The financial crash of 2008 never really ended

 The Lords of Easy Money. How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

Ten years on, the gap between the rich and poor has grown dramatically, stock prices are trading far above what’s justified by actual corporate profits, corporate debt in America is at an all-time high, and this debt is being traded by big banks on Wall Street, leaving them vulnerable—just as they were during the mortgage boom. Middle-class wages have barely budged in a decade, and consumers are buried under credit card debt, car loan debt, and student debt.

Finding network effects desperately

 The Cold Start Problem. How to start and scale network effects.

Precision medicine (2)

Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being

Introduction The Power of Precision Health 1

Chapter 1 The State of U.S. Health and Health Care Delivery 15

Chapter 2 There’s More to “Health” Than Health Care 33

Chapter 3 The Innovation and Disruption Powering Progress in Health 43

Chapter 4 Fundamental, Discovery‐Focused Research: The Foundation of Biomedical Breakthroughs 111

Chapter 5 Peering into the Future: Leveraging The Powers of Prediction to Help Prevent Illness 147

Chapter 6 Prevention as a Pathway to Health and Wellness 177

Chapter 7 Curing Disease with More Precise Medical Therapies 207

Conclusion Achieving Precision Health: The Opportunities—and Challenges—Ahead 237

Paying for healthcare

Better Ways to Pay for Health Care

Public health budget evolution

 Last September I posted the data on per capita health expenditure. In 2020 we spent 1786€ per capita. The total budget for 2021 was 13.162m€, 1700€ per capita. Now the budget for 2022 says that we are going to spend 1.446€. This is an absolute nonsense. The budget approval has no relationship with former incurred expenditures...

Somebody should explain it clearly to the population and take measures. Forget this figure, it has no relationship with reality.

Bundled payments update (2)

 Year 1 of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement–Advanced Model

A NEJM article shows a negligible effect of bundled payments. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any comment about the flaws in the design. A design mistake for not taking into account a holistic view.

If you reduce 78$ out of 27,315 $ per episode, this is an absolute FAILURE! (it is not a small reduction!!!)

However, the conclusion is:

In this study, we found that the BPCI-A program was associated with small reductions in Medicare payments among participating hospitals. Longer-term evaluation is needed to determine the full effect of the program.

Jean Pierre Capron

 

 

Integrated care and population health (2)

 Handbook Integrated Care

Opioid epidemic as a crime (3)

 Unsettled. How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis

Medtech regulatory affairs

 Medical Regulatory Affairs. An International Handbook for Medical Devices and Healthcare Products

Platforms, a business model (7)

 Platform Business Models. Frameworks, Concepts and Design

Platforms, a business model (6)

 The Platform Paradox. How Digital Businesses Succeed in an Ever-Changing Global Marketplace

The knowledge economy

 The Knowledge Economy

Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. In every part of the production system it remains a fringe excluding the vast majority of workers and businesses. This book explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures.

The long and bumpy road to CRISPR (3)

 Cut-and-Paste Genetics. A CRISPR Revolution

Behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. Coronavirus crisis

 Preventable. The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response