A new, publicly available data file on physician group practices has been released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.

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Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020

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Artificial intelligence is now detecting cancer and robots are doing nursing tasks. But are there risks to handing over elements of our health to machines, no matter how sophisticated?

23andMe Cofounder Anne Wojcicki and Stanford Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics Stephen Quake spoke with WIRED’s Cofounder Jane Metcalfe as part of WIRED25, WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.

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Time will tell what improvements artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive algorithms can bring to healthcare, and at what cost, but it is past time to tackle the bigger ethical considerations that loom large over the future of the industry.

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Earthworms are easy … to find. But despite their prevalence and importance to ecosystems around the world, there hasn’t been a comprehensive survey of earthworm diversity or population size. This week in Science, Helen Philips, a postdoctoral fellow at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research and the Institute of Biology at Leipzig University, and colleagues published the results of their worldwide earthworm study, composed of data sets from many worm researchers around the globe. Host Sarah Crespi gets the lowdown from Philips on earthworm myths, collaborating with worm researchers, and links between worm populations and climate. Read a related commentary here.  Sarah also talks with Ziad Obermeyer, a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, about dissecting out bias in an algorithm used by health care systems in the United States to recommend patients for additional health services. With unusual access to a proprietary algorithm, inputs, and outputs, Obermeyer and his colleagues found that the low amount of health care dollars spent on black patients in the past caused the algorithm to underestimate their risk for poor health in the future. Obermeyer and Sarah discuss how this happened and remedies that are already in progress. Read a related commentary here.  Finally, in the monthly books segment, books host Kiki Sanford interviews author Alice Gorman about her book Dr. Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future. Listen to more book segments on the Science books blog: Books, et al. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quanmen; MEL Science Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Public domain; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

This primer is designed to help researchers, data scientists, and others who analyze health care claims or administrative data (herein referred to as “claims”) quickly join the effort to better understand, track, and contain COVID-19.

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Interview with Nicholas S. Reed, Au.D, author of Trends in Health Care Costs and Utilization Associated With Untreated Hearing Loss Over 10 Years

Interview with Katherine L. Possin, PhD, author of Effect of Collaborative Dementia Care via Telephone and Internet on Quality of Life, Caregiver Well-being, and Health Care Use: The Care Ecosystem Randomized Clinical Trial, and Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, FAAHPM, author of A Telephone-Based Dementia Care Management Intervention—Finding the Time to Listen

Interview with Ramin Mojtabai, MD, PhD, author of National Trends in Mental Health Care for US Adolescents

[Ottawa] : Health Canada = Santé Canada, [2020]

FMCG major Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd (PGHHCL) on Friday posted a 1.098 per cent year-on-year increase in its standalone net pr

Interview with Tara Lagu, MD, MPH, author of Putting the Public Back in Public Reporting of Health Care Quality

Interview with Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, author of What Patients Really Want From Health Care

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, author of Where Are the Health Care Cost Savings?

Interview with Dana P. Goldman, PhD, author of Out-of-Pocket Medication Costs and Use of Medications and Health Care Services Among Children With Asthma

Interview with Stephen W. Patrick, MD, MPH, MS, author of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Associated Health Care Expenditures: United States, 2000-2009

Interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs, PhD, author of Primary Health Care in Low-Income Countries: Building on Recent Achievements

Interview with Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, author of Use of Diagnostic Imaging Studies and Associated Radiation Exposure for Patients Enrolled in Large Integrated Health Care Systems, 1996-2010

Interview with Gary S. Kaplan, MD, author of Marshaling Leadership for High-Value Health Care

Interview with Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, author of Challenges at the Intersection of Team-Based and Patient-Centered Health Care: Insights From an IOM Working Group

Interview with Victor R. Fuchs, PhD, author of How and Why US Health Care Differs From That in Other OECD Countries

Interview with Joan M. Teno, MD, MS, author of Change in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Site of Death, Place of Care, and Health Care Transitions in 2000, 2005, and 2009

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, author of Reengineering US Health Care

Interview with Jon C. Tilburt, MD, MPH, author of Views of US Physicians About Controlling Health Care Costs

Interview with Hamilton Moses III, MD, author of The Anatomy of Health Care in the United States

Interview with Justin E. Bekelman, MD, author of Comparison of Site of Death, Health Care Utilization, and Hospital Expenditures for Patients Dying With Cancer in 7 Developed Countries

Interview with Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA;, author of Implementation of a Value-Driven Outcomes Program to Identify High Variability in Clinical Costs and Outcomes: Association With Reduced Cost and Improved Quality, and Michael E. Porter, PhD, author of From Volume to Value in Health Care: The Work Begins

Workplace violence–related injuries occur disproportionately in health care settings. In this podcast, we discuss how individual clinicians should manage violent patients who might attack them. Article discussed in this episode: Ensuring Staff Safety When Treating Potentially Violent Patients

Interview with Dr. Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, about his study using Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data to compare health care infrastructure, outcomes, and prices in the US and other high-income countries to identify the sources of spending that make US health care so expensive.

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., author of Next Phase in Effective Cost Control in Health Care

Interview with Anna D. Sinaiko, Ph. D., author of What Is the Value of Market-Wide Health Care Price Transparency?

Interview with S Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD, author of The Risk and Cost of Limited Clinician and Patient Accountability in Health Care

Interview with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, author of Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings

Interview with Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD, author of Addressing Bias in Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

The US spends more on health care as a proportion of its GDP than any other nation. Will the COVID-19 pandemic reduce or accelerate that spending? Sherry Glied, PhD, Dean and Professor of Public Service at New York University, explains. Recorded Monday, April 27, 2020.

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The Potential Effects of Coronavirus on National Health Expenditures

Don Berwick, MD, MPP, of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses choices societies and the medical profession can make to improve health care and reduce inequities as we move out of the acute phase of the coronavirus pandemic.