Category Archives: Medical System Comparision

NYT Blog on Outcome Measurement in Health Care

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

The New York Times Economix blog has an interesting post on outcome measurement. The writer rebuts the skepticism among readers about the viability of quality measurement — including an aside about the justice area: These readers appear to harbor genuine … Continue reading →

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Two Perspectives on Standardization and Efficiency, and a Suggested Synthesis

Posted on August 24, 2012 by

A recent New Yorker article talks about possible lessons for the health care system from the highly efficient production and management system of middle range chain restaurants like Cheesecake Factory. To show me how a Cheesecake Factory works, [the host] … Continue reading →

Posted in Medical System Comparision, Systematic Change, Technology | 2 Comments

Teaching Doctors Empahty — Some Lessons and Questions for the Legal System

Posted on June 23, 2012 by

The Economix blog in the New York Times has a great post on new research that shows that doctors can be taught empathy. In the experiment: Dr. Helen Riess, director of the Empathy and Relational Science Program in the department … Continue reading →

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Wonderful Medical Education Innovation Idea — Challenge to Legal Education

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

The New York Times has a great article on a curriculum experiment at Harvard Med.  In an attempt to break through the dehumanizing impact of the traditional third year of medical school, Harvard has tried assigning students to individual patients … Continue reading →

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Claudia Johnson blogs on “Legal Services Policy Research and the Elephant in the Room”

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

In reading this blog and the American Bar Foundation in Access to Justice, recent report, and other literature, including health policy analysis, I think that as we call for more research about legal services, we need to be clear about … Continue reading →

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Ten-fold Increase in Usage of Retail Health Clinics in Two Years — Implications for Legal Delivery

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Is this the future of legal  help too?  A tenfold increase in visits to retail store based health clinics in just two years, as reported by the Washington Post, based on a recent RAND study.  The data is based on … Continue reading →

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A Revolutionary Idea — Calculating Legal Aid Grants Based on Customer Satisfaction

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

The NY Times has a fascinating article about how Medicare reimbursement for hospitals is going to be in part calculated on patient satisfaction.  As explained in this government factsheet, this is part of a broader initiative to incentivize a range … Continue reading →

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Language Services — Medical Model — Example and General Approach

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

While the legal system seems to be having difficulty moving forward with language access, here is a nice Oakland Tribune article that talks about creative use of video technology to ensure translation in a hospital. The medical center uses video … Continue reading →

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Might This be an Opportunity to Get Legal Information into Health Centers?

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

HHS Announces: HHS and The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology introduce new Investing in Innovations (i2) Initiative Could we use this initiative as a way to get medical legal information into public health clinics, hospital waiting … Continue reading →

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Study of Broad Benefits of Health Insurance for Poor

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

Thursday’s NYT has a very important article on the broad benefits of Medicaid for the poor. What happened was this.  Oregon had some spare Medicaid money, but it was only enough for 10,000 people.  So they allocated the slots at … Continue reading →

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We Are Visitors in Litigants’ Lives — More on Medical Analagies

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

I have to share an extract from Dr. Bach’s final NYT article about his wife’s cancer.  His reflections about how the experience of him and his wife, Ruth, with their cancer has changed his own behavior should challenge all of … Continue reading →

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Reflective Response on Thinking About Client’s Feelings — Suggestions for Progrms and Funders to Address Issues

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

I am posting a response (with permission to do so without attribution) to the recent blog about thinking about litigants’ emotions. Thanks for raising this. I think that a lot of a lawyer’s inability to deal with emotions starts in … Continue reading →

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Beautiful NYT article by Doctor on Thinking About Patient Experience — Lessons for Lawyers, Court Staff and Judges

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

Peter Bach, MD, in the NYT today, writes about how, as a cancer doctor married to a woman who gets breast cancer, he sits next to her as her doctor does just what he has done so many times before, … Continue reading →

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Impact on Outcomes of Participation by Interns/Residents in Surgery — Thinking About Students in Access Services

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Fascinating NYT piece about research into whether having doctors in training — interns or residents — participate in surgery impacts outcomes.  This is a big study and the results paint just the kind of complicated picture that gets you thinking. … Continue reading →

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