By Christopher Robertson Over at our sister blog for the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Gregg Fields has an insightful discussion of the way Obamacare has relied on private sector contractors to get its enrollment website up and running. Gregg quotes Safra-affiliate Bill English, who explains the allure of public-private partnerships: they “enable…
By Michael Young The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) projects that by 2025 the United States will face a shortage of 130,600 physicians, representing a near 18-fold increase from the deficit of 7,400 physicians in 2008. The widening gap between physician supply and demand has grown out of a complex interplay of legal, political,…
This post is part of Bill of Health’s symposium on the Law, Ethics, and Science of Re-Identification Demonstrations. Background on the symposium is here. You can call up all of the symposium contributions by clicking here. —MM By Daniel C. Barth-Jones In Part 1 and Part 2 of this symposium contribution I wrote about a number of…
By Michelle Meyer This post is part of Bill of Health‘s symposium on the Law, Ethics, and Science of Re-Identification Demonstrations. Background on the symposium is here. You can call up all of the symposium contributions by clicking here. —MM Daniel C. Barth-Jones, M.P.H., Ph.D., is a HIV and infectious disease epidemiologist. His work in…
By Nicholson Price For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, there’s a great ongoing online forum over at the joint Harvard Business Review and New England Journal of Medicine Insight Center on Leading Health Care Innovation. It’s online at HBR here, and will feature an ongoing series of posts about innovation in high-value…
By Leslie Francis Cross-posted from the HealthLawProfs blog. Challenges designed to spur innovative uses of data are springing up frequently. These are contests, sponsored by a mix of government agencies, industry, foundations, a variety of not-for-profit groups, or even individuals. They offer prize money or other incentives for people or teams to come up with…
By Ryan Abbott While awaiting the torrent of academic commentary on this case that is no doubt forthcoming, for now I thought I’d highlight a few interesting aspects of today’s unanimous Supreme Court decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 U. S. ____ (2013). Briefly, this case concerned whether genes can be patented.…
By Michelle Meyer This post is part of Bill of Health‘s symposium on the Law, Ethics, and Science and Re-Identification Demonstrations. We’ll have more contributions throughout the week. Background on the symposium is here. You can call up all of the symposium contributions by clicking here. —MM Daniel C. Barth-Jones, M.P.H., Ph.D., is a HIV…
By Michelle Meyer This post is part of Bill of Health‘s symposium on the Law, Ethics, and Science of Re-Identification Demonstrations. You can call up all of the symposium contributions here. We’ll continue to post contributions throughout the week. —MM Dear Misha: In your open letter to me, you write: No one is asking you…
By Michelle Meyer This post is part of Bill of Health‘s symposium on the Law, Ethics, and Science of Re-Identification Demonstrations. You can call up all of the symposium contributions here. We’ll continue to post contributions into next week. —MM Arvind Narayanan (Ph.D. 2009) is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He studies…
