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How Would Modern Medicine have Helped our Early Patriots?

By ED PULLEN, MD On Independence Day I thought it would be interesting to look at the causes of death of some of our famous Revolutionary era patriots. When I started researching this I anticipated early deaths from infections and... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 05 2010 8:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: History, Ed Pullen
Do-It-Yourself Health Care

By PATRICIA SALBER I was debating merits of DIY healthcare with my buddy, Brian Klepper, PhD -healthcare analyst and pundit extraordinaire - the other day. He is not a fan, preferring instead to have better, stronger, more informed, technologically enabled...

Published Mon, Jul 05 2010 5:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, Consumers, Patricia Salber
A Permanent "Doc-Fix" Remains Elusive

By NAOMI FREUNDLICH For now, all those physicians who threatened to make a mass exodus from Medicare can take a breather. Last week, the House voted to once again delay the mandated 21% cut in physician fees by another six... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 05 2010 3:30 AM by The Health Care Blog
Why we need to Engage With Grace

By Matthew Holt This week the AP published a long piece about overtreatment at the end of life. I encourage you to read it. The article featured the story of Za: The doctors finally let Rosaria Vandenberg go home. For... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 9:41 AM by The Health Care Blog
The Not For-Profit / For-Profit Divide

By PAUL LEVY Many people involved in hospitals wonder how it can be financially prudent for investors to put their money into for-profit ventures that buy non-profit hospitals. (Examples here and here.) After all, the argument goes, the newly privatized...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 7:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Hospitals, Non-profits
Consenting Technologies

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Yesterday, ONC held a fine gathering at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC. There were experts, ONC Tiger team members and cutting edge technology vendors displaying and discussing platforms and software for providing patients the opportunity...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 6:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Electronic Medical Records, Privacy
The .Gov

Obama administration CTO Aneesh Chopra was a keynote speaker at the Health 2.0 conference in Washington last month. Here he talks about why the White House thinks open data policies will revolutionize healthcare, the administration's plans to encourage...

Published Thu, Jul 01 2010 4:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Obama administration

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Do-It-Yourself Health Care

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Why we need to Engage With Grace

The Not For-Profit / For-Profit Divide

Consenting Technologies

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