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Medical Associations Non-Pulsed by Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Accord

By DAVID INTROCASO Climate change, or changes in weather extremes, are having an increasingly harmful effect on human health. Last year, the 20th consecutive year in which the US experienced above average annual temperatures, saw increasing instances...

Published Tue, Jun 13 2017 11:14 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Trump, Introcaso, Paris Accord, Cimate Change, Tillerson

Trump’s Brain: What’s Going On?

BY STEVEN FINDLAY In late May the science and health news site STAT ran a provocative article titled: “Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?” Not surprisingly, the piece went viral. After all, aren’t most of...

Published Mon, Jun 19 2017 1:15 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Steve Findlay, Trump, Goldwater Rule

Examining How Senate Republicans Frame Their Health Care Bill

By JASON CHUNG You can find the full text of the Senate Bill here. Following is the Senate Republicans summary of their Obamacare replacement bill, with comments by NYU’s Jason Chung. Seven years ago, Democrats imposed a risky health care experiment...

Published Thu, Jun 22 2017 4:27 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Jason Chung, Senate Bill

Healthcare’s Fake News Epidemic

By BRIAN JOONDEPH, MD Fake news has replaced responsible journalism. It’s hard to know what to believe. It wasn’t long ago that supermarket tabloids like National Enquirer were considered fake news. Now it seems the Enquirer and TMZ may be more reliable...

Published Sun, Jun 25 2017 1:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: CBO, Obamacare, Uncategorized, AHCA, McConnell, Joondeph

Did “Medicus economicus” Kill Medicare Part B Reform?

By DAVID, MATTHEWS and MAUGHN When doctors complain about proposed changes to health care reimbursement, do they speak for patients or their pocketbooks? As the recent debate over Medicare Part B shows, even with access to publicly available billing data...

Published Wed, Jun 28 2017 4:46 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Medicus Econ

Announcing Dr. Don Rucker as a Featured Speaker for the Fall Conference!

By JILL MERRIGAN We are pleased to announce that Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be a featured speaker and a panelist at our upcoming Health 2.0 11th Annual...

Published Wed, Jul 05 2017 10:36 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0

Should Doctors and Nurses Be Patient Activists?

By DANIELLE OFRI, MD When the eminent physician Dr Cliff Cleveland wrote his memoir about his years in medical practice, he entitled his book, “Sacred Space.” Yes, it’s a bit sentimental, but he pays rightful homage to the idea that that relationship...

Published Sun, Jul 09 2017 7:28 AM by THCB

Filed under: Nurses, Uncategorized, Doctors, Patient Activism, Danielle Ofri

Changing Health Insurance Plans Again. Seriously?

By PAUL KECKLEY On the golf course, my son Jason has an uncanny ability to hit any tree within earshot of his intended target line. It’s fait accompli in his book. And his reaction is always the same: “seriously!” The same is his plight with health insurance...

Published Mon, Jul 10 2017 4:46 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Regulatory Capture Tests the New Administration

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD The bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act charges HHS / ONC to deal with two issues that previous laws (HIPAA and HITECH) and the Obama HHS left in-progress: information blocking and longitudinal health records. ONC needs to deal with...

Published Mon, Jul 17 2017 11:36 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, National Trust Frame

Shining a Light on Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research

By MAGGIE MAHAR Last week Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health proposed important new rule changes for federally-funded investigators that are designed to increase transparency and remove many of the conflicts of interest...

Published Thu, May 27 2010 10:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Pitfalls of PPACA #1 – The Medical Loss Ratio Rule

By ROGER COLLIER The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in March, is a significant step towards a more equitable health insurance system, potentially making coverage available to millions of the currently uninsured...

Published Fri, May 28 2010 8:33 AM by The Health Care Blog

Yahoo--The sleeping giant awakes?

By Matthew Holt While Yahoo!’s most recent notable public moment has been its CEO telling some (other) ex-pat British blogger to “*** Off”, this British ex-pat blogger has been waiting for a long time for Yahoo! to re-emerge in health... Read More...

Published Sat, May 29 2010 7:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers, User Generated Content

Tomorrow's Webcast--The CHDI Forum

By Matthew Holt The Health 2.0 crew is heading to DC immediately after today's webinar. It’s still not too late to sign up for the 10am webinar. Then tomorrow, it’s the Community Health Data Initiative Forum Aman Bhandari who works... Read More.....

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 9:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0

Announcing the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge

By Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt Today, it was a great thrill for us to have Aneesh Chopra (CTO of the Federal Government) this morning in DC at the Community Health Data Initiative Data Forum announce the The 2010 Health... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 02 2010 10:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

The NY Times, dogs, sores & Dartmouth critics

By Matthew Holt Today’s NY Times has a confused, woffly attack on Dartmouth from Reed Abelson & Gardiner Harris. This is a dreadful article. Period. That the NY Times printed it is remarkable given the turnaround in thinking by David... Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 03 2010 12:32 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Congress, Health 2.0, Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Health Plans, Consumers

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