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Conflicts Of Interest In Guideline Development: A Dirty Little Secret Gets Aired Again

By DAVID WILLIAMS An Archives of Internal Medicine article (Conflicts of Interest in Cardiovascular Clinical Practice Guidelines) is getting a lot of notice today. In essence, many of the physicians who develop guideline that influence practice patterns...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 4:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, NIH, cardiology, Conflict of interest, Guidelines, Eli Lilly, Archives of Internal Medicine

What’s The Worst Case Scenario In Japan Nuke Crisis?

By MERRILL GOOZNER This from John Beddington, the United Kingdom’s chief science advisor at its Tokyo embassy: Let me now talk about what would be a reasonable worst case scenario. If the Japanese fail to keep the reactors cool and fail to keep the pressure...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 6:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Merrill Goozner, Radiation exposure

HIT Trends Summary for May 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends report for May 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. E-prescribing scale and innovation. Surescripts reports dramatic growth for e-prescribing with a third of office-based physicians...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, Michael Lake, Tech

A Crucial Requirement To Cure U.S. Healthcare Long-Term: Curb Raging Inflation

By Albert Waxman, Ph.D, CEO and Senior Managing Member of Psilos Group The Senate Finance Committee pushed the likelihood of mandatory U.S. healthcare insurance a giant step forward this week by passing a healthcare reform bill that is likely to... Read...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 10:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 and the Big Bang

By GLENN LAFFEL It’s hard to believe that last week’s Health 2.0 conference was just the third annual installment of the event. The phrase, “Health 2.0” entered our lexicon at light speed and seems to have been there longer than... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2009 9:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Will Business Force Reform Back To The Drawing Board?

By BRIAN KLEPPER and DAVID C. KIBBE Until now, non-health care business has been noticeably absent from the health care reform proceedings, and quiet about the bills' impacts on their management of employee benefits, on cost, and on the larger......

Published Thu, Nov 12 2009 11:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

The FDA Steps In: Regulating Prescription Drug Promotion on the Internet

By Kate Greenwood, The FDA has been widely criticized for not providing guidance for drug companies eager to promote their products on the internet. Earlier this year, the FDA expressed the view that the message was what was important, not... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2009 3:38 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: FDA, Social Media

Two Kidneys and 100,000 Lives

By PAUL LEVY This story about a kidney transplant mix-up in California is bound to get lots of coverage. It is these extraordinary cases that get public attention. I am sure it will lead to a whole new set of national rules designed to keep such a thing...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2011 10:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Paul Levy, Front Page

Personal health records: will doctors connect?

BY JANE SARASOHN-KAHN What doctors are most likely to use patients’ personal electronic health records? Fewer than 1 in 2 are willing to. Those who most likely would include Hispanic physicians, doctors who practice in rural areas, those employed in hospitals...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2011 9:34 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HITECH, Physicians, PHRs, Front Page

Health 2.0 News Bites are up

Over on our sister site, the Health 2.0 News Blog, MEDecision, Human Health Project and many more are on this week’s extensive list of news bites–with cool new icons! Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 04 2011 7:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Front Page

HIT Trends Summary for March 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for March 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. Government drivers. Federal communications dominated this month’s news. ONC defended its core EHR strategy through a report published...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2011 1:37 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, ONC, HIEs, ACOs, Michael Lake, Tech, HIT trends

THCB Live: Sage CEO Betty Otter-Nickerson

Betty Otter-Nickerson, Sage from Health 2.0 on Vimeo. Matthew caught up with Sage Healthcare CEO Betty Otter-Nickerson at HIMSS to talk about the company’s plans for 2011 and beyond. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 1:57 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HIMSS 2011, Betty Otter-Nickerson, Sage

Looking For Quality In the Wrong Place

CHRIS LANGSTON Last week I attended the first annual meeting of the Long-Term Quality Alliance and listened to Gregg Pawlson (a geriatrician and executive with NCQA) talk about quality measurement. Right now, quality measurement does too little to drive...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 7:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Geriatric Medicine

The New Cost-Conscious Doctor

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN Doctors practicing in the U.S. are becoming increasingly conscious of the increasing costs of health care. Most consider themselves cost-conscious, and are considering the impact of their practice patterns — in terms of prescribing...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 9:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Physicians, Health care costs, Cost-conscious

The 2010 DiabetesMine Challenge

By Amy Tenderich We have just opened the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. This year, we’ll be selecting THREE Grand Prize winners to EACH receive $7,000 in cash and a support package to help winners realize and commercialize their design ideas.......

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 1:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Consumers

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