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Radiology in Africa

By SAURABH JHA MD What are the challenges of getting imaging to Africa? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line, I convene a panel of experts in Africa. We discuss the challenges of bringing new technology to Africa, the new need for imaging driven by...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2019 7:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Radiology, Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, Radiology Firing Line Podcast, RogueRad, Global Health, equipment dumping, Africa, JACR

THCB Spotlights: EyeforPharma

By ZOYA KHAN Jessica DaMassa interviews Paul Simms, the Chairman of Eyepharma. Eyeforpharma are the “media moguls” when it comes to the Pharma industry. In order to innovate the industry, they are holding two different conferences this year to bring pharma...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2019 12:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical industry, health technology, jessica da massa, THCB Spotlights, health tech startups, paul simms, pharma innovation, eyeforpharma

Our Dead on Every Shore

By MAYURA DESHPANDE I once made a serious error. The patient had taken an overdose of paracetamol, but because I was single-handedly covering three inpatient acute psychiatric wards due to sickness of two other trainees which medical HR had been unable...

Published Tue, Feb 26 2019 7:14 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, NHS, Mayura Deshpande, Adverse Events

Karen Ignagni tells the truth, unfortunately

By Matthew Holt There’s a big to-do about whether there are really any cost-saving measures in the House and Senate bill. Most people say that the answers are “no” and “sort of”. There’ll be much more discussion about that on... Read More...

Published Sun, Nov 29 2009 1:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Policy

Laboratories of Democracy, Part 2

By MERRILL GOOZNER Experimentation in how states would move toward universal health care coverage was written into the DNA of the Affordable Care Act. The law allowed any state to petition for a waiver that would enable it to enact its own brand of reform...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2011 9:57 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Merrill Goozner, Front Page, Obamacare, Repeal, Waivers

Health 2.0 Spring Fling Updates

Health 2.0’s Spring Fling is just 3 weeks away. We are expecting a great crowd, so register today! Catch expertly curated sessions with brand new themes, products debuting to the public for the first time, and discussion on compelling success stories...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2011 4:07 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Tech, Front Page

Health 2.0 Spring Fling–preview interviews

By Emily Ebert At Health 2.0 we are getting very excited for the Spring Fling this March 20-21, and in preparation, we’re doing a series of interviews with some of the speakers and panelists. Below is a list of all the interviews we’re already...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 3:06 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Front Page, Health 2.0 Live

Realizing Value from Health IT: A BCG Response to the PCAST report

By BENJAMIN BERK, MD, SIMON KENNEDY, & BCG HCIT Team If we are to achieve the aims of health insurance reform/PPACA, let alone eventual health delivery reform, the US needs coherent, comprehensive federal health IT policy. In late December, PCAST...

Published Fri, Mar 04 2011 8:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, Front Page, BCG, PCAST

HIT Trends Summary for February 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for February 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. Innovations in provider and patient solutions. DrFirst announced that it acquired AdherenceRx to integrate e-prescribing and...

Published Sun, Mar 06 2011 3:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, Michael Lake

A Speed Bump on the Road to Meaningful Use

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Meaningful Use has hit a speed bump. It’s of the low, wide and gentle type, not the old raggedy, narrow and mean bump you find in older parking lots. Now that a tentative proposal for Meaningful Use Stage 2 has been published by ONC...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 2:29 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, ONC, Stages, Margalit Gur-Aire, NIST

Not So Fast – Why It Pays to Wait Until FY 2012 on Meaningful Use

By PROTIMA ADVANI The registration process and reporting period for the meaningful use incentive program officially commenced on Jan. 3. More than 21,000 health care providers have registered to date and many more are ramping up efforts to meet meaningful...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 12:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, Potima Advani

The Inspector General Observes

By PAUL LEVY A recent report by the Massachusetts Inspector General raises a thoughtful concern about the implementation of global payments in the state. In the effort to contain health care costs, much discourse has centered on moving from a predominantly...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 10:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Paul Levy, Massachusetts, ACOs, Global payments, AQC

Bias And How to Deal With It

By DERICK LOWE, PHD The coverage of the Japanese reactor situation reminds me of the coverage of many other technical issues when they overlap with serious breaking news stories. I wrote a little on this subject a few years ago, talking about the Merck...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 12:15 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Bias, Japanese reactor, Media, Derick Lowe

Conflicts Of Interest In Guideline Development: A Dirty Little Secret Gets Aired Again

By DAVID WILLIAMS An Archives of Internal Medicine article (Conflicts of Interest in Cardiovascular Clinical Practice Guidelines) is getting a lot of notice today. In essence, many of the physicians who develop guideline that influence practice patterns...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 4:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, NIH, cardiology, Conflict of interest, Guidelines, Eli Lilly, Archives of Internal Medicine

Minor League Report Cards

By DAVID DRANOVE I was pleased to see the Chicago Tribune carry an op-ed piece this week by my friend and colleague Michael Millenson. The gist of the piece was that information about hospital quality is readily available online and we should use that...

Published Sat, Apr 02 2011 3:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Risk adjustment, Leapfrog, PROMIS, Healthgrades, Inside Baseball, Hospital Compare

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