- 5 Hollywood Moments In The Latest U.S. Health Care Spending Numbers from Leah Binder of Leapfrog that ran in Forbes Magazine January 24, 2014
- Nearly every state flunks health care pricing transparency, report says from Market Watch March 25, 2014
- The Tyranny of Choice from The Economist December 15, 2010. -- Yes, it's been out for awhile, but it's still very relevant.
- The Hidden Surcharge Americans Pay for Hospital Errors from Leapfrog Group
- Big Ideas from the Health & Benefits Leadership Conference from Steve Boese
- Private Exchange Designs Continue to Morph from Carol Harnett -- I really didn't know anything about private exchanges until I attended this session.
- Gizmo Idolatry from JAMA -- This article is from 2008, but I hadn't heard the term until it came up at the World Health Care Congress. It's the "general implicit conviction that a more technological approach is intrinsically better than one that is less technological unless, or perhaps even if, there is strong evidence to the contrary."
- Common Knee Surgery Does Very Little for Some, Study Suggests from the NYT or go to the source and read Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy versus Sham Surgery for a Degenerative Meniscal Tear in the NEJM
- The Circle by Dave Eggers -- Nate Randall from Tesla Motors mentioned this to me first, but then I started hearing about it all over the place. Maggie McGary wrote a nice review of it.
- Cracking Health Costs: How to Cut Your Company's Health Costs and Provide Employees Better Care by Tom Emerick and Al Lewis
- Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health by Gilbert Welch
- Bitter Pill: Why Medial Bills Are Killing Us from Time Magazine -- This came out last year, but if you missed it, it's worth going back to. People are still talking about it.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Reading List from #BenefitsConf14 and #WHCC14
I added to my reading list recently as I listened to speakers and chatted with people at the Health and Benefits Leadership Conference in Las Vegas and the World Health Care Congress in DC. What do you think I missed? Please share your recommendations in the comments below.
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