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By ROB LAMBERTS, MD I went to a patient’s funeral this past weekend. I generally don’t do that for people whose relationship I’ve built in the exam room. It’s a complex set of emotions, but invariably some family member will... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 5:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, Rob Lamberts

Interview with David Hale

By Matthew Holt In this interview captured at the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 10, 2010 David Hale, project manager at the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health talks about his vision for the future... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 21 2010 11:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Conferences

My Side

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD I was planning on leaving behind the seriousness of the past few posts and going back to my usual inane writing, but some of the comments have made it too hard for me to keep quiet.... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 1:34 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Rob Lamberts

What if All Americans Had at Least Catastrophic Health Care Coverage?

By ED PULLEN, MD I really dislike the term healthcare reform. I think our system needs to be changed not reformed. I assume that I am not the only person who suspects that the recent health care reform act is... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 3:10 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: health care reform, Ed Pullen

Interview with Jon White

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington Conference, June 07, 2010, Jon White, Health IT Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), gave brief interview. He spoke about patient's healthcare and how Health IT......

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 1:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Reactor Panel: Health 2.0 Goes to Washington

By Matthew Holt In final panel at Health 2.0 Goes to Washington the reactor panel, Will Yu (ONC), Esther Dyson (EDventure) and Chris Schroeder(Healthcentral) discussed health issues, and innovation in the healthcare system with Matthew Holt. Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 1:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Technology Showcase: Health 2.0 Tools for Consumers

By Matthew Holt This is the technology showcase of communities and consumer tools from Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7, 2010, It includes Greg Fitzgerald from HealthCentral, Howard Steinberg from dLife, representing communities, with Ellen Badinelli...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 3:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

Interview with Aneesh Chopra

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Washington DC Conference on June 7, 2010 we captured this interview with Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 31 2010 12:09 PM by The Health Care Blog

If Insurers Thought the Public Plan Was A Threat

By MERRILL GOOZNER Check out this study from the Healthcare Performance Management Institute, a business-backed think tank that promotes self-insurance among employers. The survey claims that insurance companies are refusing to provide employers with...

Published Mon, Aug 02 2010 6:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

The New Rules for Insurance Appeals Under PPACA

BY KATHERINE MATOS On July 22, the Obama Administration released interim final rules that allow patient appeals of health insurance coverage decisions as required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (”PPACA”) and Health Care and Education...

Published Tue, Aug 03 2010 5:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Public Is More Savvy than Harris Polltakers

By JOHN C. GOODMAN National Center for Policy Analysis President & Kellye Wright Fellow Are the nation’s polltakers part of a surreptitious plot to convince us that what’s good for us is bad and what’s bad is good? A new... Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 04 2010 12:58 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: health care reform, John Goodman

Remembering the Tonsillectomy Riots

By MICHAEL MILLENSON The humble tonsillectomy has been at the center of controversies over practice variation, inappropriate surgery and avoidable harm for decades; indeed, well before the terms to describe those problems were formally articulated. Now...

Published Thu, Sep 02 2010 7:22 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Europe: Pew Internet Project Demonstration

By Bianca Grogan Susannah Fox from Pew Internet Project gave a demonstration at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference, April 6-7,2010, in Paris France. The Pew Internet project is a non-profit research organization based in Washington DC that studies the social...

Published Sat, Sep 04 2010 1:01 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Europe: Physicians and Online Communities

By Bianca Grogan A panel discussion at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference, April 6-7, 2010, in Paris, France, that compare and contrast market approaches and results of physician social network. Each panelist gave a demonstration about their company and...

Published Sun, Sep 05 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

The trifecta: Reform idiocy, Hospital CEOs and the Obesity Problem

By Matthew Holt It's rare that you get such a delicious health care story combining human frailty, blindness and multiple stereotypes, but Julie Rovner of NPR found it. In fact I literally thought she’d been set up but she confirmed... Read More....

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 1:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Hospitals, Humor

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