Insights from the Armstrong Institute
Johns Hopkins ophthalmologist Oliver Schein has found a simple way to save a half a billion dollars a year from our country's health-care bill, with… Read More »A Clear-Eyed Approach to Reducing Costly Health Care Regulations
When patients receive life-altering diagnoses, face aggressive treatments, or have misgivings about a provider’s conclusions, they may wonder if they should seek a second opinion.… Read More »Breaking Down the Barriers to a Second Opinion
The moment that an accreditation team shows up unannounced can spike the pulse of even the most seasoned hospital executive. The next several days will… Read More »Hospitals Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Safety
Her voice cracked with strain. I could imagine the woman at the other end of the line shaking, overcome with remorse about the hospital where… Read More »Why Surgical Volumes Should Be Public
If we want to rein in the costs of the U.S. health-care system — now equal to nearly 18 percent of the nation's gross domestic… Read More »How We Can Engineer a Less Costly Health Care System
If you understand statistics and possess the intestinal fortitude to examine a ranking methodology, you will recognize that it involves ingredients that have to be… Read More »More Science, Less Sausage-Making Needed for Hospital Quality Measures
In 2013, a 52-year-old man went to an emergency department complaining of dizziness. Physicians evaluated him, decided that it was a benign condition — as… Read More »Common Symptoms, Uncommon Causes: Reducing Misdiagnosis on the Front Lines
In the technology-thick landscape of modern health care, the physical exam remains in a backwoods. Sure, there have been advances — blood-pressure cuffs, for example,… Read More »Reinventing the Physical Exam
Health care has been thinking about medical errors for nearly 20 years, starting with the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report “To Err is Human.” This… Read More »Thinking Outside the Hospital: A Call to Action for Outpatient Safety
Every American will experience a missed or delayed diagnosis at some point in his or her lifetime. Saying that is not a scare tactic —… Read More »How Teamwork Can Reduce Missed Diagnoses