Best care anywhere
Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours
by Phillip Longman · first published 2007
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The long-maligned Veterans Health Administration has become the highest-quality healthcare provider in the United States. This encouraging change not only has benefited veterans but also provides a blueprint for salvaging America's own deeply troubled healthcare system. Best Care Anywhere shows how a government bureaucracy, working with little notice, is setting the standard for best practices and cost reduction while the private sector is lagging in both areas. Author Phillip Longman challenges conventional wisdom by explaining exactly how market forces work to lower quality and raise prices
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A great little book that covers some of the history involved is Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Healthcare Is Better Than Yours by Phillip Longman. The VistA system used by the VA was developed in bottom-up fashion by doctors and interns, who snuck minicomputers into the hospitals in defiance…
on “Learn the M programming language, and teach it to others.” ↗…office staff. They swipe your card, your medical records pop up on screen, and whatever they do they're guaranteed to get paid in a week, no questions asked. (On the other hand, another good book is Best Care Anywhere, which advocates extending the V.A. model to everyone. A nice bit from that book is the VistA medical records system, which V.A. doctors and interns built and opensourced. It's been adopted by several…
on “What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013” ↗I can't find a link right now, but a month or two ago there was an interview on NPR with the author of (I believe) this book: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Care-Anywhere-Health-Better/dp/09... In the interview he talked about how some doctors at the VA hacked together a computerized medical records system in the 70s, and how having these computerized records actually…
on “Harvard study: Computers don't save hospitals money” ↗…made a system that fit their needs quite well at the time, so they deserve quite a bit of credit, even though their source code is a nightmare by modern standards. Their story is recounted in the book Best Care Anywhere. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073HW03I/
on “Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]” ↗