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Why Public Health
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
DrScore CEO Interviewed by Medical Author Chat
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Listen to a podcast interview with DrScore CEO, Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD, at Medical Author Chat, in which Feldman discusses his recent book, Compartments.
DrScore CEO Interviewed by PatientsLikeMe Blog
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
DrScore CEO Steven Feldman, MD, PhD, was recently interviewed by the patientslikeme blog about patient satisfaction, psoriasis and adherence. Read the full interview.
Research from DrScore Hottest Article from Health Outcomes Research in Medicine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged academic research, health outcomes, patient satisfaction, research on January 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Health Outcomes Research in Medicine, a leading medical journal that focuses on patient care and treatment efficacy, just listed the 25 most downloaded articles from their website, http://www.healthoutcomesresearch.org, and DrScore’s research on patient satisfaction in outpatient populations is currently the top article. The article uses DrScore’s deep database of patient satisfaction data to examine patient satisfaction with outpatient care in the United States. Co-written by DrScore CEO Steve Feldman, MD, PhD, and DrScore research head, Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, the article was published by Health Outcomes Research in Medicine in 2011. Read the article online.
What Can We Say about Doctors Who Have One Low Score?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged doctor, doctor reviews, DrScore on January 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
When we look at doctors who have a lot of ratings, it isn’t unusual to see lots of high ratings and an occasional low rating. The average score of these doctors is very high. But if you took a whole lot of doctors like that and they only had one rating each, the average would still be the same, but there would be a lot of doctors with one 10 and a few with one zero. The score of those doctors who have just one low rating obviously isn’t representative of their practice. What could be done about this? Well the answer suggested by some people is not to show ratings when there are few or to get rid of doctor ratings online altogether. We think that people are smart enough to interpret the scores if they are told how many ratings there are. When doctors have just one low score, rather than throwing it out or hiding it, we encourage them to ask a few patients to put ratings in. That way, a more representative score is there for people to see. Moreover, we should always keep in mind that the detailed feedback that comes with a low score can be a gift to the doctor, giving the doctor valuable feedback on the concerns of one of their very few unhappy patients, hopefully the kind of feedback that will help the doctor not have unhappy patients in the future.
Happy New Year
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year. Time for new year’s resolutions. Let’s resolve to do our part to make American medical care the best it can be. You can help today by giving your doctor the feedback he or she needs to do what they most want, to give their patients great medical care. Go to www.DrScore.com today and complete a brief survey on your experience with your doctor.
The down economy is affecting health care budgets
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bob Keaveney, budget crisis, health care cost, organ transplants, physician practice on June 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
States across the country are facing budget crises. With health care spending being such a large part of state budgets, cuts to health care expenditures are surely coming. Arizona has proposed a number of measures to cut costs. One is a fee charged to Medicaid-enrollees who engage in unhealthy activity. Another is to cut payments for organ transplantation. In Physician Practice magazine, editor Bob Keaveney decried the cuts.
Keaveney makes good points about how so called “death panels” in the health care legislation were bogus but that real death panels are happening when states decide not to cover organ transplants. But can we continue to pay for everything? Probably not. At some point, we have to recognize that paying for those transplants comes at the cost of not paying for other things we’d like to have. The people who have to make these choices are not in an enviable position.