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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

Why Christians Should Support Health Care Rationing

By CHARLES CAMOSY It's coming. Health care reform, Round II. Republicans pledged to do it as part of their manifesto during the midterm election campaigns. And House Speaker John Boehner, less than a day after the elections, vowed that the... Read...

Published Sun, Jan 09 2011 9:44 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

Rise of the Machines

By SHIRIE LENG, MD “We are convinced the machine can do better than human anesthesiologists.” This statement was made by a doctor. Not only a doctor but an anesthesiologist. Not just an anesthesiologist but a pediatric anesthesiologist. Not just...

Published Fri, Jul 31 2015 7:03 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Shirie Leng

The State of the Union--And the Economy: Why We Need Health Care Reform Now

By Maggie Mahar According to the headlines, 10 percent of Americans are unemployed. The truth is that closer to 17 percent of the population cannot find full-time work; this number includes workers who have become discouraged and have given up... Read...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 2:50 PM by The Health Care Blog

HIT Newser: Millions and Millions for More Interoperbility

By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM Athenahealth Pushes Further Into the Inpatient World Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center partners with athenahealth to enhance its homegrown in-patient EHR. Athenahealth is buying Beth Israel’s clinical applications...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2015 6:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Uncategorized, HIT Newser

To Know and Be Known

By ROB LAMBERTS I was happy when I looked at today’s schedule. Two husband and wife pairs were on my schedule, both of whom have been seeing me for over ten years. Their visits are comfortable for me; we talk... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 6:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Surprise

By BRIAN KLEPPER Check out this March 3rd article - click here - from the recent HIMSS conference, in which Dave Garets, President and CEO of HIMSS Analytics,"gazes into the future and predicts major trends for the next 12 months."... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 12:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Evidence-Based Health Reform

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE President Trump campaigned on making health care better, cheaper and available to all Americans, regardless of ability to pay. Once Mr. Trump was safely in the White House, the Republican thought leaders in Congress were quick to...

Published Sun, Mar 26 2017 6:54 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Patient-Centered Health Record

By PETER ELIAS, MD The other night I participated in a very useful Google+ hangout with Adrian Gropper, Michael Mascia and Michael Chen. The discussion focused on a subject I think is incredibly important: the patient-centered health record. Unfortunately...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2016 8:17 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Peter Elias

Healthcare’s Perpetual War

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE There are three visions of peace in the seemingly never ending, but really rather brief, Israeli-Palestinian perpetual crisis. One peace features two independent countries living in collaborative harmony on a piece of land approximately...

Published Mon, Sep 28 2015 5:39 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Margalit Gur-Arie, Power and Material Prosperity, the future of medicine, religious beliefs

Mau-Mauing the Medical Loss Ratio

By JOHN GRAHAM Senator Max Baucus recently admitted that he never read the new health care law. But that hasn’t stopped him from trying to re-write it after the fact, in a way that would drive more health plans from... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 8:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

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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

Why Christians Should Support Health Care Rationing

Comprehensiveness is Killing Primary Care

Rise of the Machines

The State of the Union--And the Economy: Why We Need Health Care Reform Now

HIT Newser: Millions and Millions for More Interoperbility

To Know and Be Known

The Surprise

Evidence-Based Health Reform

The Patient-Centered Health Record

Healthcare’s Perpetual War

Mau-Mauing the Medical Loss Ratio