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Healthcare Data Collaboration

Times of stress and crises heighten the senses, clear travel calendars, and renew our focus. For those on the business side of healthcare working on benefits purchasing, data, or analytics, this is a great moment to collaborate, to share and seek out data sets to help your clients and business. The clouds of the internet are flexing their muscles. I've set up sharing for public and private data sets via Google BigQuery. Some examples are tables on hospital quality, procedure codes, inpatient/ou ...

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A Tale of $2,000

Whether Einstein said it or not, compound interest is amazing: “...the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it, he who doesn't, pays it.” Negative compounding is powerful too, and we pay it in the form of healthcare inflation.Over the last 10 years, annual healthcare inflation for workers has averaged 5%calculated as the yearly change in premiums and deductibles from 2008 to 2018, or more than double CPI. 1/3 of that 5% is general inflation, the rest: admin, regulations, wages ...