New Orleans A fascinating story ran in the New York Times by Kirk Johnson about “community paramedics” being used in Colorado along with earlier experiments among homeless populations in San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. There was nothing about the program that involved rocket science, but in cutting back on emergency 911 calls costing …
Tag: Health Care
Impacting Healthcare: Organizing Medical “Hotspots”
Toronto Dr. Atul Gawande writing in the current issue of The New Yorker (1/24/11) interjects himself once again into the national (global?) health care debate by pointing out that hard data often reveals, as it did in Camden, New Jersey, that as much as 30% of health care costs are generated by as few as …
Gold Hidden in Dodd-Frank
New Orleans Wow! A seasonal surprise!! It turns out that there were a couple of pieces of gold hidden in the hills and valleys of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act that I had overlooked and that have international impact. Retailers are required to report annually on the origin of minerals used in products from war-torn …