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How Reform Law Funds Itself, Strengthens Medicare, and Cuts the Deficit: Part 1

By MAGGIE MAHAR The Mainstream Media Rarely Tries to Explain the Congressional Budget Office’s nearly unbelievable claims that the Patient Protect and Affordable Care Act can: 1) Pay for itself 2) Provide coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans 3...

Published Fri, Oct 22 2010 9:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Policy/Politics, Maggie Mahar, health care reform

Fred Goes to Washington

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD Everyone must have sore butts from sitting on the edge of their seats while reading my previous episodes of “The Doctor is (Not Totally) In.” I am sorry if you are one of the sore butted... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 25 2010 11:36 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Meaningful Use, Rob Lamberts

The Shame of Malpractice Lawsuits

By PAUL LEVY This posting is not about tort reform. It is not about defensive medicine (e.g., MDs taking too many tests to avoid the chance of lawsuit.) It is not about controlling costs or improving the quality of care.... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 27 2010 4:10 PM by The Health Care Blog

Unhealthy Skepticism

By JOHN MOORE There remains an unhealthy level of skepticism in the market as to whether or not consumers will use a personal health record (PHR). While a certain level of skepticism is healthy in any market, the level to... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 4:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Measurement Question

By VIPAN NIKORE I sat at home with a sense of relief. I had just finished my first month of residency - a grueling Cardiology month with very little sleep or food. I now finally had my first weekend off.... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 8:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Hospital Discharge Without a Net

By JESSIE GRUMAN By the time I reached the sixth day of my hospitalization for stomach cancer surgery, I was antsy to go home and I quizzed each nurse and physician who came into my room about what must happen... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 16 2010 1:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Jessie Gruman

Health 2.0 Fall Conference Videos

By Bianca Grogan On October 7-8, 2010, Health 2.0 held its annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference in San Francisco, Ca. If you go to Health 2.0 TV you can find all of the best on stage moments, including the hosts'... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 3:47 PM by The Health Care Blog

Saving the Good in Healthcare Reform

By JANE ORIENT, MD Some have suggested piecemeal repeal of the most obnoxious features of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The risk of this approach is comparable to that in cancer surgery: you might not get it all. In 906... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2010 5:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Augmenting My Reality

By ALEX EPSTEIN When I first heard about Augmented Reality, I thought – this is really cool. Let me try and augment mine. And I had a vision that included Scarlett Johannson (just kidding, sweetheart) and a home totally free... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 19 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

500 Meetings a Day

By JOHN HALAMKA, MD In the early 1980's when I was running a small software company while attending Stanford as an undergraduate, my business activities were limited to the number of phone calls I could receive in a day. At... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 22 2010 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Who Cares?

By PETER KRUGER The father of a wireless engineer, who made a good living designing mobile devices, contracted a rare and chronic form of athlete’s foot. Over the course of a few months, the father’s condition worsened and eventually he... Read More....

Published Thu, Dec 23 2010 8:05 AM by The Health Care Blog

Tweetcasting @2011 : Health Reform Implementation, Mobile Health and Patient Safety

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS My crystal ball is a little foggy so I decided to ask my Twitter followers (@HealthBizBlog) to help compile a list of health care predictions for 2011. I’ve integrated my thoughts with theirs and organized the... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 27 2010 7:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Difficult Science, Part II

By KENT BOTTLES, MD “Despite their great explanatory powers these laws [such as gravity] do not describe reality. Instead, fundamental laws describe highly idealized objects in models.” -- Nancy Cartwright, “Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?” In...

Published Tue, Dec 28 2010 11:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Twas the Night Before [HIT] Implementation

By LISA SUENNEN (stealing liberally from Clement Clarke Moore) An ode to healthcare information technology modernization ‘Twas the night before Christmas, in the ER of St. Strauss, Not a doctor was working, not even House; The IVs were hung by... Read...

Published Thu, Dec 30 2010 4:42 AM by The Health Care Blog

Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba Boom!

By RICHARD REECE, MD January 1, 2011 -Yes, yes, it’s true. Today 79 million baby boomers, born from 1946 to 1964, start turning 65. Yes, yes, it’s true. Boomers begin qualifying for Medicare. Yes, yes, it’s true. If my math... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 03 2011 4:58 AM by The Health Care Blog

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