I was recently in Palm Beach and had occasion to drive my rental car to one of the local restaurants. It was “valet only” parking. As I stepped out of the car, I asked the valet for the ticket, and he said, “No need. It is the only Chevy in the lot.”
After [...]

“…cooperation between species can be evolved in the laboratory if (1) there is preexisting reciprocation or feedback for cooperation, and (2) reciprocation is preferentially received by cooperative genotypes. [...] Growth in a spatially structured environment assured that the benefits of cooperation were preferentially received by cooperative genotypes. [...] cooperation disappeared if the waste consumption or [...]

I was asked to give the keynote address today at a senior leadership retreat for Sutter Health’s Sacramento Sierra Region. Sutter is a community based, not for profit health system.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has teamed up with Sutter to explore means and methods to transform this multi-centered health care system to the [...]

I just got word that Ray Tye, one of the most generous people I have ever met, has died. He was generous in the way Maimonides would have liked: He gave without fanfare and with no wish for recognition.
Every now and then, he would hear of a patient, either local or international, who [...]

I admire the President and really hope a health care bill is passed by Congress, but I wonder if his overstatement of what the bill does might ultimately cause him to fail. Here’s the latest, as reported in today’s New York Times:
Boiling down his proposal to a few sentences, Mr. Obama asked, “How many [...]

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The Rx-360 Consortium announced the start of a pilot plan to allow pharmaceutical manufacturers to share audits of suppliers. The first part of the pilot is intended to gauge the value of sharing the existing body of supplier audit information that already exists within consortium member companies.  The consortium has an Audit Standards Working Group with 27 [...]

What happens next in Massachusetts with insurance reimbursement rates now that many of the facts and figures have been made public?
Here’s what I see. The dominant parties in the state on whose watch the disparities in the marketplace have taken place — Blue Cross Blue Shield and Partners Healthcare System — face financial and [...]

US Senator John Kerry joined a BIDMC event last night in Florida to provide an update to members of our community on recent events in Washington regarding the progress of a national health care bill. We were impressed with the extent of the Senator’s knowledge on the subject and his commitment to thoughtful legislation, [...]

Several months ago, I wrote about the futility of banning social media in a hospital. I argued that it was counterproductive and a waste of resources. This point of view has been supported in other forums.
Now, I learn that the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics organization is banning Facebook and other such [...]

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I was originally disappointed when I first scanned this Medical News Today article, Resveratrol May Replace Aspirin As Heart Protector; Longevinex® First Branded Resveratrol Pill Successfully Tested During Heart Attack.
As a red wine lover, my disappointment turned to joy when I read this:
The amount of resveratrol in 3 to 5 glasses of red [...]