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Letter From London

By BOB WACHTER, MD I’ve just returned from a few days in London, scoping things out for a planned sabbatical next fall. In what may be a pale echo of the late Alistair Cooke’s always fascinating “Letters From America,” here... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 8:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Bob Wachter, primary care

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 30

Jessica DaMassa asks me about Jonathan Bush’s exit and the future of Athenahealth, celebrity suicide and the future of mental health apps, and who Amazon/Buffet/Chase should choose to be their CEO — Matthew Holt Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 11 2018 2:23 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Jonathan Bush, Amazon, athenahealth, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Ableto, Anthony Bourdain, Suicide, Supportiv, Lantern, Kate Spade, Chase, Berkshire Hathaway

Not Fake News! A Trump Administration Rule Models Government Civility

By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON A Trump administration regulation issued just hours before the partial federal shutdown offers quiet hope for civility in government. What happened, on its face, was simple: an update of the rules governing a particular Medicare...

Published Wed, Jan 09 2019 6:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Michael Millenson, CMS, ACOs, ACA, Health policy, Trump

Where is Relationship, Authority, and Trust in Health Care Today?

By HANS DUVEFELT MD Healthcare is on a different trajectory from most other businesses today. It’s a little hard to understand why. In business, mass market products and services have always competed on price or perceived quality. Think Walmart or Mercedes...

Published Fri, Dec 28 2018 8:03 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, primary care, ACOs, Healthcare costs, Hans Duvefelt, doctor/ patient relationship, healthcare quality

A Tale of Two Doctors

By ROBERT MCNUTT, MD Data is not always the path to identifying good medicine. Quality and cost measures should not be perceived as “scores,” because the health care process is neither simplistic nor deterministic; it involves as much art and perception...

Published Fri, Nov 03 2017 8:56 AM by THCB

Filed under: Quality, Data, Uncategorized, Decision-making, Utlilization, echocardiogram, Variations

The DNA Tool That You Must See

Most people have no way of accessing DNA-powered insights about themselves, and no way to store and use their genome in ways that they control. Technology for Precision Health Summit demoer Helix solves that by providing the world’s first online...

Published Tue, Nov 07 2017 9:36 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Patients, Tech, Featured, THCBist, Trending

Hotlines Aren’t Enough to Help People at Risk of Suicide

By CARA ANGELOTTA MD Contrary to popular belief, the risk of suicide does not increase around the holidays. But, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, annual suicide rates in the U.S. have risen nearly 30 percent since 1999. Much...

Published Fri, Dec 14 2018 8:01 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, public health, Health policy, Cara Angelotta, suicide epidemic, suicide prevention, suicide hotlines

Overprescribing Is a Key Component of the Opioid Crisis — Here’s How to Stop It

By DAVE CHASE Today’s opioid crisis is one of the most dire side effects driven by our dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system. A recent JAMA Surgery report found that many surgeons prescribe four times more opioids than their patients use. This opens the...

Published Tue, Jan 29 2019 8:27 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, value-based care, Dave Chase, Opioid epidemic

American Healthcare X

By RONALD PIES, MD “A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.” ~Samuel Johnson “Joe” has been on the streets now for two months. He’s 35, unmarried, and diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia since age 19. His... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 06 2010 3:29 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Health care costs, Ronald Pies

On the Morality of Insurance Premiums

By ANISH KOKA, MD As CVS-Aetna merger talks fill the air this Christmas season and experts weigh in on the impact this will have on the economy and consumers alike, I’m sitting at a little desk in a little office contemplating health insurance....

Published Mon, Dec 11 2017 11:14 AM by THCB

Filed under: ACA, Uncategorized, Anish Koka, CVS-Aetna, IRS

The ACA: Quality Improvement vs Quantity Improvement

By ABRAAR KARAN, MD One of the main goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), perhaps second only to improving access, was to improve the quality of care in our health system. Now several years out, we are at a point where we can ask some difficult questions...

Published Fri, Oct 14 2016 8:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: Quality, ACA, Uncategorized, HRRP, Abraar Karan, HVBP, HACRP

Kenzen’s ECHO Smart Patch Uses Data Improve Health For Users

Innovation in healthcare tech has seen a major influx in recent years given the continued growth in wearables and the potential for the use of data analytics to improve health. Kenzen is making a difference by creating a wearable smart device enabled...

Published Mon, Oct 23 2017 9:50 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Tech, Featured, THCBist

Watching Obamacare Die

By KIP SULLIVAN It’s hard to know what “Trumpcare” is, but whether it’s “repeal” or “repeal and replace with something terrific,” it was and is going to fail. It was either going to fail to be enacted by...

Published Thu, Jul 20 2017 2:53 PM by THCB

Filed under: ACA, Uncategorized, Kip Sullivan, Trumpacare

Please support Charles Gaba at ACASignups

By CHARLES GABBA It’s pretty rare that I ask THCB readers to go over to another blog and support that blog with money BUT, today is the day to do that. Charles Gabba has been THE leading source of information about exactly who is signing up for...

Published Sun, Oct 14 2018 3:45 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Politics, ACA, Obamacare, ACA Database, Trump, Charles Gaba

Creative Minds: Building a Better Electronic Health Record

By Dr. FRANCIS COLLINS Is 5 too few and 40 too many? That’s one of many questions that researcher David Chan is asking about the clinical reminders embedded into those electronic health record (EHR) systems increasingly used at your doctor’s office or...

Published Thu, May 28 2015 7:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, NIH

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