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Musings about the goings-on in American health care from a general health care consultant. Topics can include policy, health insurers, technology and eHealth, physicians, pharma and anything else that grips my fancy.
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By Brian Klepper These are, as the Chinese curse reputedly called them, interesting times. If the burst of new Democratic health care reform proposals is any indication, a fresh breeze...
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Moody's, the credit rating agency, offers their post-election impressions in their special comment, "U.S. Healthcare Industry: Credit Implications of the U.S.
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By BOB WACHTER Hospitals aren’t the first businesses hurt when the economy sours, but they get hurt nonetheless, as an article in last week’s NY Times points out. But hospitalists have...
By Bob Laszewski Max Baucus will be a key player in the health care debate the next two years. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee he has jurisdiction on many of the key issues...
By Maggie Mahar & Niko Karvounis By now you know that Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) has offered a “Call to Arms” for health care reform by way of a 98-page policy document. There is much...
By Sarah Arnquist Two weeks ago, I made an emergency trip home to Minnesota because my grandmother fell ill. She went to the emergency room on a Sunday night, complaining of fatigue...
By Neil Versel Medical informatics needs a rock star. Not a David Brailer-esque figure who could excite people in the technology sphere, but perhaps a Don Berwick type who can reach...
By Matthew Holt I don't often use THCB for direct political protests. I don't care what the obscure cult known as The Church of Jesus and the Latter Day Saints does in the privacy of...
By PAUL LEVY I just saw clear evidence of the importance of transparency with regard to the reporting of important adverse events and medical errors. Bear with me through the details,...
By Christine Gray After monitoring e-patients.net and The Health Care Blog, I have to ask: Do doctors read? And if so, what? I know four things from my own experience (and watching
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn A very smart doctor told me, "there's been a realization that the exam room is wherever the patient is." That simple, elegant and insightful remark was offered...
By Sarah Arnquist Cleveland Clinic launched its pilot partnership with Microsoft HealthVault to provide personal health records for 150,000 patients. CMS selected four companies to
By John Halamka I was recently asked to predict IT Winners and Losers in 2009. Rather than name individual companies, I'd like to highlight categories. Winners 1. Electronic Health
By Scott Shreeve I am deeply honored and profoundly grateful to be recognized, along with my brother Steve Shreeve, as the 2008 winner of the Linux Medical News Freedom Award. While...
Check it out over at Colorado Health Insurance Insider. Thanks to Louise for compiling!
By Sarah Arnquist Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus' unveiling of a health reform proposal yesterday fed speculation about the possibility of Democrats tackling health reform...
By David Kibbe Starting this month and continuing for the next year or so, I'll be presenting a standard talk to physician audiences entitled "Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion,"...
By Sarah Arnquist The Wall Street Journal reports that the Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont) will unveil today his plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system.
amp;lt;a href=amp;quot;http://www.buzzdash.com/index.php?page=buzzbiteamp;amp;BB_id=130601amp;quot;amp;gt;Will Democrats muck up health reform by infighting and power plays?amp;lt;/aamp;gt;...
By David E. Williams Only a few months ago, Goldman Sachs was touted as an incredible bastion of strength in the face of the credit crunch. Sure some other institutions might have been...
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn The buyers of medical devices aren't very good shoppers. They lack the kind of information about technologies that would help them make value-based purchasing
By Gilles Frydman For too many years, I've witnessed the same thing. First, it was in the ACOR system. Then it occurred in many conferences about eHealth, e-Patients, and now Health...
By Joshua Seidman The Center for American Progress (CAP) released a new “Blueprint for Reform” that focuses on how to fix the delivery system. This well-constructed document and provocative...
By Jim Walker “Contagious” is an interesting word, especially when used outside the world of health care, carrying both positive and negative connotations, such as, “her laughter was...
By Ruth Given Ruth Given has spent the last few months doing an exhaustive study of the physician ratings business. Ruth is an independent health economist and consultant who has in...
By Deron Schriver THCB regular reader Deron Schriver wants THCB readers to suggest plans to reform the health care system. Here's his appeal: I enjoy many of the discussions on THCB....
By Sarah Arnquist Trudy Lieberman at the CJR : Campaign Desk calls Mike Huckabee's views on health care "a fresh addition to the national health care discussion." Huckabee talked about...
Alex Drane talks about how she hopes Engage with Grace will become a viral movement of the good type!
By Robert Laszewski With 258 House and 57 Senate Democrats, it's almost certain that major health reform will be passed, right? Actually, that was the number of Democrats Bill Clinton...
Health care information technology in an early Obama Administration By JOHN HALAMKA When Obama takes office in January, the economy will be his first priority, followed by the war in...
By THCB Staff In a letter of congratulations, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus told Obama he's already got health reform on his radar. THCB regular Michael Millenson doesn't...
By Matthew Holt On THCB today Maggie Mahar basically tells the health reform crowd to be patient. But two members of the unreconstructed left in other venues don’t agree. In the NY
By Maggie Mahar On HealthBeat, I have talked about social solidarity as the key to meaningful health care reform. In his victory speech, President-elect Obama sounded that theme repeatedly,...
By John Halamka When Obama takes office in January, the economy will be his first priority, followed by the war in Iraq. Health care will follow as his next major issue to address.
By Scott Shreeve Continuing his series of interviews about the business care for Health 2.0, here Scott Shreeve interviews Anna-Lisa Silvestre, the VP of Online Services for Kaiser
By Matthew Holt Sermo has very quickly become the big Kahuna in the physician social network space. So big in fact that its rivals trumpet how different they are from it in their models...
By Robert Laszewski President-Elect Obama, and about every candidate for Congress, has said he wants to change the partisan tone in Washington. Obama, the Democratic Congressional leadership,...
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn We know the name of the 44th President of the United States: Barack Obama. As the next President's supporter Oprah Winfrey is known to ask, "What do you know for...
By CHARLIE BAKER I’m pretty sure that most public policy types believe they are doing the right kinds of things to encourage a greener and more resource sustainable economy. And in
“Social media is changing the way that consumers gather health information from the Internet. Patients and caregivers are no longer limited to static resources but are now sharing advice...
By Merrill Goozner Note: This post first appeared at Goozner's blog, Gooznews. A year ago, health care held a solid lead in the polls as the number one concern of the American people....
By Maggie Mahar Maggie Mahar is an award winning journalist and author. A frequent contributor to THCB, she is fellow at the Century Foundation and the author of the increasingly influential...
At last month’s Health 2.0 Conference CEO Jonathan Bush gave a tour de force interview (with Chris Lawton from the WSJ trying his best to contain him!) about what Athenahealth does
By THCB Staff Now that the results are in and the United States has officially elected Barack Obama as its next president, what does that mean to you and what will that mean for health...
By Matthew Holt Election day. At last it’s over. A gazillion dollars, mostly wasted making TV stations richer. Two years of campaigning resulting up in 3–4 months where rushed decision...
By Joshua Seidman It’s fascinating when two of my passions collide in the opinion pages of the New York Times like they did over the last week. On Friday, October 24, some seriously...
By Michael L. Millenson I was sitting here getting ready to blog on how Politics 2.0 will affect Web 2.0, when I got an email from the coordinator of a health care-related virtual community...
