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Is My Canadian Online Pharmacy Really in Canada?

By ED PULLEN, MD Maybe Not I practice in Washington State, and have a number of patients who travel to Canada to purchase their medications. Why drugs are so much less expensive in Canada than in the US is primarily... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 06 2010 2:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: pharmaceuticals, Ed Pullen

The Problem with Free Market Healthcare

By JOE FLOWER The right payment structure keeps patients healthy while saving money. We want healthcare to be abundant, effective, easy, and cheap; for too many of us too much of the time it is scarce, ineffective, and maddeningly difficult.... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 06 2010 7:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health Plans, Joe Flower, Health care costs

Slow Medicine

By KENT BOTTLES I have been thinking about the difference between slow medicine and UCLA medicine. It has made me realize how complex and difficult it is to transform American health care so that we lower per-capita cost and increase... Read More...

Published Sun, Dec 05 2010 7:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Three Ultrasounds

By Tarcia Edmunds-Jehu Sitting in an exam room I am watching my patient struggling to ask a difficult question that she clearly does not want to ask. After several attempts at starting and a few half finished sentences she finally... Read More...

Published Sun, Dec 05 2010 5:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

If I Ruled the World

By DAVID DRANOVE If you study previous attempts to reform healthcare delivery through the private sector, there is one common thread. These attempts all failed because of an absence of proper management information systems. We need integrated electronic...

Published Sat, Dec 04 2010 5:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Blood Test Surprise

BY BRAD WHITE In the spring of 2005, the sinus infection returned. I awoke severely congested with a pounding forehead and pain around my eyes that grew worse when I bent to tie my shoes. The feeling was familiar. Two... Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:55 AM by The Health Care Blog

FTC Proposes New Safeguards for On-line Privacy

By NAOMI FREUNDLICH Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission proposed a broad framework for protecting consumer privacy both on the Web and off-line. The framework is meant to help guide policymakers in crafting legislation to prevent the tracking and wholesale...

Published Thu, Dec 02 2010 7:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Publicity is Cheap, Privacy is Expensive

By JOHN HALAMKA, MD When I was 18 years old, publicity was hard to come by. Media outlets were limited to newspapers with very high editorial standards, television with few channels and very limited news time, and a few high... Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 02 2010 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Privacy, John Halamka

The Ryan/Rivlin Plan

By JOHN GOODMAN Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), have proposed an entitlement spending reform plan that is striking both for its boldness and its left-right-coming-together origins...

Published Thu, Dec 02 2010 12:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, John Goodman, ACA

Friends, with Benefits

By JONATHAN BUSH What if one doctor could “friend” or “link in” with another for the purpose of patient exchange? Today when we hear people talk about clinical integration, they’re talking about financial integration…literally owning every stage of the...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 4:12 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Jonathan Bush, HIEs

The Cost of Success

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD For those of you who didn’t know, I entered the National Novel Writing Month “contest” (which has no winners). I got to the goal of 50,000 words yesterday. One of the main questions that is asked... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 12:13 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Rob Lamberts

The preview of the Health 2.0 Accelerator Apps Network is now available on video

At the Fall 2010 Health 2.0 Conference seven companies demonstrate composite applications to connect and support patients, caregivers and providers. San Francisco, November 10, 2010 - The preview of the Health 2.0 Accelerator Apps Network is now available...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 10:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

From Pain to Poverty

By STEVE SANDERS “What am I going to do now Doc?” asked Mike, a down on his luck, 29 year–old recently unemployed truck driver, as he handed me his hospital bill. Mike was seen at our local emergency department on... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 7:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Libertarian Mind

By RONALD PIES, MD “It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.” –Simone Weil Libertarianism is much in the news these days,... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 29 2010 11:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: health care reform, Libertarian, Ronald Pies

Is This Normal?

By PAUL LEVY This is a story about consumer choice using publicly available information. Unfortunately, it is also about the power of suggestion as used by an incumbent provider organization. The friend who sent me this note is a research... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 29 2010 7:39 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, Health Plans, Paul Levy

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