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Health in 2 point 00 Episode 4, HIMSS18 kickoff special

In which Jessica DaMassa asks me questions about Uber, Apple, Verily, Eric Schmidt, Oliver Wyman and UPMC’s profits. All in 2 minutes in this HIMSS18 special edition. Watch out! As we are going to try to do this every day this week from HIMSS, if...

Published Sun, Mar 04 2018 11:14 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Deadline This Week For Your Special Rate For Health 2.0 Annual Conference

SPONSORED POST By HEALTH 2.0 Deadline This Friday To Grab The Lowest Price For The Health 2.0 Annual Fall Conference! Secure your $999 rate today for the 12th Annual Fall Conference before the price increases this weekend. We want you to experience the...

Published Tue, Mar 06 2018 10:09 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 8

It’s the end of #HIMSS18 where Jessica DaMassa asks me the end of term questions, while the exhibit hall is being torn down around us. We’ll be back to our weekly schedule next week–Matthew Holt Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 09 2018 8:59 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt

What to Decide When You’re Expecting

By ERIN LANDAU and REENA AGGARWAL, MD Selecting an obstetrician or midwife and birth center or hospital is arguably one of the most important decisions that a pregnant woman makes. This choice will determine many aspects of a woman’s pregnancy journey...

Published Wed, Mar 07 2018 10:02 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Ovia Health, c-section, Aridane Labs, Ovia Pregnancy App

Why Lawmakers Must Vote Down Right to Try

By ANDREW MCFADYEN & ALEXANDRA HALL As rare disease patient advocates, we work with terminally ill patients on a daily basis. A new version of the ‘Right to Try’ bill, which purports to help terminally ill patients access experimental medication,...

Published Mon, Mar 12 2018 1:39 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Do We Have a Plan For You!

MICHAEL MILLENSON Struggling to break free from Obamacare oppression, Idaho is offering low-cost health plans that achieve this goal by avoiding covering anyone who’s been sick in the past and skimping on coverage for any diseases that might make you...

Published Sat, Mar 17 2018 5:23 AM by THCB

Filed under: Michael Millenson, Uncategorized

National Healthcare Insurance Isn’t Enough: Six Crucial Steps To Improve Healthcare

By ALBERT S. WAXMAN, PhD Healthcare reform has finally made its way through the U.S. political machinery, emerging with a $1 trillion reform plan extending health insurance to 32 million additional Americans and eliminating other barriers to healthcare...

Published Fri, May 21 2010 2:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

It Slices, It Dices, It Fleeces

By MICHAEL TURPIN Infomercials annoy me. They are social polyps that have grown to outlandish proportions on the intestines of a bloated and sick American media. The portmanteau term “ infomercial” is clearly an oxymoron describing the contradiction of...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 5:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Alexandra Drane, fabulous, poacher

By Matthew Holt One of my favorite people has the (first of) her (several) 15 minutes of fame in the NY Times today. Alex Drane tells all about growing a small business into a pretty big one (although it’s in... Read More...

Published Tue, May 25 2010 2:34 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Matthew Holt, Health Plans

HIT Trends Summary for July 2010

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for June 2010. You can get the current issue here. E-prescribing. Two surveys re-confirm that while e-prescribing adoption is rapidly increasing, utilization continues to lag, particularly with...

Published Thu, Aug 05 2010 6:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

MinuteClinic’s hour may be at hand

By DAVID WILLIAMS Mark Perry draws an interesting inference from two news stories: a WSJ article that suggests consumers are using less health care and another that reports a big jump in MinuteClinic volumes. Consumers aren’t necessarily consuming less...

Published Thu, Aug 05 2010 7:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, David E. Williams, Walk-in clinics

A Bizarre Report

By JOHN GOODMAN I have been watching the release of the Medicare Trustees reports for many years and I have never seen anything as strange as what happened last week. Although these reports are normally carefully embargoed, Health and Human... Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 10 2010 9:03 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, John Goodman

Difficulties With Diagnosis

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS I’m impressed that the Boston Globe printed a number of insightful letters in response to its Mistakes that matter article, which discussed the case of two patients whose prostate cancer biopsies got mixed up. (One had... Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 11 2010 7:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, David Williams, Patient Safety

Imperfect Timing, Interesting Findings

By ROGER COLLIER I’ve been reading a recent paper from the Committee for Economic Development, one of the less doctrinaire business research groups, that should give health care reform advocates (and opponents) food for thought. " Health Care in...

Published Fri, Aug 13 2010 8:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Primary Care is Not a Panacea: It Takes a Team

By MAGGIE MAHAR The emphasis on primary care as the “key” to lifting the quality of U.S. healthcare may be exaggerated according to a report, released today, by Dartmouth’s Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. “Primary care forms the....

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 11:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, primary care, Maggie Mahar

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