Why doctors still don’t text or email their patients

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/11/09-outdated-doctor-patient-communication-yaraghi

Doctor Stephane Mercier, Head of the palliative care unit at Paul-Brousse Hospital, attends an interview with Reuters in his office at the hospital in Villejuif near Paris March 4, 2015. France's parliament will on Tuesday debate a bill allowing patients near the end of their lives to stop treatment and enter a "deep sleep" until they die, a move that critics say amounts to euthanasia in disguise. If passed, the legislation would give dying patients in the secular but majority Catholic country more power over their own treatment. Jean Leonetti, a centre-right lawmaker and doctor who authored the law, told Reuters the bill would allow patients with "hours or days to live" to request to be placed under general anaesthetic right through to the moment they die.

Moral Failure And Health Costs: Two Simplistic Spending Narratives

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/10/27/moral-failure-and-health-costs-two-simplistic-spending-narratives/

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Value-based care: Will the industry ever be ready to ditch fee-for-service?

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/value-based-care-will-industry-ever-be-ready-ditch-fee-service/2015-10-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

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Shift from fee-for-service to value-based models slower than expected

http://www.fiercehealthfinance.com/story/shift-fee-service-value-based-models-slower-expected/2015-09-30

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PwC’s Health Research Institute reports finds challenges remain for hospitals, systems but shift is inevitable

Breaking The Fee-For-Service Addiction: Let’s Move To A Comprehensive Primary Care Payment Model

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/08/17/breaking-the-fee-for-service-addiction-lets-move-to-a-comprehensive-primary-care-payment-model/

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Fee-for-service vs. value-based care: 6 points of debate raised by health policy experts

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/fee-for-service-vs-value-based-care-6-points-of-debate-raised-by-health-policy-experts.html

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Survey: Over 90% of physicians, admins still in traditional FFS practices

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/survey-over-90-of-physicians-admins-still-in-traditional-ffs-practices/391390/

Can physician-led ACOs keep physicians independent?

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/can-physician-led-acos-keep-physicians-independent/365653/