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Genetic Testing, Fact or Fiction: You Be the Judge

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Which of these two events is fact and which is fiction? Organizations representing employers and health plans call for a moratorium on implementation of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, asserting that the new rules could...

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 12:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Five Years of Failing Patients

By ANGELO VOLANDES, MD Although this March marked the fifth anniversary of passage of the Affordable Care Act many of its promises to place patients at the center of care remain elusive. No where is this more evident than in the law’s provision to improve...

Published Fri, Apr 17 2015 5:01 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

MyFitnessPal Works If You Use It

By MIKE LEE You may have seen some news regarding a study MyFitnessPal recently did with UCLA. I wanted to take a minute to address this study, since we participated in it directly. We are excited that we got to work with some very smart people to answer...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2014 9:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Quantified Self, MyFitnessPal, Tracking, Mike Lee, Apps, fitness

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mitt

By ROBERT REICH One of my regrets in life is losing the chance to debate Mitt Romney and whip his ass. It was the fall of 2002. Mitt had thundered into Massachusetts with enough money to grab the Republican nomination for governor. Meanwhile, I was doing...

Published Tue, May 10 2011 6:50 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Robert Reich, GOP, Mitt Romney, Political candidates

Why Health Care Reform Is So Difficult in the United States

By HUMPHREY TAYLOR, Chairman, the Harris Poll, Harris interactive Why is it so hard to change the American health care system? And so much easier to change other countries’ systems? I pondered this question recently while attending the Commonwealth Fund...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 9:52 AM by The Health Care Blog

What Would A Truly Patient-Centered Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Look Like?

By KENT BOTTLES Health care leaders are busy talking to attorneys and consultants about how to set up Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). A recent Advisory Board survey found that 73 per cent of hospital finance executives said that creating such....

Published Mon, Jan 03 2011 6:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Spring Conference Update

The Health 2.0 Conference, run by THCB founder Matthew Holt and colleague Indu Subaiya, announced additions to the lineup of its spring conference in San Diego. The Future of Research panel will focus on the emergence of user-generated content and......

Published Tue, Jan 25 2011 5:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Reflections on the Certification Experience

By JOHN HALAMKA, MD On Friday, January 21, 2011, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center completed the certification of its enterprise EHR technologies via the CCHIT EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH) program. Here's the press release...

Published Tue, Jan 25 2011 3:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Calendar: Medically-Related Social Media Websites

As four Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) fellows affiliated with Rutgers and Thomas Jefferson University, we are conducting an online survey on the use and evaluation of medically-related social media websites. We are aiming to gather your feedback as the...

Published Wed, Jan 26 2011 12:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Commerce Clause Challenges to Health Care Reform

By MARK HALL, JD The following article, forthcoming in U. Penn. L. Rev., pinpoints the strongest arguments for and against federal power under the Commerce Clause to mandate the purchase of health insurance: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id...

Published Thu, Jan 27 2011 5:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Has U.S. Health Care Spending Finally Stabilized? An Outlook for 2019

By ETIENNE DEFFARGES The official 2017 statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) are out, and there are some good news: The annual growth rate of health care spending is slowing down, and is the lowest since 2013 at 3.9%...

Published Tue, Jan 22 2019 8:16 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Medicaid, Health insurance, Healthcare costs, Healthcare spending, Finance, Etienne Deffarges

Why CMIOs Matter, and Why We Hired One

By JONATHAN BUSH On Monday morning, April 4, we were proud to announce that Dr. Todd Rothenhaus has come onboard here at athenahealth to serve in the role of chief medical information officer, or CMIO. It’s a new position and we’re excited he’s joined...

Published Sun, Apr 10 2011 3:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Jonathan Bush, CMIO, EMR

The Kaisingers link up

A while ago at an IOM meeting I mis-spoke and called Geisinger, “Kaisinger” and it kinda sounded right. Well now those two Epic users with another similar Epic user (Group Health) have teamed up with Mayo (home grown IT) and InterMountain...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2011 9:51 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, EHR, micro, EMR, Kaiser Permanente

Rethinking IMS Health v. Sorrell: Privacy as a First Amendment Value

By FRANK PASQUALE Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in IMS Health v. Sorrell. The case pits medical data giant IMS Health (and some other plaintiffs) against the state of Vermont, which restricted the distribution of certain “physician...

Published Fri, Apr 29 2011 5:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Privacy, Frank Pasquale, Uncategorized, IMS Health v Sorrell, Patient privacy, Pharmaceutical industry, Medical data

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (EHR) Bomb

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Remember the fear mongering rhetoric about weapons of mass destruction and all sorts of other bogey men that sometimes led to war death and true destruction and other times to just animosity, hatred and counterproductive waste of...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2011 7:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, EHR, THCB, Margalit Gur-Aire

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