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The Land of Milk, Honey and Low-Priced Health Insurance

By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE Not long ago we received our first signs that all may not be well in the land of milk, honey, and low priced insurance, i.e. the ACA insurance exchanges. Many insurers, including some of the largest in each state...

Published Thu, Jun 11 2015 7:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

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

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

The Remarkable Rise of the Hyphenated-Hospitalist

By ROBERT WACHTER, MD I recall with fondness many meetings in 1996-98, when the hospitalist field was still in its infancy. We had invented a new medical specialty, and our gatherings were vibrant and purposeful. We were determined to remake... Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 16 2011 5:01 PM by The Health Care Blog

Silly Season: Monty Python Policy Making

By IAN MORRISON Editor's Note: Ian Morrison today makes his first contribution to THCB. Ian was President of Institute for the Future where I learned my health care consulting trade in the 1990s. A more amusing boss one couldn't have... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2009 7:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Reform

The Finns are coming, the Finns are coming (to Health 2.0!)

By MATTHEW HOLT One of the great things that I’ve seen in a couple of decades of watching health tech has been the democratization of technology, and the amazing ideas coming from all across the globe. Health care is no exception and one of the...

Published Wed, Sep 02 2015 5:27 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Health Tech, Tekes, Team Finland, Ilona Lundstrom

ONC Signals a Shift From Documents to Interfaces

ADRIAN GROPPER, MD All of you Meaningful Use and Health IT junkies should read Data for Individual Health Although long, it’s definitely worth a scan by everyone who cares about health tech. This is the third JASON-related report in a year out of...

Published Sun, Dec 07 2014 8:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, JASON, Blue Button, CCDA, Blue Button Plus Push

Five takeaways about the Theranos broo-ha-ha

By MATTHEW HOLT You’ve probably seen by now both that the WSJ’s John Carreyrou has run a well researched hit piece on Theranos and that the company, led by wunderkind Elizabeth Holmes, has somewhat muffed its reply. If you haven’t, best...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2015 7:09 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Theranos, Testing, Elizabeth Holmes, Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe

A Hard-to-Find “Winning Streak”

By ROGER COLLIER “The winning streak continues as employers predict another year of low health benefit cost growth in 2016.” – That’s the headline to the announcement from international benefits consultants Mercer Inc. of the preliminary findings from...

Published Fri, Sep 25 2015 1:32 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

21st Century Cures Act: Away From the “Valley of Death”

By STEVEN ZECOLA Most people would agree that the number of cures for debilitating and costly illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and cancer have been too few and far between. To address this issue, the U.S. House of Representatives...

Published Thu, Dec 31 2015 12:44 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Getting the Real Story: Valid Performance Measures

By LINDA RIDDELL If you want the real story about whether a wellness program or health product worked, you want valid, accurate measures. Getting the real story is the topic of this lively panel discussion at Health 2.0’s 9th Annual Fall Conference...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2015 9:14 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Health Economy LLC

Miss America Contestant Kelly Johnson on Nursing

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Published Fri, Sep 25 2015 10:23 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Uncategorized

Reg strikes back! Apparently Wellcare were a bunch of crooks after all. Maybe

By Matthew Holt Everyone's favorite Harvard Business School professor is back in the news. Those of you with long memories may remember that at THCB I’ve been a tad critical of Regina Herzlinger’s ideas, her presentation of said ideas and—resulting...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 8:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health Plans

Why We Need Private Primary Care Doctors

By ROB LAMBERTS Things have been busy in my absence. A recent post on Kevin MD by Joseph Biundo, a rheumatologist, challenged my assertion that primary care doctors can save money: (In reference to my claim) That may be true... Read More...

Published Mon, Apr 26 2010 3:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Statin Wars: Less-is-More versus Unlimited Medicine

By SARAH JHA, MD It is the beauty of evidence-based medicine (EBM) that a scientist can at once be a Pope and a Galileo. His transmutation is as effortless as it is discretionary. If you think you’ve met Galileo – a rebel, a free thinker, a rocker...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2016 11:07 AM by THCB