For years, Harvard Pilgrim has supported a teaching and research department jointly with the Harvard Medical School AT the Harvard Medical School called the Department of Ambulatory Care & Prevention.  The faculty and researchers at DACP do some very interesting work - especially in the field of health care services research (how do we apply […]

I’ve written before about the limits and opportunities of health information technology.  HIT, as it’s more commonly known, is just that - health information technology.  It can be an important and useful tool.  But it is the user of that technology - the clinician, the pharmacist, the administrator, the analyst - who ultimately determines its value.  If the […]

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When Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks, people listen. As a result, I’ve had many people send me the op-ed he recently published in the Wall Street Journal on the state of health care.

His commentary basically said three things.

First, advances in medicine are amazing, and the system can do more today than at […]