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Can Health Information Technology Bend the Cost Curve?

By: Brad Atkinson

Most if not all of us working in the health domain appreciate the need to transform the U.S. health sector. The strategic dialogue is often framed around “bending the curve” of total health care costs. In other words, changing the behavioral demand and market cost structures of U.S. health care to improve health status and dramatically reduce the cost of care per capita per year in this country. Recently, this dialogue has turned to the role of health care information technology (HIT) in generating this transformation through the Office of ...

World AIDS Day: A Time to Take Stock of Our Health

By: Jesse Milan

World AIDS Day has changed dramatically in the two decades since it began. When gay men in the U.S. first commemorated World AIDS Day, they did so by mourning thousands of loved ones lost to a deadly virus. Since then, highly effective HIV treatments have transformed HIV from a death sentence to a serious disease in wealthy countries like ours, and now World AIDS Day seems focused mainly on reminding the straight community about the global devastation of the disease. But the truth is that HIV is still a crisis for ...