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After the American Health Care Act

BY JOHN IRVINE I asked THCB’s editors and bloggers for their reactions to Friday’s news. DANIEL STONE, MD The late UCLA Professor Richard Brown, once commented that the Clinton healthcare initiative failed because the status quo was everyone...

Published Sun, Mar 26 2017 7:08 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, John Irvine

They’re Taking Selfies in the Streets …

BY JOHN IRVINE Filed under: Worth 10,000 words. Taken as word of the Trump administration’s decision to pull the AHCA broke Friday afternoon, a selfie by Sean Patrick Maloney (D-Cold Spring) @RepSeanMaloney quickly went viral on Twitter. Read More...

Published Sun, Mar 26 2017 6:23 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Trump, AHCA, Repealed + Replaced, Sean Patrick Maloney, Black Friday

The Child Sexual Abuse Conspiracy

BY DAVID INTROCASO (After this essay was submitted to THCB the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on March 28th titled, “Protecting Young Athletes From Sexual Abuse.” USA Gymnastics refused to appear and provide testimony likely, in...

Published Fri, Mar 31 2017 8:45 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Solutions That Will Be Essential for the Future of Healthcare

By ROBERTO ASCIANO We are living in an age where thousands upon thousands of individuals and companies are trying to find faster, better and cheaper ways to get things done leveraging the latest digital technologies. We are so completely surrounded by...

Published Mon, Apr 03 2017 2:10 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Speaker, Roberto Asciano, Health 2.0 Europe

Key Mechanisms That Define Health City Cayman Islands’ Value Innovation

By VIDAR JORGENSEN and BRIAN KLEPPER Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI), less than three years old and located in the Caribbean just an hour’s flight south from Miami, is a 104-bed hospital outpost of Bangalore, India-headquartered Narayana Health (NH...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2017 8:46 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

You’ve Got Facility Fees!

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD In a beautiful community on the Olympic peninsula, just north of where I live and practice, it happened again; another private clinic sold to a large medical corporation. Peninsula Children’s Clinic was a bustling pediatric office...

Published Fri, Apr 07 2017 9:57 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Peninsula Children's Clinic, Facility Fees, Washington state

MedPAC finally concedes MACRA’s MIPS program can’t work

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD It’s official: the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has at long last decided that MACRA’s MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) can’t work. MedPAC reached this decision at its January 12 and March 2, 2017 meetings...

Published Tue, Apr 11 2017 11:06 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, MACRA, Kip Sullivan, MIPS, MedPAC

Protection? Fairness? Hardly.

By ART CAPLAN and ZACHARY CAPLAN The American Health Care Act (aka Trumpcare or Ryancare) failed because it was patched together and would have imperiled insurance benefits for millions of the neediest Americans. Two other health care related bills –...

Published Fri, Apr 14 2017 5:33 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Trumpcare, Amercian Health Care Act

The 401W: A Wellness Program Even Al Lewis Could Love

By AL LEWIS I’ve been quite vocal about supporting only wellness done for employees and not to them…but what if there could be a “conventional” wellness program – even including screening, HRAs etc. – that both you and I could love? People manage what...

Published Mon, Apr 17 2017 5:35 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Health 2.0 has something important to tell you

By INDU SUBAIYA and MATTHEW HOLT Important news about my day job at Health 2.0 from my partner Indu Subaiya and me! You can also see the press release here and watch a video discussion with HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber—Matthew Holt Indu and Matthew are...

Published Wed, Apr 19 2017 2:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, HIMSS 2011, Indu Subaiya

We're No. 37? Maybe Not ...

By MERRILL GOOZNER Phil Musgrove, now at Health Affairs, was an editor at the World Health Organization when it compiled its international comparison of nations' health status that ranked the U.S. 37th in the world, largely because of its poor......

Published Thu, Apr 22 2010 8:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software

By David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Brian Klepper, PhD Clinical Groupware is rapidly gaining acceptance as a term describing a new class of affordable, ergonomic, and Web-based care management tools. Since David first articulated Clinical Groupware's conceptual...

Published Sat, Apr 24 2010 3:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Doing it on the radio? Yes we can!

By Matthew Holt Last week Indu and I were on the Patient Power show run by Andrew Schorr and Peter Frishauf (who is an old friend and founded Medscape). It's a show aimed at consumers and we're very interested in... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 10:52 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Lisa Girion is a hero

By Matthew Holt One reporter changed the behavior of every health plan in California all by herself. Even before Tuesday's announcements, however, health insurers in California had all but stopped the number of policy cancellations, state records...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 1:47 PM by The Health Care Blog

To Know and Be Known

By ROB LAMBERTS I was happy when I looked at today’s schedule. Two husband and wife pairs were on my schedule, both of whom have been seeing me for over ten years. Their visits are comfortable for me; we talk... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 6:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

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After the American Health Care Act

They’re Taking Selfies in the Streets …

The Child Sexual Abuse Conspiracy

Solutions That Will Be Essential for the Future of Healthcare

Key Mechanisms That Define Health City Cayman Islands’ Value Innovation

You’ve Got Facility Fees!

MedPAC finally concedes MACRA’s MIPS program can’t work

Protection? Fairness? Hardly.

The 401W: A Wellness Program Even Al Lewis Could Love

Health 2.0 has something important to tell you

We're No. 37? Maybe Not ...

Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software

Doing it on the radio? Yes we can!

Lisa Girion is a hero

To Know and Be Known