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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

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

Uber and the Twisted Logic of the Affordable Care Act’s Employer Mandate

By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE We have recently blogged about what is perhaps the best feature of the Affordable Care Act – the individual insurance exchanges. These exchanges have the potential to create one of the first well-functioning individual...

Published Thu, Jun 25 2015 4:08 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The ABIM Controversy: A Brief History of Board Certification and MOC

By ROBERT WACHTER, MD What’s up with the ABIM?” “I just got a note about an alternative board. Should I join it?” “Aren’t you glad to be off the Board?” These days, I get these questions from friends and colleagues regularly. When I first joined the board...

Published Mon, Jun 29 2015 6:03 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, ABIM

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

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Published Tue, Mar 30 2010 4:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

Stop Calling Them Patients!

BY JIM PURCELL We have a healthcare system that is provider-centric indeed. Why else would we call the consumers of their services “patients?” Perhaps because they have to be patient. Patient because they have to wait long after their appointed hour to...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2015 10:25 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Defining Interoperability: An Interview with Grahame Grieve

By LEONARD KISH Grahame Grieve is a long-time leader within HL7 and one of the key drivers behind FHIR. He chats with Leonard Kish about what’s been happening and what’s ahead for interoperability. LK: First tell me how you got into standards… it’s kind...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2015 4:39 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Interoperability, FHIR, Leonard Kish, Graham Grieve, HL-7

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

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

We're getting so excited (and Todd Park always is)...about DC

By Matthew Holt The next ten days is going to be very very exciting. It all culminates in Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7 (Monday). But there's lots leading up to that which is very important for the... Read More...

Published Thu, May 27 2010 11:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

What's In an EHR?

By MARGALIT GUR-AIRE One of the most promising uses of Electronic Health Records (EHR) is Research. As EHRs become more and more widespread and the clinical data previously held in silos of paper charts becomes fluid, exchangeable and duly collected,...

Published Wed, Aug 11 2010 5:12 AM by The Health Care Blog

Closing remarks from Health 2.0 Goes to Washington

By Ida Strom Seljeseth In this video from Health 2.0 Goes to Washingston on June 7, 2010, founders of Health 2.0 Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt review the day. They talked about what really stood out for them and how... Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 31 2010 12:11 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Conferences

Independent Advisors Prove Independent

By MERRILL GOOZNER Journalist-turned-stock-analyst Ramsey Baghdadi of Concept Capital, who formerly wrote for the RPM Report, tells TheStreet.com that Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee recommendations are down to 52 percent "yes"...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 11:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: FDA, Merrill Goozner

The Decline and Fall of Informed Consent

By RICHARD GUNDERMAN, MD and JAMES LYNCH, MD Margaret Edson’s 1999 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Wit, tells the story of the final hours of Vivian Bearing, PhD, an English professor dying of cancer. Early in the course of her disease, one of her doctors...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2017 8:33 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Informed Consent, Clinical Trial

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