Category Archives: innovation
a simple intervention
I was invited to participate in a public conversation last night with Atul Gawande, a surgeon who writes for the New Yorker on such things as the cost of health care, solitary confinement, and reducing errors in the ICU. What, … Continue reading
Filed under innovation, writers
more in massachusetts
You know and love Massachusetts as the state with (near) universal health insurance coverage for all of its residents. But their novel system is break-the-bank expensive, so the state is looking to overhaul how it pays for health care. Last … Continue reading
Filed under health care reform, innovation
exciting news on seattle’s wet house
New data shows that a Seattle wet house — which puts street alcoholics in their own studios and lets them keep on drinking — saved Seattle taxpayers $4 million last year. These findings fly in the face of conventional wisdom, … Continue reading
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