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Issue Date: March 2003

Strategies Aim to Reduce Harm to Patients
This article discusses the collaborative efforts of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Premier Inc. to reduce medical errors. This article focuses on efforts adverse events related to medications.

IOM Outlines Priorities for Improving the Health System
This editorial discusses a report from the Institute of Medicine that identifies 20 areas in the health care system that need improvement. Implementing the report's recommendations, the editorial argues, will require sweeping reform, consolidation,and rethinking by many in the health care system.

Author Faults Process Complexity
This article discusses the views of author and medical economist J.D. Kleinke. It focuses on his books The Bleeding Edge, and Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health System, as well as the evolution of his thinking about managed care between the publication of the two books.

Medicare Quality Improves, Says CMS
This article discusses the results of a study by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that show improvements in several areas related to inpatient and outpatient care. However, the report also points out that the gap between care delivered and the care that could be delivered remains wide.

Physicians Can Help Employers Boost Productivity, Says Expert
In this interview, Sean Sullivan, co-founder, president, and CEO of the Institute for Health and Productivity Management, discusses his organization and its efforts "to make the case that employees' health is not a business expense, but rather an investment in their performance."

Crisis Leads Physicians to Drop Insurance
This article discusses the repercussions of the increasing costs of malpractice insurance on physicians, including the decision by some doctors to "go bare."

Advice for Physician-Owned Practices
This editorial discusses the business of medicine, citing experts who contend that physicians need "to develop new, more efficient business models in order to overcome the business pressures that are hindering their success."

Physicians Find Ways to Comply
This article discusses the importance of complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), suggesting actions physicians can take to comply with the act as well as the penalties they face if they fail to do so.

EMRs Help Keep Patients Moving
This article discusses how a solo practitioner used an electronic medical records system to help keep his practice on track while he was temporarily short-staffed.

Primary Depression Care Cuts Costs
This article discusses how screening patients for depression, especially by primary care physicians, can help to improve the quality of care and of life for patients suffering from the disorder, as well as reduce costs.