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Conflicted

By MARYA ZILBERBERG, MD, MPH I want to digress from our recent focus on methods and talk a bit about conflict of interest (COI for short). There has been a lot in the press lately about doctors taking money from... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 22 2010 6:00 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

Don't Tell, Don't Ask

By LISA SUENNEN A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the unbelievable cost associated with Alzheimer’s disease and how large a population it is likely to affect. According to an op-ed piece written by Sandra Day O’Connor, among... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 7:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Human Farming & the Limits of Medical Research

By FRANK PASQUALE A Museum of Modern Art exhibit by Michael Burton once proposed that human beings themselves would be the soil for a “future farm:” Future Farm predicts that the emerging pharmaceutical research in harvesting adult stem cells from......

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Research, Clinical Trials, Frank Pasquale

Job Post: THCB Web Development/Wordpress

We're expanding. We're looking for a talented Wordpress developer to work on the final phase of the launch of the new and improved THCB. Requirements: CSS, advanced theme customization, plug-in installation, graphics skills a plus but not required...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 2:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Job Post: Health Policy Coordinator

Organization: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Location: Los Angeles, CA SEIU is seeking to hire an expert in health care administration and financing to help analyze, develop, and implement policy recommendations that support the members...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 2:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Winners of the NCI Health 2.0 Developer Challenge!

By BIANCA GROGAN Health 2.0 is excited to announce the two winners of the Enabling Community Use of Data for Cancer Prevention and Control challenge sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). And the winners are: Ozioma - uses local... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 12:44 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

Social Security as a model for the Affordable Care Act’s future

"Check Back in a Generation to See if the Health Law Withstands Challenge" suggests the New York Times in an insightful piece that ran earlier this week, which suggests Social Security as a useful comparison. Social Security was enacted in....

Published Sun, Dec 19 2010 12:32 PM by The Health Care Blog

Two Degrees of Freedom

By PAUL LEVY I don't often write about commercial ventures here, but from time to time, one that has a broader public service mission emerges. Here's the latest, recently announced. A company called Two Degrees is marketing a new, nutrition.....

Published Sun, Dec 19 2010 12:09 PM by The Health Care Blog

Between the Cracks

By KELLY CHERAMY Between the cracks is a frightening place to be. During the course of trying to improve our family’s financial stability, my husband and I were blind-sided by one hidden detail: We’d face $10,000 in costs to continue... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 18 2010 5:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Op-Ed, Health care costs, COBRA

Using An App to Confront Your Metastatic Melanoma

By GEORGE D. LUNDBERG, MD If you or anyone else you know has had a malignant melanoma, you and that other person, and your respective physicians, should click http://therapy.collabrx.com to access the Targeted Therapy Finder--Melanoma (ttf-melanoma)....

Published Fri, Dec 17 2010 8:08 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Op-Ed

Goodman's Law

By JOHN C. GOODMAN The other day I ran across five items of interest: 1. A news article about Medicare paying $800 to rent a wheelchair that could have been purchased outright for $350; 2. An article in The Atlantic... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 17 2010 7:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, John Goodman

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

Thoughts on the PCAST Report

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report this month ambitiously titled “REALIZING THE FULL POTENTIAL OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE FOR AMERICANS: THE PATH FORWARD...

Published Fri, Dec 17 2010 5:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, EHR, ONC, Margalit Gur-Arie

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