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Exploring the science, practice, and business of medicine.
Exploring the science, practice, and business of medicine.
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MedEdPearls November 2020: Mentoring, coaching, and sponsoring are often used interchangeably, lacking clear role definitions. This pearl explores the role of coaching in medical education.
Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, discusses using creative thinking to devise natural experiments that can help guide health care and spending.
Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and decision scientist at MGH Institute for Technology Assessment, discusses the challenges of building an interactive COVID-19 modeling tool and its real-world impact.
Health Care Business Imperative: Functioning at an Increasingly Complicated Intersection with the Patient at the Center of Care
David Y. Ting, chief medical information officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization in Boston and co-director of the MGH Center for Innovation in Digital HealthCare, discusses technologies aimed at easing administrative burden and provider burnout.
Leemore S. Dafny, PhD, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, discusses provider consolidation, the CVS-Aetna merger, and the potential impact of Big Tech on health care consolidation.
Zirui Song, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses workplace wellness programs.
Mara Bloom, JD, MS, the executive director of Mass General Cancer Center, discusses the future of cancer care delivery, grappling with cost, and access to clinical trials.
Michael Chernew, director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School, discusses intersections between approaches to slowing health care spending and real-world experience.
Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, director of the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children's Hospital, discusses opportunities, limits, and hurdles for health care data apps.