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What Does Congressional Gridlock Mean for the Rest of the Country?

By AMY LONG and JOE MOLLOY Often, a Congressional gridlock is essentially good. This is because the executive arm of government is forced to consider a bipartisan approach to issues if it’s to secure the approval of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress...

Published Tue, Dec 18 2018 10:13 AM by THCB

Filed under: Congress, Politics, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Health policy, Trump, Midterm Elections, Amy Long, Joe Molloy, Congressional gridlock

The Importance of Patient Engagement in Post-Acute Care

By BRIAN HOLZER MD, MBA Leaders in hospitals and health systems as well as post-acute care providers such as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and Home Health Care (HHC) agencies operate in a complex environment. Currently, the health care reimbursement...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2018 6:28 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, ACOs, Health policy, patient engagement, value-based care, health innovation, Brian Holzer, post-acute care

Saving Health Care, Saving America

By BRIAN KLEPPER, DAVID C. KIBBE, ROBERT LASZEWSKI and ALAIN ENTHOVEN So far, Congress' response to the health care crisis has been alarmingly disappointing in three ways. First, by willingly accepting enormous sums from health care special interests...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 6:08 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, Reform, Policy/Politics, Policy, Transparency, Current Affairs, Marketplace, primary care, Corruption, The Industry

Senate Health Care Reform: Two Huge Problems, One Giant Red Herring

By ROGER COLLIER Pity poor Senator Harry Reid. Not only is he facing an uphill reelection fight in Nevada, but as Majority Leader, he must reconcile the health care reform bills from the Finance and the Health, Education, Labor and... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2009 12:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: The Public Option, Roger Collier

Five Things Hospitals and Health Systems Have to Get Good at Fast

By JOE FLOWER There is a way to avoid a collapse of healthcare in this country. It’s getting scary. We are facing, before the end of this decade, a bifurcated future. The way things are going now—with the economy wheezing,... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 6:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Comprehensiveness is Killing Primary Care

By HANS DUVEFELT In most other human activities there are two speeds, fast and slow. Usually, one dominates. Think firefighting versus bridge design. Healthcare spans from one extreme to the other. Think Code Blue versus diabetes care. Primary Care was...

Published Fri, Aug 24 2018 9:06 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, primary care, primary care practices, quality mandates

Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: November 2018

By BISHAL GYAWALI MD Keynote speech There was a very sobering piece in NEJM by the FDA last month in which the authors try to explore what went wrong with the Keynote-183, Keynote-185 and checkmate 602 trials testing PD-1 inhibitors combinations with...

Published Mon, Dec 17 2018 6:49 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, pharmaceuticals, FDA, Clinical Trials, Oncology, Bishal Gyawali, Cancer drugs, PD-1 inhibitors, cancer immunotherapy

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 60

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I report from a hedgehog cafe in Tokyo. In this episode, Jess asks me about Bright Health’s $200 million raise and the significance of Amazon’s new EMR product. We also talk about Health 2.0 Asia-Japan, which is...

Published Tue, Dec 04 2018 8:49 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Wellness, Personalized Medicine, Amazon, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Blockchain, Bright Health

New Study: Medicare’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients

By KIP SULLIVAN JD On the morning of December 21, I opened my copy of the New York Times to find an op-ed that said almost exactly what I had said in a two-part article The Health Care Blog posted two weeks earlier. The op-ed criticized the Hospital Readmissions...

Published Tue, Jan 08 2019 7:46 AM by THCB

Filed under: Congress, Medicare, CMS, Politics, value-based care, Kip Sullivan, MedPAC, Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Health Care-Related Public-Private Partnerships Will Likely Become the Norm in 2019

By MARY SCOTT NABERS The United States ranks number one in the world for health care spending as a percentage of GDP. That sounds great… but, for instance, Texas ranks only 11th worldwide when it comes to performance. That’s because of access to care...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2018 6:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: Hospitals, The Business of Health Care, public-private partnerships, health innovation, health spending, Mary Scott Nabers, health care partnerships, P3, U.S. health spending

From EHR to Paper to EHR .. to Paper??

By HANS DUVEFELT, MD I can’t help myself from telling patients how things really work in health care. But I feel they have a right to know. When I see new patients their jaw usually drops when I sit down with them next to the computer with a stack of...

Published Tue, Apr 10 2018 12:09 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

MyFitnessPal and the State of Data Privacy in America

By JASON CHUNG This week MyFitnessPal announced that it had suffered a massive security breach which exposed or compromised 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts. Data that is affected included usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords. Luckily for...

Published Fri, Mar 30 2018 5:06 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Tapeworms are Hungry for Direct Primary Care

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD When Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan (AmBerGan) announced their healthcare partnership, Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett declared “the ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy.” He...

Published Fri, Apr 13 2018 8:13 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Venture Capitalism & Radiology

By SAURABH JHA MD Can radiologists make their way to Silicon Valley? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line, Ajay Kohli MD, a physician entrepreneur, explains what it takes to make a medical app. Listen to our conversation here. Saurabh Jha is a contributing...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2019 6:56 AM by THCB

Filed under: Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, Radiology Firing Line Podcast, Start-Ups, medical apps, physician entrepreneur

AHA’s FutureScan Publication Available Now

Out this week is the AHA (or more precisely their SHSMD division’s) Futurescan publication. This year it’s edited by futurist Ian Morrison @seccurve and it features a bevvy of forecasting articles including one called “Flipping the Stack...

Published Fri, Jan 25 2019 9:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Tech, Health Care Books, AHA

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What Does Congressional Gridlock Mean for the Rest of the Country?

The Importance of Patient Engagement in Post-Acute Care

Saving Health Care, Saving America

Senate Health Care Reform: Two Huge Problems, One Giant Red Herring

Five Things Hospitals and Health Systems Have to Get Good at Fast

Comprehensiveness is Killing Primary Care

Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: November 2018

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 60

New Study: Medicare’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients

Health Care-Related Public-Private Partnerships Will Likely Become the Norm in 2019

From EHR to Paper to EHR .. to Paper??

MyFitnessPal and the State of Data Privacy in America

The Tapeworms are Hungry for Direct Primary Care

Venture Capitalism & Radiology

AHA’s FutureScan Publication Available Now