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Something Not So Terrific

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The brand new President Barack Obama, whether wittingly or not, invested his entire political capital in reforming health care in America. He gambled and he lost, not because he had nefarious intentions, but because he left the gory...

Published Wed, Nov 30 2016 11:26 PM by THCB

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The Price Is Basically Right

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Recently, President-Elect Trump selected Rep. Tom Price, MD to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Suffice it to say, this signals Mr. Trumps’ resolve and commitment to definitively repealing and replacing. Dr. Price...

Published Wed, Nov 30 2016 10:47 PM by THCB

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Science in the Age of Trump

By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD As Donald Trump seeks to build his administration, he will likely struggle with creating a science infrastructure, given his estrangement from the nation’s scientific community. The distance between Trump and scientists seems to...

Published Wed, Nov 30 2016 4:44 AM by THCB

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What Does the Recent Election Mean For Predictive Analytics In Healthcare???

By ROBERT ROWLEY, MD The outcome of the recent election caught many people, and many forecasters, by surprise. How could their predictions have missed the mark so significantly? Granted, there were a number of people who predicted the outcome more accurately...

Published Tue, Nov 29 2016 5:56 PM by THCB

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One Regulation Could Eliminate a Dozen Others

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD President-Elect Trump recently announced: “for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated.” Regulatory capture, the topic of a recent THCB post by Nortin Hadler, has enabled many regulations based on HITECH...

Published Tue, Nov 29 2016 12:08 AM by THCB

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Why Trump Won? A Brief Tutorial for Harvard Medical Students

By ANISH KOKA, MD Mike Milligan, a Harvard medical student, recently wrote in THCB about the shock felt throughout his medical school upon the election of Donald Trump. Seeking to understand how it may be that ‘equality, service and compassion’ were defeated...

Published Sun, Nov 27 2016 3:25 PM by THCB

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The Uncertainty Bomb

By PAUL KECKLEY I like certainty and routine. I like my daily Tall Dark Roast with no room for cream at 5 am at Starbucks. I like the same restaurants, the same suits and ties and the same TV shows. Holidays throw me off and I get bored quickly when I...

Published Sat, Nov 26 2016 6:24 PM by THCB

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How Doctors Can Help Win the Next Election

By MIKE MILLIGAN On the morning of November 9th, the day after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, a visceral sense of shock was felt throughout the campus of Harvard Medical School. Donald Trump’s victory appeared to be an abrupt rebuke of so many of...

Published Sat, Nov 26 2016 5:39 PM by THCB

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Two Nations Separated by 5.3 mm

By SAURABH JHA MD A popular meme is that the U.S. spends more on healthcare than other developed nations but has nothing to show for that spending. This is different from saying that the U.S. spends more, but achieves something, but the something it achieves...

Published Fri, Nov 25 2016 4:22 PM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Op-Ed, Uncategorized

American Healthcare Rackets: Monopolies, Oligopolies, Cartels and Kindred Plunderbunds

By NORTIN HADLER, MD The Healthcare Dollar, the Healthcare Industry and the Healthcare System are shibboleths. All are parlance. All render terms such as Healthcare Profession, Service Profession, and Healthcare Professionals quaint. All drive linguistic...

Published Fri, Nov 25 2016 2:20 AM by THCB

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Will Trumpcare Repeal & Replace Obamacare?

BY DEVON HERRICK Donald Trump made repealing Obamacare one of the cornerstones of his campaign. Now that he has won, his administration will face the daunting task of unraveling nearly seven years of Obamacare. Republican policymakers cannot agree how...

Published Wed, Nov 23 2016 6:27 PM by THCB

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Congress Shouldn’t Pass FDA Reform Bills Without Addressing Patient Safety and Drug Prices

By DIANA ZUCKERMAN A major proposed law that alters the way the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves drugs and medical devices has been wending its way through Congress since 2014. Momentum is building on Capitol Hill to pass the legislation in...

Published Wed, Nov 23 2016 8:01 AM by THCB

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Want to help Technologies for Healthy Communities?

By ALEXANDRA CAMESAS Health 2.0 is actively expanding Technology for Healthy Communities and looking for large healthcare organizations and foundations to help support technology adoption at a community level. Technology for Healthy Communities is a dynamic...

Published Tue, Nov 22 2016 4:07 PM by THCB

Filed under: Technology, THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, community health

U.S. Public Policy Versus the Slutsky Decomposition

By UWE REINHARDT Although, unlike most other nations, the U.S. has only two parties worth the name, their professed doctrines compared with their actions strikes me as more confusing than the well-known Slutsky Decomposition which, as everyone knows,...

Published Mon, Nov 21 2016 6:52 PM by THCB

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Rethinking Outcomes Improvement and Data Governance

By HEALTH CATALYST Over the last year, we have noticed a very common trend. As organizations decide that they are ready to embark on a data-driven journey, they go through a rigorous process to select their technology and vendor(s) of choice, but then...

Published Mon, Nov 21 2016 6:50 AM by THCB

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Something Not So Terrific

The Price Is Basically Right

Science in the Age of Trump

What Does the Recent Election Mean For Predictive Analytics In Healthcare???

One Regulation Could Eliminate a Dozen Others

Why Trump Won? A Brief Tutorial for Harvard Medical Students

The Uncertainty Bomb

How Doctors Can Help Win the Next Election

Two Nations Separated by 5.3 mm

American Healthcare Rackets: Monopolies, Oligopolies, Cartels and Kindred Plunderbunds

Will Trumpcare Repeal & Replace Obamacare?

Congress Shouldn’t Pass FDA Reform Bills Without Addressing Patient Safety and Drug Prices

Want to help Technologies for Healthy Communities?

U.S. Public Policy Versus the Slutsky Decomposition

Rethinking Outcomes Improvement and Data Governance