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EMR and the Falling Patient

By STEVE SANDERS, DO Is Mom at risk of falling? Electronic medical records (EMR) efficiently capture physician’s keystrokes—yes or no—to this question and tuck it along side other data about our so–called medical lives.The physician’s judgment has to...

Published Thu, Jan 20 2011 1:20 PM by The Health Care Blog

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 48

Jessica DaMassa asks me about Cricket Health’s $24m raise for kidney disease services, Rx.Health from Mount Sinai and a whole bunch of big money in little China. All in 2 minutes–Matthew Holt Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 05 2018 9:15 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Ping An, good doctor, Ashish Atreja, Jianke Pharmacy, WeDoctor, Rx.Health, cricket health

Maine Waiver Expected to Increase Insurer Pressures on States

By ROGER COLLIER HHS’s bellwether decision of last week to grant the State of Maine a three-year waiver from the medical loss ratio provision of the ACA may lead to new efforts by insurers across the country to persuade states to demand similar waivers...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 3:52 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Roger Collier, Affordable Care Act, Waivers, The States

Competing With Urgent Care

By MARC-DAVID MUNK, MD About seven years ago, the California Healthcare Roundtable and HealthAffairs sat down to prepare a white paper on the emerging “phenomenon” of urgent care centers, and what it might mean for primary care. At the time the group...

Published Fri, Jan 02 2015 8:28 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, primary care, Mark-David Munk, urgent care, American Academy of Urgent Care

Single Payer Health: It’s Only Fair

By SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS The United States is the only major nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care as a right to its people. Meanwhile, we spend about twice as much per capita on health care and, in a wide number of instances...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 8:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, health care reform, Single payer, American Health Security Act, Bernie Sanders

HIT Trends Summary for April 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends report for April 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. Europe. European progress reports on HIT show us that it’s evolving along many similar lines to current US efforts. One report...

Published Wed, May 04 2011 12:26 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: CMS, Michael Lake, Tech, Incentives, European HIT, EHR vendors

How to Blow the Big One: A Methodology

By JOE FLOWER [Note to the reader: Anything that is in italics and square brackets (such as this note) is addressed to you, personally. Yes, you. Try it on, see if it fits.] Healthcare has, right now, the greatest opportunity we have seen in our lifetimes...

Published Sat, May 21 2011 5:54 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Joe Flower, Healthcare system, Methodology

Medicare, Medicaid Get Squeezed in Ryan Plan

By MERRILL GOOZNER Everyone agrees that controlling health care costs is the key to bringing long-term federal budget deficits under control. Government spending on Medicare for seniors and Medicaid for the poor has grown nearly twice as fast as the rest...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 2:13 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, Merrill Goozner, Medicaid, Ryan-Rivlin plan

Ryan’s Proposal For Medicare

By MAGGIE MAHAR Representative Paul Ryan (R. Wisconsin) thinks he has found a solution to Medicare inflation. The cost of Medicare has been spiraling for years, thanks to the climbing cost of virtually every product and service in our health care system...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2011 12:27 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

The Patient Safety Movement Turns Ten

By BOB WACHTER On December 1, 1999, the Institute of Medicine released a report entitled To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Although its authors hoped to spark a national movement, they had little cause for optimism. After... Read More....

Published Wed, Dec 02 2009 3:33 AM by The Health Care Blog

THCB @ HIMSS11

This week we’ll be reporting live from HIMSS11 in Orlando. We’ll have backstage access to some of the biggest names at the conference, plus posts by surprise guests. Coverage from the show is underwritten by Xerox Corporation, with areas of focus...

Published Mon, Feb 21 2011 4:39 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page

New Cures! Faster! Faster!

By DEREK LOWE, PHD I wrote here the other day about the NIH’s new translational medicine plans. The New York Times article that brought this to wide attention didn’t go over well with director Francis Collins, who ended up trying to disabuse...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 3:35 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Op-Ed, NIH, Drug development, Front Page, Derek Lowe

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