21 de gener 2017

Understanding group decision making failure and success

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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter Groupthink was a term coined by Irving James that explains how groups may tend t...
20 de gener 2017

Stimulating ideas for drug development and pricing

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New Health Technologies. Managing Access, Value and Sustainability This new OECD report sheds light over several issues in an heterogeneou...
13 de gener 2017

The size of waste in health expenditure and what to do about it

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Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health OECD is preparing the annual meeting for next Tuesday, and this week has released a report on what to...
12 de gener 2017

A review of 30 years of UK Health Policy

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The Politics of Health Policy Reform in the UK: England’s Permanent Revolution Three decades of health policy in UK explained in one book ...
08 de gener 2017

Revisiting efficiency measurement

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Health system efficiency: How to make measurement matter for policy and management A new book by WHO Euro has been published about effici...
31 de desembre 2016

The Voltaire of health economics

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MAYNARD MATTERS Critical Thinking on Health Policy For any health economist, Alan Maynard is a reference. We've been reading his cont...
25 de desembre 2016

The two friends story

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THE TWO FRIENDS WHO CHANGED HOW WE THINK ABOUT HOW WE THINK Sunstein and Thaler provide an excellent review of a unique book by MichaelLew...
22 de desembre 2016

Healthy lifespans are improving, do we know why?

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Understanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy In the U.S. Elderly Population If you want to know the reason behind the ...
20 de desembre 2016

Simplistic arguments on healthcare cost growth

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Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care After all these years of great recession, there is an argument that should be revi...
19 de desembre 2016

Why organizations are such a mess?

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Many years ago I attended to a PhD course on Organizational Economics by Robbert Gibbons , from MIT. I still remember the title of one of h...
18 de desembre 2016

The farce of confidential drug prices

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We are approaching the end of cost-effectiveness as we have known. If you can't use the price of the drug because it is confidential, th...
17 de desembre 2016

In Memoriam of Thomas Schelling

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Thomas Schelling: Game Theory, Cold War, Coordination, Leadership, Tipping, Focal point... Eleven years ago, Thomas Schelling was awarded ...
16 de desembre 2016

In search for the right approach to risk adjustment

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Comparison of the Properties of Regression and Categorical Risk-Adjustment Models Measuring risk-adjustment is crucial for avoiding risk s...
10 de desembre 2016

Hiding money in a neo-feudal world of concentrated wealth

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The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money There is a fight between State and wealthy people, and...