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Would Patients Pay For This?
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD Health care in America is fracturing right down the middle, and doctors are going to have to figure out if or how long they can straddle the divide between what patients want and what the Government and Corporate America want them...
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Fri, Jan 08 2016 11:29 AM
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What Do We Know About Medical Errors Associated With Electronic Medical Records?
By ROSS KOPPEL Recently, the Journal of Patient Safety published a powerful and important article on the role of EHRs in patient harm, errors and malpractice claims. The article is open access. Electronic Health Record–Related Events in Medical Malpractice...
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Mon, Jan 11 2016 8:34 AM
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Health 2.0 WinterTech–Health Tech Investing at #JPM16
Health 2.0’s WinterTech conference is today January 13. It features leaders from Venrock, Canvas, Grand Rounds, Doximity, Livongo, Omada Health, Maverick Capital, GE Ventures, Kaiser Permanente and more. It’s the only event dedicated to health...
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Tue, Jan 12 2016 5:57 PM
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So, You’re a Next Generation ACO …
BY KOFI JONES CMS recently announced the inaugural class of Next Generation ACOs – the latest accountable care models which includes higher levels of financial risk and greater opportunity for reward than have been available within the Pioneer Model...
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Thu, Jan 14 2016 5:50 PM
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Ask Not What You Can Do For Medicare
By ANISH KOKA, MD Mrs. Cassidy slowly walks into my office one busy afternoon. I see her out of the corner of my eye because she is hard to miss. Mrs. Cassidy has some serious style. She has a deep orange dress with a bright blue blazer on. There aren’t...
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Mon, Jan 18 2016 7:51 AM
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Mon, Jan 18 2016 11:00 PM
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FHIR: The Last, Best Chance to Achieve Interoperability?
By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD Can an impassioned band of savvy, battle-tested techno-optimists save our healthcare system from its worst instincts, and deliver at least a soupcon of real interoperability? That’s the question I found myself seriously contemplating...
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Wed, Jan 20 2016 7:45 PM
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Data Parasites?
By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD In just four years, it seems, data science has devolved from the “sexiest job of the 21stcentury” to a community of “research parasites.” The latest assessment is courtesy of an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM...
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Sat, Jan 23 2016 10:19 AM
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Data Socialism
By SAURABH JHA, MD In an unusually candid editorial in the NEJM, Longo and Drazen say that data sharing may be problematic because some researchers fear that the data could be used to by others to disprove their results. The editors predicted a new class...
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Tue, Jan 26 2016 4:20 AM
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There is Nothing Free about The “Health Care” Market
By NORTIN M HADLER, MD “Universal Health Care”, “Single Payer”, “National Health Insurance”, “Socialized Medicine” are all semiotics symbolizing the subjugation of physician and of patient autonomy to government control for the sake of the common good...
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Sat, Jan 30 2016 3:32 PM
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Iowa Is Voting On Health Care Tonight
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE In his last State of the Union address, President Obama stated that “anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction”. I agree. The American economy has roared back from the Great Recession with 14 million...
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Sun, Jan 31 2016 8:46 PM
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Changes In Work Hours and Employer Insurance Not Borne Out
By RICK KRONICK Today, two AHRQ-sponsored studies were released that conclude that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has not reduced the availability of full-time work or the work incentive for low-wage workers. In the first study, researchers examined the...
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Tue, Jan 05 2016 12:38 PM
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2016 Obamacare Outlook
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI One of the more Obamacare fluent reporters just emailed me a set of questions regarding the 2016 outlook for Obamacare. I thought I would share my responses with you: According to early CMS data, 38% of exchange enrollees are under...
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Thu, Jan 07 2016 10:03 AM
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Very Bad Numbers by Anish Koka, MD What Would a Health Care Mutual Look Like? by Munk, MD A Health IT Developer’s Confession: How Bad Software Is Made and What to Do About It by Margalit Gur-Arie Think Again: Health Insurers Have No Reason To Reduce...
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Fri, Jan 08 2016 1:15 PM
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The Case For Calling the Dietary Guidelines What They Really Are
By DAVID KATZ, MD Call me crazy. Or Ishmael, for that matter. I think “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” should be something vaguely like, well, oh I don’t know, maybe: guidelines for Americans. About how to eat well. What does “dietary guidelines” make...
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Tue, Jan 12 2016 2:39 PM
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