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Sermo teams with J&J
By Matthew Holt One of the big stories at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego is that Sermo is partnering with Janssen Global Services (part of J&J) to created tools for doctors to help them move their patients through the health care system. It’s...
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Tue, Mar 22 2011 5:41 AM
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The CMIO Should Be a Doctor
By MAGGIE MAHAR A hospital’s Chief Medical Information Office (CMIO) should be a physician, says Pam Brier, president and CEO of Maimonides Medical Center, “because nobody knows a doctor’s business like a doctor.” As a hospital’s information technology...
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Tue, Mar 22 2011 7:56 AM
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A Doctor is Not a Bank
By KEITH W. BOONE All too often I’ve heard the comparison between the financial industry and its efforts to make transactions electronic, and the healthcare industry. But health is not something that I can make deposits on and withdraw later. We...
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Mon, Mar 14 2011 2:12 PM
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Looking For Quality In the Wrong Place
CHRIS LANGSTON Last week I attended the first annual meeting of the Long-Term Quality Alliance and listened to Gregg Pawlson (a geriatrician and executive with NCQA) talk about quality measurement. Right now, quality measurement does too little to drive...
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Wed, Mar 16 2011 7:30 AM
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The Promise of Stem Cell Research: Recent Advancements and Setbacks
By JOE McWILIAMS Few technologies spark as much fascination, hype, and controversy as stem cell technology. One of the most interesting medical applications of stem cell research is in regenerative medicine, where stem cells are being developed to regenerate...
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Thu, Mar 17 2011 3:24 PM
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Privatize Medicaid? Have We Learned Nothing??
By MONA MANGAT, MD As we move thru 2011, many states are eagerly progressing with implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We have many Early Innovators that are leaders in setting up the state based exchanges. These states are Kansas, Maryland...
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Thu, Mar 17 2011 5:33 PM
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Does the GOP Have a Health Plan?
By JOHN GOODMAN The Republicans have no plan to insure the uninsured. How do I know that? A New York Times editorial told me. So did Ezra Klein, writing in The Washington Post. Matt Miller, also writing in the Post, went further. “I’m willing...
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Thu, Mar 31 2011 1:14 PM
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De Tocqueville Rewrites the Affordable Care Act
By DAVE DRANOVE Pending Supreme Court review, the provisions of Affordable Care Act (ACA) are gradually working their way through the system. But we are still three years away from the centerpiece of the ACA – the insurance exchanges. The combination...
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Wed, Mar 02 2011 11:14 AM
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The Value a Life
By BENJAMIN GEISLER A recent NYTimes article on how to value a life drew almost two-hundred heavy-handed comments. It discussed how different governmental agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
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Thu, Mar 03 2011 11:41 AM
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Heart Failure or System Failure?
By MERRILL GOOZNER Today’s New England Journal of Medicine reports the results of a government-funded study of two potential approaches to giving emergency diuretics to congestive heart failure patients who show up on emergency room doorsteps gasping...
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Fri, Mar 04 2011 6:41 AM
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Health 2.0 News Bites are up
Over on our sister site, the Health 2.0 News Blog, MEDecision, Human Health Project and many more are on this week’s extensive list of news bites–with cool new icons! Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...
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Fri, Mar 04 2011 7:51 AM
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The Incredible and Wasteful Complexity of the US Healthcare System
By HUMPHREY TAYLOR and IAN MORRISON During the health care reform debate, we wrote that most people’s attitudes to it were “confused, conflicted, clueless and cranky.” A major reason was that the American health care “system” is fiendishly complicated...
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Thu, Mar 24 2011 7:03 AM
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
By KIMBERLEY MANNING, MD On May 19, 1996, I graduated from medical school. And although I look and seem ridiculously youthful (I know, that’s what you were saying) it’s been–as my patients at Grady like to say–”a mi-nute”...
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Sun, Mar 27 2011 10:37 AM
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A Growing Chorus on the RUC
By BRIAN KLEPPER Yesterday on Kaiser Health News, Barbara Levy MD, the Chair of the AMA’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (or RUC), published a glowing defense of the RUC’s activities. Her article extols the work of the 29 physician...
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Tue, Mar 29 2011 12:42 PM
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Defined Contribution Health Care—The Conservatives’ Silver Bullet
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Conservatives are in a full court press these days telling us the answer to America’s out-of-control health care costs—and our fiscal crisis—is to move Medicare, Medicaid, and the tax code subsidy for private insurance to a defined...
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Tue, Mar 01 2011 7:30 AM
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