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The Difficult Science

By KENT BOTTLES, MD “The mind leans over backward to transform a mad world into a sensible one, and the process is so natural and easy we hardly notice that it is taking place.” Jeremy Campbell On the same day... Read More...

Published Sat, Dec 25 2010 4:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Geolocate This

By DAVID HARLOW As health care providers continue to wonder whether and how they should add social media to their mix of communications tactics, new tools -- and new uses for those tools -- continue to sprout up. I'm quoted... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 27 2010 6:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 1 – A Strategic Framework

By COLIN KONSCHAK, FACHE and DAVE LEVIN, MD The opioid crisis in the United States is having a devastating impact on individuals, their families, and the health care industry. This multi-part series will focus on the role technology can play in addressing...

Published Mon, Feb 04 2019 8:56 AM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, Health IT, Opioid epidemic, Divurgent, Dave Levin, Sansoro Health, Colin Konschak

Massachusetts, Utah, or Nothing: How States Should Address Exchanges

By JOHN GRAHAM PPACA prescribes states’ “flexibility” in structuring exchanges. Libertarian and conservative policy analysts have criticized Massachusetts’ bloated and intrusive Commonwealth Connector, the country’s first pre-Obamacare exchange. Some...

Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 9:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Is Healthcare IT Ready for its Big Coming Out Party?

By BOB WACHTER In 2001, when my colleagues and I ranked nearly 100 patient safety practices on the strength of their supporting evidence (for an AHRQ report), healthcare IT didn’t make the top 25. We took a lot of heat... Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 25 2009 11:35 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Bob Wachter

The Doctor Who Thwarted the Charge of the General Medical Council – Part 1

By SAURABH JHA After Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba was convicted for manslaughter for delayed diagnosis of fatal sepsis in Jack Adcock, a six-year-old boy who presented to Leicester Royal Infirmary with diarrhea and vomiting, she was referred to the Medical Practitioners...

Published Sun, Aug 05 2018 11:59 AM by THCB

Filed under: NHS, @roguerad, #BawaGarba

Susannah Fox on Teens & Digital Health Study

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF Health How are teens and young adults engaging with digital health? Results of a national survey asking just that were released today by Susannah Fox (Former CTO at US Dept of HHS) and her research partner, Victoria Rideout. You...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2018 3:58 PM by THCB

Filed under: Susannah Fox, Uncategorized, digital health, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, digital health marketplace, Survey of Teens and Digital Health, Victoria Rideout, teens and digital health

Last Chance to Fix the Exchanges

By BILL KRAMER We all know that well-designed health insurance exchanges are a critical element for good health reform, right? And we also hear that exchanges are part of all five reform bills in Congress, so we should be satisfied,... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 7:16 PM by The Health Care Blog

Misdiagnosis: Obamacare Tried to Fix the Wrong Things and Prescribed the Wrong Treatments

By CHARLES SILVER and DAVID A.HYMAN Today THCB is happy to publish a piece reflecting the learnings from Charles Silver and David Hyman’s forthcoming book Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care, shortly to be published by the libertarian...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2018 9:03 PM by THCB

Filed under: Economics, Op-Ed, Obamacare, Charles Silver, Overcharged, David A. Hyman, Cato Institute

MedStar Franklin Center: The Case Against Global Capitation

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Baltimore County, Maryland is one hour north of Washington DC, where politicians appear impotent to contain runaway healthcare expenditures. In January 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in partnership with...

Published Mon, May 07 2018 9:17 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Iowa Race Questions Logic of Significance of Health Policy Debate

By AMY LONG and JOE MOLLOY According to the Democrats, their success across the country in the midterm elections has largely been due to the party running on healthcare. Indeed, surveys such as the one conducted by Health Research Incorporated indicated...

Published Wed, Dec 05 2018 6:53 AM by THCB

Filed under: Politics, Health policy, Trump, Iowa, Midterm Elections, Toothpic

Are Bipartisan Agreements on Health Care Possible?

By KEN TERRY Republicans and Democrats are seen as poles apart on health policy, and the recent election campaign magnified those differences. But in one area—private-sector competition among healthcare providers—there seems to be a fair amount of overlap...

Published Mon, Dec 24 2018 8:50 AM by THCB

Filed under: CMS, Health policy, Healthcare spending, Ken Terry, bipartisanship

SMACK.Health–Getting Clear on the Concept

I’m going to be announcing some big changes on THCB and with my overall services in the next little bit. So to prepare for this, here’s a rather good explanation I did last year in Australia of what I mean by SMACK.health — randomly...

Published Fri, May 18 2018 6:59 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Jessica DaMassa, SMACK.health

Disrupting the Cholesterol Test: Finnish Startup Nightingale Health

By JESSICA DA MASSA, WTF Health Today’s cholesterol test is about to be disrupted. Nightingale Health, a five-year-old startup based out of Finland, has built a better blood test that – among other things – is about to disrupt the cholesterol test...

Published Thu, Sep 06 2018 4:02 PM by THCB

Filed under: Startup, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Finland health tech, metabolic data, blood test, Nightingale Health

Practice Fusion throws its hat in the consumer ring

By Matthew Holt Practice Fusion has been making a fair bit of noise recently with its investment from Salesforce and its trumpeting of 18,000 + physician users. If that number is true it probably makes it the most used EMR... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 10:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0

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