Category: Forbes

`Suspicious’ Opioid Shipments? 5% to 86%, Depending On How You Count Them

Forced to identify opioid prescriptions they say were “suspicious” and never should have been shipped, Ohio cities and counties came up with a rough estimate. Very rough.

Measures of Physician Quality Don’t Measure Up

Physician reimbursement increasingly depends on healthcare quality measures, but a study by the American College of Physicians suggests quality measures themselves are falling short. Their results strongly suggest the use of quality measures has gotten…

Trying To Recruit Programmers? Here’s What They Really Want

Value them, challenge them, and set them free.

Why Are Doctors Giving Caffeine To Premature Babies?

What if your first encounter with caffeine wasn’t when you were a few years old, but when you were a few hours old? Researchers suggest that this helps premature babies.

These Are The Gadgets Tech Experts Are Hoping For This Holiday Season

These are the tech gifts the experts themselves are hoping to receive.

Value-Based Pricing And Reimbursement: Still More Promise Than Reality

There’s been an uptick in value- or outcomes-based contracts. Yet, operational barriers persist, including achieving consensus on what constitutes value, the need for extensive outcomes data collection, and the administrative costs of managing value-ba…

How To Decide What Medicine To Take When You’re Sick

When all bets are off from preventing that winter cold, there are medications out there to relieve your symptoms. Each of these work on different symptoms, so read the labels before you pop those pills, spray that spray, or down that liquid.

Warning: The Sex Drug Revolution May Have Side Effects

Online prescriptions for sex-related drugs are growing rapidly. But some entrepreneurs wonder if consumers are getting screwed.

Three Predictions For 2019, Including A Real Life “Iron Man”

From bitcoin dominance to scaring the bejeezus out of global bond lords, some predictions for 2019 by A.T. Kearney.

These Are The UK’s Top University Breakthroughs

UK Universities have and are making big differences to the world, here are the biggest innovations to date.