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Health 2.0 Europe today; take a deep breath

By Matthew Holt I’ve been careening around the Paris metro getting the flavor of this amazing city, and tomorrow the preparation stops and Health 2.0 Europe finally happens. (Just to be clear this blog publishes on California time where it’s... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 05 2010 4:29 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0
Should We Let The Death Issue Die?

By PAUL LEVY Did you read yesterday's New York Times article by Anemona Hartocollis, entitled "Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live"? It was about a palliative care doctor who faced her own end-of-life issues in a very different...

Published Mon, Apr 05 2010 4:53 AM by The Health Care Blog
Are We Adequately Securing Personal Health Information?

By Brian Klepper and David Kibbe In a discussion about electronic health records (EHRs) a couple weeks ago, one of the Human Resource team members at a prospective client said, "I don't believe it's possible to secure electronic health data...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2010 6:51 PM by The Health Care Blog
Paris in the Springtime

By Matthew Holt While we were rehearsing for Health 2.0 we had to take a quick break to look out the window at this. Not bad, eh. You may recognize the building in the bottom left. Read More...

Published Sat, Apr 03 2010 12:59 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt
Don Berwick: An Activist Takes the Reins at CMS

By BOB WACHTER While the health reform bill will have many effects, one of its most profound will be to unshackle the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Under the legislation, CMS is now far freer to undertake a... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 02 2010 7:36 AM by The Health Care Blog
Human

By ROB LAMBERTS If there is a central theme to my work, it is this: medicine is a human thing. On the Facebook page of my podcast, I recently asked for readers to tell me some of the “war stories”... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 02 2010 5:00 AM by The Health Care Blog
Getting Over The New Normal

By MICHAEL TURPIN “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin In her 1969 Book, On Death and Dying,... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 02 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog
THCB relaunch to change focus to renewable energy, fly fishing, sailing

By Matthew Holt The Patient Reassurance and Consumer Total Insurance Confirmation Access legislation was signed into law last week, and the powers that be at THCB have had a radical rethink about what we should do next. I myself have... Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 01 2010 1:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, THCB, Matthew Holt, Bob Wachter, Jeff Goldsmith, Maggie Mahar

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Health 2.0 Europe today; take a deep breath

Should We Let The Death Issue Die?

Are We Adequately Securing Personal Health Information?

Paris in the Springtime

Don Berwick: An Activist Takes the Reins at CMS

Human

Getting Over The New Normal

THCB relaunch to change focus to renewable energy, fly fishing, sailing