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The Promise of Stem Cell Research: Recent Advancements and Setbacks

By JOE McWILIAMS Few technologies spark as much fascination, hype, and controversy as stem cell technology. One of the most interesting medical applications of stem cell research is in regenerative medicine, where stem cells are being developed to regenerate...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 3:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

The Doctor is In (and Using an iPad)

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN The past year has seen a huge jump in the number of hours that physicians spend online; at the margin, the increase is due to physicians’ use of online via mobile platforms. Meredith Abreu-Ressi, President of Manhattan Research,...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 10:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, EMR, Tablet-based

Why Anthem Was Wrong Not to Encrypt

By DAN MUNRO Being provocative isn’t always helpful. Such is the case with Fred Trotter’s recent headline ‒ Why Anthem Was Right Not To Encrypt. His argument that encryption wasn’t to blame for the largest healthcare data breach in U...

Published Sun, Feb 22 2015 7:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Fred Trotter, Anthem, Encryption, Heartbleed, CHS, Data Security

Safe Doctors, Unsafe Patients: A Tale of Two Infections

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Call it a tale of two infections. It’s the story of how hospitals have blocked transmission of a dangerous infection that patients can give doctors, while a hospital-caused infection that can kill patients continues to be widely tolerated...

Published Sun, Jan 25 2015 2:26 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, AHRQ, CDC, CLABSI

Insurance Exchange Budgets: How Much is Needed?

By ROGER COLLIER It’s coming up to four months since the Department of Health and Human Services awarded more than $50 million in grants to states and US possessions for health insurance exchange planning and development, and the money is... Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 19 2011 4:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Comment on the PCAST Report

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE This comment is not in response to the specific questions posed by ONC, which seem to presume a certain validity of the PCAST report. This comment is respectfully raising several basic questions, which in my opinion, the... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 4:02 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Live Code-a-thons for 2011

Health 2.0 will host the first three Developer Challenge Code-a-thons for 2011 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington, DC, and Boston. These events occur over the course of one day in each city, bringing together developers, designers and raw... Read...

Published Wed, Jan 19 2011 11:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

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

The Other Scarlet Letter

By J.D. KLEINKE Do you hate abortion? Me too. Every form of the procedure sickens me, and has since the first one I ever heard about, when I was 10 years old. My mother had come home early, distraught and bathed in tears, from her job as a teacher in...

Published Sat, Feb 26 2011 11:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Abortion, Front Page, Pro-life, J.D. Kleinke

Health Insurance Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Better Health

By JIM MARKS, MD, MPH A new study in the influential policy journal Health Affairs gives added credence to the idea that much of what drives health falls outside of the realm of medical care. In fact, this must-read study points out what so many of us...

Published Sat, Feb 26 2011 2:09 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: public health, Health insurance, Front Page, James Marks, Outcomes

Why ACOs Won’t Work

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI First, I think Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are a great idea. Just like I thought HMOs were a good idea in 1988 and I thought IPAs were a good idea in 1994. The whole notion of making providers accountable for balancing cost...

Published Thu, Apr 07 2011 8:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, THCB, ACOs, Incentives

How the Veterans are Winning the War

By PAUL LEVY At a seminar last night at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School, one of the students asked a question along the lines of, “How do you know when you have done too much with regard to transparency?”...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 6:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Transparency, Kennedy School of Government, VA Medical System, BIDMC

Some Employers Already Sending Workers To Exchanges to Buy Health Insurance

By JULIE APPLEBY Fed up with the unpredictable cost of health insurance for his small business, Mike Sarafolean last year made a dramatic change: Instead of picking a plan to offer workers, he now sends them to a “private exchange” or marketplace...

Published Fri, Apr 29 2011 6:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Employers, Julie Appleby, Private exchanges

The Little Exchange that Could…Transform the U.S. Health Care System

By ROBERT S. RUDIN and JAYME FUGLESTEN What do the classic children’s’ book “The Little Engine that Could” and federal investment in health information exchanges have in common? More than you’d think. Much has been said about the fragmentation of the...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2015 3:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HIEs, Rand

Do Value-Based Payments Lead to Higher Doctor-Satisfaction Scores?

By JACK COCHRAN, MD and CHARLES KENNEY Recently we wrote a blog post promoting the benefits of shifting from fee-for-service to value-based payments. We praised the recent decision by leaders at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to...

Published Wed, Mar 11 2015 1:43 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Jack Cochran, Charles Kenney, Doctor-Satisfaction Scores, Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute, value-based care

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