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" 'How's My Doctoring? Patient Feedback's Role In Physician Assessment", Ann Marie Marciarille
" 'How's My Doctoring? Patient Feedback's Role In Physician Assessment", Ann Marie Marciarille
Ann Marie Marciarille
A society-wide consumer revolution is underway with the rise of online user-generated review websites such as Yelp, Angie’s List, and Zagat. Service provider reviews are now available with an intensity and scope that attracts increasing numbers of reviewers and readers. Health care providers are not exempt from this new consumer generated scrutiny though they have arrived relatively late to the party and as somewhat unwilling guests.
The thesis of this article is that online patient feedback on physicians is relevant and valuable even though it is also uncomfortable for health care providers. This is because the modern physician-patient relationship is …
Bending The Health Cost Curve: The Promise And Peril Of The Independent Payment Advisory Board, Ann Marie Marciarille, James Bradford Delong
Bending The Health Cost Curve: The Promise And Peril Of The Independent Payment Advisory Board, Ann Marie Marciarille, James Bradford Delong
Ann Marie Marciarille
Underlying today’s and the future’s health-care reform debate is a consensus that America’s health-care financing system is in a slow-moving but deep crisis: care appears substandard in comparison with other advanced industrial countries, and relative costs are exploding beyond all reasonable measures. The Obama Administration’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) attempts to grapple with both of these problems. One of ACA’s key instrumentalities is the Independent Payment Advisory Board—the IPAB, designed to discover and authorize ways to reduce the rate of growth of Medicare and other categories of health spending. The IPAB is a peril. Expert boards to …
"How's My Doctoring?" Patient Feedback's Role In Physician Assessment, Ann Marie Marciarille
"How's My Doctoring?" Patient Feedback's Role In Physician Assessment, Ann Marie Marciarille
Ann Marie Marciarille
A society-wide consumer revolution is underway with the rise of online user-generated review websites such as Yelp, Angie’s List, and Zagat. Service provider reviews are now available with an intensity and scope that attracts increasing numbers of reviewers and readers. Health care providers are not exempt from this new consumer generated scrutiny though they have arrived relatively late to the party and as somewhat unwilling guests.
The thesis of this article is that online patient feedback on physicians is relevant and valuable even though it is also uncomfortable for health care providers. This is because the modern physician-patient relationship is …