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The Compromise
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI This week's House health care repeal vote is little more than a political stunt--everyone knows the effort will die in the Senate. But, when the day is done the only way for the Republicans to do anything... Read More...
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Tue, Jan 18 2011 2:00 AM
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Centrists Back Health Care Reform
By MERRILL GOOZNER The tone on Capitol Hill during Tuesday’s debate was more civil, the partisan rhetoric less harsh than previous exchanges on the House floor. But there’s little doubt that the Republican-led House will vote later today to repeal......
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Wed, Jan 19 2011 5:30 AM
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Change The Rules and Get Your Labs
By Phil Marshall In 1999 Caresoft developed a consumer web portal called the Daily Apple. The Daily Apple wasn’t all that unique or different than other health portals, until in May of 2000 they began helping consumers download their lab... Read More...
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Mon, Oct 19 2009 1:04 AM
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NPfIT Blazing the Trail
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The National Audit Office (NAO) in the UK has recently published a report evaluating the status of “The National Programme for IT in the NHS” (NPfIT). The program is a very ambitious top down initiative to deploy Health Information...
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Tue, May 24 2011 5:34 AM
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Help With Covered California
By ACA DATABASE JOE wrote THCB with a interesting question that could be an outlier or could be significant: Do you know of a consulting firm or advisory firm that can assist me in applying for insurance through Covered California? When I applied for...
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Wed, Nov 19 2014 8:43 AM
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What Most Needs Repealing and Replacing
By JOHN GOODMAN, PhD Tomorrow night the House of Representatives will debate the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), what many call "ObamaCare." Some critics complain that this is a futile exercise because there is...
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Mon, Jan 17 2011 8:23 AM
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Expanding Medicare Advantage Benefits to Address Social Determinants of Health
By GILBERT BENAVEDEZ The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans could, in 2019, expand the health-related benefits they offer. In the announcement CMS wrote that it would “allow supplemental...
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Tue, May 01 2018 4:50 PM
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Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 63 Walgreens & Fedex partnership, Verily’s adherence program, & more!
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I get festive for the holidays. In this episode, Jess asks me about Walgreens and its new partnership with FedEx for next day prescription delivery and with Verily to help patients with prescription adherence. She...
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Fri, Dec 21 2018 9:11 AM
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Can Supportiv fill the mental health peer support gap?
By MATTHEW HOLT As promised I’m going to be featuring more interesting companies I’m working with on THCB. Supportiv, which is launching today in beta (App store/Play) is a thoroughly modern answer to the problem of scaling peer support in...
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Tue, Jun 12 2018 9:00 AM
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(More) Madness in Massachusetts
By Daniel Palestrant, MD Lately I have been watching with complete horror the events playing out in my home state of Massachusetts. A bill currently under review by the state legislature will make participation in the state and federal Medicare/Medicaid...
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Thu, Apr 22 2010 4:00 PM
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Mike Barber, GE Healthymagination
Last week thanks to the munificence of the RWJ Pioneer Fund (thanks Steve, Paul & team!), I spent a few days at the TEDMED conference in the Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego (famous for its role pretending to be... Read More...
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Tue, Nov 02 2010 1:34 AM
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Value-Based Government (GACRA)
By MICHAEL BANKS, MD We decided that if MACRA is good for physicians, then the same thinking is probably a pretty good idea for the US government. We need Value-Based Government. It’s clear that past methods of paying for US Government services...
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Sat, Aug 20 2016 3:07 AM
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Twitter-Based Medicine: How Social Media is Changing the Public’s View of Medicine
By BENJAMIN MAZER, MD Doctors can be two-faced. This isn’t necessarily a negative attribute. Doctors have distinct personas for our patients and our colleagues. With patients, doctors strive for a compassionate but authoritative role. However, with each...
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Tue, Apr 17 2018 6:09 AM
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The Barbershop Study: How an Unorthodox Study on Black Men’s Health Brought Down the House
By ANISH KOKA, MD The study that changed everything was published last week. An alien visiting the national cardiology meeting in Orlando may have thought that the trial of note was the one that featured the culmination of one hundred years of lipid research...
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Wed, Mar 21 2018 11:59 AM
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Health Savings Accounts: Are Lawmakers Being Target-ed or Amazon-ed?
By NIRAN AL AGBA, MD Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) allow individuals to use pre-tax dollars to pay for high deductibles and other uncovered medical expenses. Currently, individuals are ineligible for tax-advantaged HSA contributions if they have “other...
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Mon, Mar 26 2018 4:39 PM
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