Doctors, Not Financial Engineers
Costs of Care (Twitter: @CostsOfCare), where this post was originally published, is a Boston-based, non-profit organization that helps caregivers deflate medical bills and provide high value care. As...
View ArticleA Question of Worth
Costs of Care (Twitter: @CostsOfCare), where this post was originally published, is a Boston-based, non-profit organization that helps caregivers deflate medical bills and provide high value care. As...
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Knowing the Cost: A Prescription for Choosing Wisely®
Still fresh from the recent ABIM Foundation Forum, I stumbled across a striking example of the need to integrate the principles of the Choosing Wisely campaign into our daily medical practice. I...
View ArticleRecommended Reading August 20 – 24
This week’s Recommended Reading features a call for wise health care decision-making, and also celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Physician Charter: In a recent Annals of Internal Medicine...
View ArticleAre Physicians Aware of the Choosing Wisely® Campaign and Recommendations?
For Choosing Wisely to make a meaningful impact in encouraging physician and patient conversations about reducing unnecessary care, the leadership and efforts of the specialty societies partnering in...
View ArticleChoosing Wisely®: Continuing Conversations Between Physicians and Patients...
In April 2012, the ABIM Foundation, Consumer Reports and nine courageous medical specialty societies launched the Choosing Wisely®campaign by announcing lists of tests and procedures that were prone to...
View ArticleChoosing Wisely®: Let the Sunshine In
The day we launched the Choosing Wisely campaign, one year ago, we never envisioned that it would attract the attention of so many physicians across the county. Choosing Wisely has become a catalyst...
View ArticleThe High Value Care Challenge
This post was written by Cheryl O’Malley, MD, FACP, Program Director, Internal Medicine and Steven R. Brown, MD, FAAFP, Program Director, Family Medicine at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center,...
View ArticleA “Bright Idea” at the University of Pennsylvania
This post was written by Giffin Daughtridge, a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania and a winner of the 2013 Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Competition. The timing of the e-mail I...
View ArticleSOAP-V: Applying High-Value Care During Patient Care
This guest post was submitted by winners of the ABIM Foundation and Costs of Care Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Challenge. “It’s important to teach the principles of cost-conscious, high-value...
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