. Briefly excerpted below, the book brings together insights on social norms, incentives and competition to examine why health care often generates the wrong kind of innovation—and how to point the system in a better direction.
[Webinar] Health Care and Innovation: Why Not Better and Cheaper? Part 1: Missing Innovations - July 26th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET | JD Supra
New Manatt Webinar Series Explores Innovation in Health Care—and Why It Matters for Patients and Society The evolution of cellphones demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn’t health care also get better and cheaper?
Could a Subscription Model Spur Innovation in U.S. Health Care?
Standard ways of reimbursing for innovations can create disincentives for the development of high-value innovations in health care. One remedy is the development of “Netflix-like” subscription models that entail paying a subscription fee for access to drugs and treatments. Such models are already in use in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Sweden. Consider antibiotics.
Opioid Safety Toolkit for Health Plans - March 2019 | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
Opioid Safety Toolkit for Health Plans | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
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