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Sorry, been busy!

You may have noticed that I haven’t been hanging around THCB much this week so far. Well I have a great excuse. This is my wife Amanda and our new daughter Colette. She was born on Sunday at 6 am and mom and baby are doing very well! Tweet this...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 5:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, micro

A Mother’s Day Manifesto: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat

By AMY BERMAN I’ve been writing about safe and effective maternity care for years and direct a coordinated national effort to transform maternity care, but this is a post where the political gets personal. Last weekend, I attended the birthday party for...

Published Tue, May 03 2011 1:06 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Uncategorized

Turf Wars

By MICHAEL KIRSCH, MD So many folks express views that are obviously self-serving, but they try to masquerade them as altruistic positions that benefit some other constituency. These attempts usually fool no one, but yet these performances are common...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 3:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Politics, Michael Kirsch, Turf battles

EHR Redux

By by DAVID C. KIBBE It's time to revive the discussion of electronic health record software in light of the new federal regulations that define criteria for meaningful use and also set criteria for the EHR technologies that must be... Read More....

Published Sun, Feb 07 2010 7:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Electronic Medical Records

Productivity? In Healthcare?

By JOE FLOWER Obamacare is built on the assumption that healthcare can be more productive, that we can squeeze more health per dollar out to the system that is built to give it to us. Practically everything I write is based on the same idea — big time...

Published Fri, Jun 05 2015 12:04 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Uncategorized

Health DataPalooza 2015: The Download

By STEVE FINDLAY Health Datapalooza once again lived up to its reputation as the liveliest and most eclectic health IT confabs of the year. Energetic and sleek young entrepreneurs mingled with government bureaucrats, academic types, consultants, current...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2015 7:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Bridging the Gap between MUS2 and Patient Engagement Through Appointment Reminders

By MOLLY MALOOF, MD Medical technology has undergone dramatic changes in the last 10 years. Right now, I make and cancel appointments, get prescriptions filled, look at test results, pay bills and email my doctor—all from my computer. I track multiple...

Published Thu, Jun 11 2015 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Small Practice

Plan B

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI With word that the House is likely to take up the repeal of the health insurance industry anti-trust exemption it is now clear the Democratic leadership has begun Plan B. It is also clear that this is... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 6:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Why Calculators Are the Future of Healthcare

By THOMAS GOETZ Want to know the future of medicine and healthcare in one sentence? For my money, it goes like this: The real opportunity in healthcare is to combine our personal data with the huge amount of general biomedical... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 5:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Thomas Goetz

Laboratories of Democracy, Part 2

By MERRILL GOOZNER Experimentation in how states would move toward universal health care coverage was written into the DNA of the Affordable Care Act. The law allowed any state to petition for a waiver that would enable it to enact its own brand of reform...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2011 9:57 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Merrill Goozner, Front Page, Obamacare, Repeal, Waivers

What Went Wrong?

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD It’s been a very slow week in my office. Today we almost pitched a no-hitter, having only one patient come in toward the end of the day. Overall, we’ve been quiet in nearly every way – few phone calls, few patients...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2015 10:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Tough Talk

By PAUL LEVY Some people at the University of Washington and colleagues from around the country run a wonderful website called Tough Talk: Helping Doctors Approach Difficult Conversations. They call it a “toolbox for medical educators” who...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 7:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Paul Levy, academic medical centers, Teaching

A Culture of Overtreatment

JACK COCHRAN, MD & CHARLES KENNEY The Dallas/Fort Worth Healthcare Daily ran a fascinating excerpt from the Steve Jacob’s book So Long, Marcus Welby, M.D.* The excerpt contained some very interesting assertions and statistics. For example: Consultant...

Published Fri, Nov 14 2014 7:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Patient Safety, Overtreatment, liability, Malpractice, PwC

Advice to Vivek Murthy: Be Nonpartisan, Use Common Sense and Move Americans

By SAURABH JHA, MD In defiance of dire predictions, children haven’t been sent to workhouses and women haven’t been chained to utensils after the GOP gained strength in the House and the Senate. And Vivek Murthy, the unabashed Obamaphile, was finally...

Published Thu, Dec 18 2014 9:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, public health, Surgeon General, Gun Control, Project Locomotion, Vivek Murthy

Your Money or Your Wife

By JD Kleinke Talk about perfect timing. Just as the last “death panel” falsettos fade into the droning no-government- takeover chorus, along come those “faceless government bureaucrats” from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force to stop the music...

Published Fri, Dec 11 2009 7:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

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