checklist medicine – The Treating Physician

art of medicine/electronic medical records/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/MACRA/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship

Consider the Hashtag #Godgifu

Posted on February 15, 2017 12:02 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

I’ve been giving some thought to how to portray in a twitter-short way the fake news element. A major goal of public relations is to find a nice word t...

art of medicine/electronic medical records/health care reform/MACRA/overuse of technology/reducing health care costs

MACRA…An Open Letter to Andy Slavitt

Posted on November 21, 2016 1:50 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

I am not a physician, so have no credentials to be telling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) how to run hospitals, much less physicians how t...

big business medicine/electronic medical records/Medicare "fraud"/simplistic solutions to complex problems/the sound-bite mindset

Medicare “fraud” that isn’t…

Posted on November 15, 2012 10:16 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The media is full of Medicare fraud this and Medicare fraud that, but there is little attempt to put anything in context, creating an exceedingly poisonous atmo...