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The Ultimate Sacrifice
By JOHN MAA, MD An estimated 60% of American bankruptcies result from overwhelming medical costs. My uncle’s tale illuminates the dual tragedy of suffering catastrophic illness and being uninsured. The 2008 recession claimed my uncle’s job, health benefits...
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Sun, Mar 06 2011 7:36 PM
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One of Those Patients
By ROB LAMBERTS, MD “I’ve been getting winded lately.” He’s a middle-aged man with diabetes. This kind of thing is a “red flag” on certain patients. He’s one of those patients. “When does it happen?”...
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Thu, Mar 05 2015 9:59 PM
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When It Comes to Patient Safety, Caution Isn’t a Four-letter Word
By JORGO CHATZIMARKAKIS Around the world and now in the United States, there is a broadening discussion of how best to proceed down the path of approving and getting to market medicines called biosimilars. Biosimilars are non-identical copies of next...
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Wed, May 18 2011 2:59 PM
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You want yer 2015 predictions?
Gautam Gulati crowdsourced a whole lot of predictions by asking health care types what they expected to see in 2015, and you can see them all on his site. Mine is above–Matthew Holt Read More...
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Fri, Jan 02 2015 1:52 PM
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A (Lower Cost) Healthcare Industry to Deal With a (Higher Cost) Healthcare Industry
By MARC-DAVID MUNK, MD I was recently on the phone with a medical device company executive who was describing his company’s efforts to develop a non-invasive diagnostic device that could quantify the degree of cirrhosis in a patient with liver illness...
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Tue, Aug 11 2015 9:45 AM
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Averting the Ax at AHRQ
By MICHAEL MILLENSEN Congress is infected with the budget-cutting bug, and building an effective immune system requires political savvy. Sometimes, it’s simple (“We bomb terrorists” or “We process Social Security checks”), but sometimes an agency struggles...
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Sun, Jun 21 2015 5:58 AM
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THCB Thanks Our Sponsors
THCBist THCB thanks our corporate supporters. eClinicalWorks. The Most Powerful Cloud Solution On Your PC, Phone and iPad. Learn more: visit eClinicalWorks.com. Or follow us on Twitter @eClinicalWorks. Read More...
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Wed, Nov 12 2014 8:59 AM
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By MATTHEW HOLT THCB’s coverage of national healthcare policy, technology and the business of healthcare would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors.Today’s edition of THCB is brought to you by HealthCatalyst: The Data...
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Tue, Jul 07 2015 9:41 AM
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Is it 2013 (or 2014) Yet?
By J.D. Kleinke Nope, it’s only 2010 – a new year to be sure, as evidenced by stabilizing home prices and normalizing presidential approval ratings. But you can stop holding your organization’s breath, slow down the conversion of that emergency... Read...
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Tue, Jan 05 2010 7:44 AM
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Oh Those Evil Law Suits!
By JIM PURCELL My wife of 47 years likes to tell of her travails after having married me. She claims she had no inkling that I would specialize in despised career choices. Right after we were married, I served as an infantry airborne officer in Viet Nam...
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Thu, Jul 14 2016 3:37 PM
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An EHR-Driven Checklist Manifesto
By JOHN HALAMKA, MD Boston Physician Atul Gawande wrote The Checklist Manifesto in 2009 stressing that medicine should adopt “pilot’s checklists” to ensure that operating room teams are “ready for takeoff” before a scalpel is ever opened. Here’s the Read...
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Tue, Jul 05 2016 9:28 AM
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Hobson’s Wrong Answer
By JIM PURCELL Thomas Hobson was his name, a licensed carrier of passengers, letters, and parcels between Cambridge and London in the years surrounding 1600. He kept horses for such purpose, and rented them when he wasn’t using them. Naturally, the students...
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Thu, Apr 06 2017 2:00 PM
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2018 Forecast: Another Theranos, Hospital Hiring Slows & Successful HIT Exits
By BOB KOCHER, MD and BRYAN ROBERTS For what is now an annual tradition, we are once again attempting to be healthcare soothsayers. We are proud to share with you our 10 healthcare predictions for 2018. In 2017, amaz-ingly, eight of our predictions came...
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Tue, Feb 13 2018 10:23 AM
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A Permanent "Doc-Fix" Remains Elusive
By NAOMI FREUNDLICH For now, all those physicians who threatened to make a mass exodus from Medicare can take a breather. Last week, the House voted to once again delay the mandated 21% cut in physician fees by another six... Read More...
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Mon, Jul 05 2010 3:30 AM
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Health 2.0 Europe Conference Videos
By Matthew Holt On April 6-7, 2010, Health 2.0, in collaboration with Basil Strategies, held the Health 2.0 Europe Conference in Paris, France. At long last Health 2.0 has posted the videos from this conference ( translating geek speak about... Read More...
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Mon, Aug 23 2010 4:29 PM
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