Why Healthcare Data Won’t Magically Create Value-Based Care
Irv Lichtenwald, President & CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation
The conversation about transitioning the American healthcare system from fee for service (FFS) to value-based care (aka, pay for performance) has been going on for more than 15 years. Still, it felt like time travel to come across a Health Affairs book review from 2006 by the late Princeton Professor Uwe Reinhardt that could have been written last month.
In evaluating what he describes as the “utopian vision” laid out in Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg’s
Redefining Health Care (a title, by the way, that can be recycled without penalty just as soon as the previous use has fallen out of the public memory), Reinhardt identifies a fatal flaw: Explaining what American healthcare
Health officials urge Utah parents to vaccinate children against COVID-19
Associated Press
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SALT LAKE CITY â With Monday s news that the This is really a great step forward in the fight against the pandemic. It s great news for children, I think every pediatrician in the state is incredibly happy to hear it, said Dr. Andrew Pavia of University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Childrenâs Hospital.
Utah s youth population is one of the highest in the country, with nearly 30 percent of residents under the age of 18.
Since the pandemic began, only one child has died of COVID-related illness in Utah. But while the virus is not perceived to be as harmful to children as it is to adults, the vaccine will prevent Utah s younger residents from passing the coronavirus to their parents, family or others they interact with in the community.
Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
Adolescents could be getting vaccinated against COVID-19 within days, a Utah doctor said Monday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of the Pfizer vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds, a decision that still must be endorsed by another federal agency.
“Probably by the end of the week at places that are already offering vaccine the eligibility will change to where anybody 12 and older can come in, whereas now it’s 16 and older,” said Dr. Andrew Pavia, University of Utah Health chief of pediatric infectious disease and director of epidemiology at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital.
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