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DNADirect bought by Medco: Consumer genomic counselling goes mainstream?

By Matthew Holt Ryan Phelan started DNADirect to expand the power of genetic testing to everyone, using the Web. She’s been ploughing a tough furrow but been making some real progress in the last few years, including getting an investment... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2010 2:25 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers, Personalized Medicine

President Obama on Bipartisanship

By MERRILL GOOZNER As in, he spent a large part of his briefing in the White House press room talking about the fate of the health care reform bill. Here's what he had to say about the summit with Republican... Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 09 2010 8:05 PM by The Health Care Blog

Wellpoint and Their “39%” Rate Increase

By BOB LASZEWSKI Wellpoint is getting killed in the press over a “39%” rate increase for their individual health insurance block in California. HHS Secretary Sebelius has pointed to the Wellpoint individual rate increases demanding an explanation. The...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2010 7:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

We Need a Doctor In the House -- And the Senate

By C.L. GRAY, MD Historically, practicing physicians have shunned politics. If our democracy is to survive, these times demand thoughtful solutions and difficult decisions. Few individuals are better suited to the task than the Hippocratic physician....

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 1:42 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians

Data Druggies

By PHILIP ALLEN GREEN, MD We are data druggies. We spend our days like desperate junkies crawling the carpet, sifting through the shaggy strands of patient histories with shaky fingers in search of facts. Every word our patients utter we feed to the never...

Published Mon, Jun 22 2015 6:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Data, Philip Allen Green

The Digital Doctor: Is Natural Language Processing the Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting For?

By BOB WACHTER, MD Natural language processing might seem a bit arcane andtechnical – the type of thing that software engineers talk about deep into the night, but of limited usefulness for practicing docs and their patients. Yet software that can “read...

Published Tue, Jun 23 2015 8:26 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Of PCPs and THC

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD The drug test came back abnormal. There was THC present. I walked back to Mrs. Johnson and raised my eyebrows. “What’s wrong?” she asked, not used to whatever kind of look I was giving her. “Uh, you forgot to...

Published Wed, Jul 29 2015 7:24 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Xerox is extending to consumers & communities

By MATTHEW HOLT I’m steadily getting all those interviews I did 3+ months ago at HIMSS up onto THCB. (For those of you not paying attention we had a bunch of tech issues at THCB needing a big change and had to forswear videos for a while. But we’re...

Published Thu, Jul 30 2015 11:36 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, Tech, Remote visit, Healthspot, Xerox

ACA Database: Are There Any Plans in the Works to Force Doctors to Accept Obamacare?

By THCBist After several attempts at trying to find doctors who accept my lame-o ACA health plan (Blue Cross Blue Shield advantage HMO), I finally reached my limit today when a rather important appointment got cancelled unless I wanted to pay cash, because...

Published Sat, Aug 01 2015 7:26 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, ACA Database

ACA Database: I’m In Hell. Long-term Facilities Are Cutting Services Due to the ACA’s Reimbursement Changes

BY THCBist Anonymous writes: Currently nursing homes are dumping vent patients,and respiratory services due to reimbursement dollars. The home I will be removed from at the end of the month has succeeded in removing respiratory services and sending residents...

Published Wed, Aug 05 2015 7:43 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Uncategorized

Does Prevention Save Money? Yes No

By JOE FLOWER Or…it’s complicated. The New York Times today published a story titled, “No, Giving More People Health Insurance Doesn’t Save Money.” A piece of the argument is, as the author Margo Sanger-Katz puts it, “Almost...

Published Thu, Aug 06 2015 4:55 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

A Near Death from Voodoo Hexing

By CLIFTON K MEADOR, MD In the spring of 1938, Dr. Drayton Doherty admitted a sixty-year-old African –American man to the hospital. The small hospital was located at the edge of town in an old house that had been converted into a fifteen-bed hospital...

Published Mon, Aug 10 2015 11:01 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Whose Privacy Policies Do We Know More About? Facebook’s or US Health IT Systems’?

By DEBORAH PEEL, MD The Evolution of Facebook’s Privacy Policy Today a new online journal, ‘Technology Science’, went live. Harvard Professor Latanya Sweeney is the Editor in Chief and Publisher. The project is funded by the Ford Foundation. Harvard...

Published Wed, Aug 12 2015 10:35 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Technology Science, Jill Steinman, Jennifer Shore, Patient Privacy Rights Trust Framework

Only the Information You Need – Physicians’ Desk Reference Gets Mobile Upgrade

By SALVATORE VOLPE, MD Drug reference apps have become a go-to resource for healthcare professionals, with 46% of smartphone-using physicians accessing them at least once per week, and 26% daily. With so many choices, how do you know if the information...

Published Wed, Aug 12 2015 12:13 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Uncategorized, Physician's Desk Reference

Small Groups Changing the World: ReThink Health’s Report On Multi-Sector Partnerships for Health

By SUSAN DENTZER “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,” goes the quotation usually attributed to the late anthropologist Margaret Mead. Today, huddled around...

Published Wed, Oct 07 2015 2:36 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

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DNADirect bought by Medco: Consumer genomic counselling goes mainstream?

President Obama on Bipartisanship

Wellpoint and Their “39%” Rate Increase

We Need a Doctor In the House -- And the Senate

Data Druggies

The Digital Doctor: Is Natural Language Processing the Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting For?

Of PCPs and THC

Xerox is extending to consumers & communities

ACA Database: Are There Any Plans in the Works to Force Doctors to Accept Obamacare?

ACA Database: I’m In Hell. Long-term Facilities Are Cutting Services Due to the ACA’s Reimbursement Changes

Does Prevention Save Money? Yes No

A Near Death from Voodoo Hexing

Whose Privacy Policies Do We Know More About? Facebook’s or US Health IT Systems’?

Only the Information You Need – Physicians’ Desk Reference Gets Mobile Upgrade

Small Groups Changing the World: ReThink Health’s Report On Multi-Sector Partnerships for Health