Showing posts with label decision making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decision making. Show all posts

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Health Care Exchanges Challenge Human Decision Making Shortcoming

Are Our Brains Just Not Wired For Obamacare?  by Dhruv Khullar.  Politico.  November 26, 2013.

(1)  The selection of health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges or marketplaces requires many choices by citizens.  Humans have difficulty making optimal decisions under conditions of ______________.

(2)  People have difficulty weighing probabilities  of long-term ________________________ and in analyzing complex products with multiple _________________________.

(3)  They have difficulty in estimating the likelihood of _______________________.

(4)  "Choice overload" refers to making suboptimal decisions as the result of _____________.

(5)  What is an example of a heuristic in the Obamacare exchanges?

(6)  Why are the "navigators" important in Obamacare?

(7)  The results of Massachusetts shows that consumers prefer a manageable __________________
which differ _____________________.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Making Bad Decisions: Medical And Otherwise

Why We Make Bad Decisions by Noreena Hertz.  Opinion.  The New York Times.  October 19, 2013.

(1)  Studies have shown that __________________ patients are misdiagnosed.

(2)  An estimated __________ hospital deaths each could have been prevented with the proper disease diagnosis.

(3)  A study at Emory University showed that when confronted with the expert, the independent decision-making parts of many subjects brains ________________________.

(4)  It is crucial not only to ask questions of experts  but also ____________.

(5)  How does optimism distort decision-making?

(6)  We need to push ourselves to hear ________  as well as the __________.

(7)  The author learned in his research that the super-confident ________________ did not always perform well.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Money Worries Lowers IQ, Strains General Cognitive Ability, Opens Door For Bad Decision-Making

Poverty Strains Cognitive Ability, Opening Door For Bad Decision-Making, New Study Finds by Brady Dennis.  Health & Science Blog.  The Washington Post.  August 30, 2013.

(1)  People struggling to make ends meet consume so much ____________ that they have little brainpower for anything else.

(2)  People wrestling with the mental strain of poverty suffered a drop of as much as ____________ in IQ.

(3)  When the poor experience a scarcity of money they may really be experiencing a scarcity of ________________.

(4)  What is meant by the term "cognitive tax?"

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Shared Medical Decision-making A Focus of Obamacare

ACA Boosts 'Shared Decision-Making" by Joanne Kenen.  Politico.  November 29, 2012.

Under ACA three multimillion-dollar grants seek to test and expand shared decision-making models.  Under this approach patients are given tools to help them make decisions along with their doctors.  The aim is to overcome patient lack of understanding of statistical risk and adaptation to treatments as well as doctor conscious or unconscious bias.  This move toward shared decision-making is hoped to address health care expense and vast differences in treatment patterns across the nation.  For example, patients in one ZIP code may be 20 times more likely to receive a medical procedure than patients in another ZIP code.  To implement shared decision-making substantial changes in physician training may be required.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Wired Health Conference: Living By Numbers

Wired Health Conference:  Living by Numbers.  Wired Magazine in Partnership with Robert Wood. Johnson Foundation.  October 15-16.

This is a conference that can be viewed online when you enter your email address.  The conference will focus on opportunities to bring data into real-time decision-making for doctors, researchers, hospitals, and individuals.  It will span the gap between healthcare and technology connecting pioneering researchers with entrepreneurs.