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What Would a Health Care Mutual Look Like?
By MARC-DAVID MONK, MD For a few years I’ve been fantasizing about what a healthcare insurance/ delivery mutual would look like. I’ve yet to see one but I like the idea a lot. Here’s the idea behind a mutual: A mutual structure means that the company...
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Tue, Jan 05 2016 3:47 PM
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Bernie May Have a Point… by Roger Collier EHR Incentive Programs: Where We Go From Here by Andy Slavitt and Karen DeSalvo, MD Should Companies Invest In a Chief Health Officer? by Jaan Sidorov, MD Is Health care Ripe for Disintermediation? by Paul Keckly...
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Wed, Jan 20 2016 6:47 PM
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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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Matthew’s Issues & Charities at end 2015, start 2016
Every year (well almost) I write a letter to friends and contacts about which charities I give to and which issues I support, and recently I’ve been posting it on THCB–hey I own the joint so who’s going to stop me!. Here’s this...
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Sun, Jan 03 2016 5:54 PM
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False Positive Mammograms and Cancer Risk: An Epidemiological whodunit
By SAURABH JHA, MD I enjoyed Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. Not only did the ingenious Belgian solve the murder so artfully. But someone identifiable is killed and someone identifiable is the killer. Epidemiological studies are whodunits, too. Except...
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Mon, Jan 04 2016 8:23 AM
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Saurabh Jha
Will the Pharmaceutical Industry Learn From Past Mistakes?
By SOEREN MATTKE, MD Awash in negative headlines, public condemnation and government scrutiny, the pharmaceutical industry faces a public relations problem that, left untreated, could bring new regulations or sanctions either from governments or the courts...
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Fri, Jan 22 2016 2:12 PM
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Soeren Mattke
The Dismal Science Behind Financial Incentives For Docs
By JAAN SIDOROV, MD “It is written: Man shall not live by bread alone.” Luke 4:4 No matter what you think of the source of that quote, the idea that there may be limits to “aligning incentives” has some merit. In healthcare settings...
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Tue, Jan 12 2016 7:02 AM
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Medicare For All? No, But …
BY ROGER COLLIER It doesn’t seem likely that Senator Bernie Sanders will be our next president, but the current primary election campaign is throwing some pretty startling curveballs. With substantial popular support for one candidate with a fondness...
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Sat, Jan 16 2016 7:14 PM
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The Unaffordable Care Act
By DEVON M HERRICK Liberal public health advocates and left-of-center health policy wonks have long thought every American needs health insurance (they don’t, but that’s another discussion). Lefties assume health insurance is the only way Americans access...
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Thu, Jan 21 2016 5:56 PM
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Bernie May Have a Point …
BY ROGER COLLIER It doesn’t seem likely that Senator Bernie Sanders will be our next president, but the current primary election campaign is throwing some pretty startling curveballs. With substantial popular support for one candidate with a fondness...
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Mon, Jan 18 2016 9:14 AM
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Toyota-ism vs Taylorism
By MIKE GRABAN If you’re new to the idea of “Lean,” I invite you to download and read chapter 1 of my book Lean Hospitals. Hat tip to Suresh for pointing me toward this article that was just published January 14th in the New England Journal of Medicine...
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Sat, Jan 16 2016 2:39 PM
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Like Uber for Health Care With Sherpas?
By ROB LAMBERTS 2015 was a hard year for my father. He’s a remarkably healthy 89 year-old, with no diabetes, no hypertension, and (most importantly) he’s got a sharper mind than I do on most days. Perhaps that’s a low bar to cross, but...
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Wed, Jan 06 2016 8:47 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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Mon, Jan 18 2016 11:00 PM
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Is Health Care Ripe for Disintermediation?
By PAUL KECKLY What do Ashton Kutcher, Donald Trump and Travis Kalanick have in common? They recognized an opportunity and used it to their advantage. That trend: disintermediation—the opportunity to deliver a product or service to a consumer with higher...
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Mon, Jan 18 2016 9:42 PM
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