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How Hedge Funds Get Inside Information From Doctors About Clinical Trials

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS Last week’s arrest of a French doctor for leaking information about a clinical trial to a hedge fund is disturbing, but the alleged activity is neither new nor particularly rare. I’m going to describe how the... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 4:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Healthy People 2020 Participates in the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge

Health 2.0 is excited to announce the first challenge for the 2011 cycle of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge that will be live through the New Year! Healthy People 2020, launched on December 2, 2010, is the Nation’s leading health... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 08 2010 11:05 AM by The Health Care Blog

The McVictim Syndrome Could Kill Us

By DAVID GRATZER, MD Call it the McVictim syndrome. Too many pundits, public health experts and politicians are working overtime to find scapegoats for America's obesity epidemic. In his latest book, former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler argues...

Published Thu, Dec 09 2010 6:12 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Obesity, David Gratzer

Health 2.0 San Francisco - Tim O’Reilly Keynote

By THCB STAFF How are Web 2.0 technologies changing healthcare? What are the implications of trends like cloud-based computing for major healthcare players like pharma companies and large health systems? What about mobile computing? What are the practical...

Published Fri, Dec 10 2010 11:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Sticker Shock

By GRAYSON WHEATLEY It was supposed to be a routine office visit for my patient. Unexpectedly, it turned into a real-world health economics lesson for me, the treating physician. The old adage “listen to your patients; they will always give... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 8:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Great Ideas: Improving Healthcare Infrastructure

By GEORGE HALVORSON Sepsis is the number one cause of death in American hospitals--higher than cancer or stroke. Your chance of dying from a sepsis infection can triple if you choose a hospital that doesn’t have a good sepsis response... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 11:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Announces its Starting Five for the 2011 Developer Challenge

Following the success of the 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge, we are excited to get the ball rolling again for 2011. Within the short time the Developer Challenge has been live, we have had six winners, who were able to... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 15 2010 11:36 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 NYC Chapter Angel "shark tank" on Jan 19

If you don't know what an Angel VC shark tank matchmaking event is, you can find out when the wildly successful Health 2.0 NYC Chapter has one on January 19.(It might have something to do with Health 2.0 start-ups being... Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 16 2010 3:23 PM by The Health Care Blog

Loser Pays

Tort reform is a hot-button issue among physicians. It distorts the practice of medicine by compelling doctors to order tests, the lack of which, might be used against them. It makes each patient a potential enemy. It forces doctors to... Read More.....

Published Fri, Dec 17 2010 7:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Why Medical Testing Is Never a Simple Decision

By MARYA ZILBERBERG A couple of days ago, Archives of Internal Medicine published a case report online. Now, it is rather unusual for a high impact journal to publish even a case series, let alone a case report. Yet this... Read More...

Published Sun, Dec 19 2010 4:40 PM by The Health Care Blog

2010 Unplugged

By BOB WACHTER, MD For people like me, who, perversely enough, get a certain thrill from studying healthcare policy, there's never been a more exciting, if also dizzying, year than 2010. Passage of the reform bill last March was only... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 03 2011 7:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Docs Wash Hands Like Guys In Gas Station Bathroom

By MICHAEL MILLENSON OK, a new study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine did not directly compare how often someone washes their hands after using a gas station bathroom and how often your doctor washes his hands... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 9:55 AM by The Health Care Blog

JSK & Joe DeLuca on KQED

By Matthew Holt One of the best local talk shows anywhere is Michael Krasny's Forum on 88.5 KQED, San Francisco's establishment NPR station (SF of course has a rebel NPR station KALW which has had me on a couple of... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 9:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

State of Health Care Quality: Some States Better Than Others

By Margaret E. O'Keane, President National Committee For Quality Assurance Peggy O'Kane has been running the NCQA for longer than she might care to remember. NCQA is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2009 7:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0: Beneath the Hype, There's Cause for Real Hope

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Health 2.0 is a trend accompanied by both buzz and buzzwords. That worries some advocates for the poor, underserved and just plain old and sick. Will those groups be left behind in the latest information revolution? The... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 24 2009 10:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Michael Millenson

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