Last week, we looked some recent recommendations to control costs in the U.S. health care system—Would This List Bend The Cost Curve?. The recommendations ranged from eliminating fee-for-service (FFS) payments; to reducing emergency room use and reduce readmissions; to empower consumers; to standardizing performance metrics; to meaningfully addressing trauma; to allowing the government to use cost and cost-effectiveness in decisionmaking. [caption id="attachment_804063" align="alignright" width="150"] Jim Gargiulo[/caption] After this was published, I got an interesting response from my colleague and OPEN MINDS Senior Associate Jim Gargiulo, who wrote: Technology vendors in health care should view the challenges of consumer empowerment, the…
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