A neighbor of mine is undergoing her third round of chemotherapy this week. As we head into the end of the year, she was relieved that she had already passed […]

Gestalt is defined as: “Something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts.”  Long ago, I remember attempting […]

I look at my 14-year-old boy every day and think how much I love this guy. His quirks and all! He’s come a long way. He was first diagnosed with […]

Population health is central for health care providers and payers striving to improve quality of care and lower costs. Population health is defined as “the health outcomes of a group […]

This is the question behind a publication from Dr. Will Bleser and colleagues at the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy. Anyone doing or contemplating work similar to this has […]

Bringing your car to a mechanic is a lot like going to the doctor. Auto mechanics and doctors both work within a predominantly fee-for-service system where information asymmetry prevails. Information […]

Physicians go through a lot of training: pre-med, medical school, internship, residence and some go on to further specialization in fellowships. It used to be that a physician would finish […]

How can we reduce health care cost trends while improving access and quality? The answer is staring us in the face. Maybe we need a new app that tracks every […]

Shortly after moving back to Minnesota three years ago, I went to get my annual physical as I always do. As a relatively healthy 30-year-old, I didn’t have any real […]

Have you ever heard someone say, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?” It was Benjamin Franklin who coined this phrase in 1736 to remind the citizens […]

The body and its reaction to disease and infection is still very much a mystery. Sometimes we have signs and symptoms that lead us down a rabbit hole only to […]

This year, much attention is appropriately being focused on improving health equity—both in access and quality of care provided. True equity in care means that we should not see wide […]