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Cruel Shoes

By JOHN HENNING SCHUMANN, MD A thirtysomething friend of mine, let's call her Sally, started running last year in an effort to get in better shape. As often happens in these scenarios, Sally developed some foot pain. So she went... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 12:26 PM by The Health Care Blog

Exploitations of Immortality

By FRANK PASQUALE, JD Rebecca Skloot’s remarkable book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has quite a following among health lawyers. As an excerpt from the book explains, Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same... Read...

Published Thu, Feb 10 2011 9:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

NIH and New Drugs — New Study Says 1 in 5

By MERRILL GOOZNER For most of the past decade, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have competed over who could pour more money into the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. But the party is over. The...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2011 4:51 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: pharmaceuticals, Merrill Goozner, NIH, NEJM, Drug development

Paul Starr agrees with me (or I steal from him--take your pick)

By Matthew Holt Paul Starr and I have been agreeing a lot lately. Not that Paul knows or cares what I think or say, but a while back we both expressed fear that private health plans will end up channeling... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 01 2009 1:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy

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2009: A Year of Surprises and Change for the EHR Technology Market

By by DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits." All's Well That Ends Well (II, i, 145-147) 2009 began with... Read More...

Published Sun, Dec 06 2009 9:49 PM by The Health Care Blog

The Fall of Berwick?

By MAGGIE MAHAR When President Obama named Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) last March, I wrote this: “Most who know Berwick describe him a ‘visionary’ and a ‘healer,’ a man able to survey the fragments of a broken...

Published Wed, Mar 09 2011 6:36 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Maggie Mahar, CMS, Donald Berwick, Senate

Why Apple iPad will Dominate in the Enterprise

By JOHN MOORE Ok, before I even begin, let me put it right out there: I’ve been using Apple products since I first got my hands on one of those cute little Mac SEs in the late 80′s having given up my spanking, brand new Compaq 386 with 64kb of RAM and...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2011 9:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, John Moore, iPad, Healthcare

The Neverending Story

By STEVE SANDERS We’re hearing a lot about the use of electronic medical records (EMR) in medicine. The government is all for it—providing financial incentives for those with EMRs and disincentives for those still relying on paper charts to make their...

Published Sat, Mar 26 2011 9:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Patients, Data, Design

The Cost of Apples

By SAMUEL YANG Up until last May, my experience of medical costs was limited to the $100 per month premium I contributed towards my employer-sponsored insurance and the nominal co-pays associated with well-child checkups and generic prescriptions. There...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 6:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Patients, Costs of Care, Healthcare costs, Samuel Yang, Endoscopy, Preexisting Condition

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

The evolution of THCB

It’s been a couple of months since we moved THCB to Wordpress and added the channels you see at the top. As you may have noticed there have been some teething troubles, and for all its power Wordpress does have some problems. We’re still working...

Published Sat, Apr 09 2011 3:29 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: micro

Why CMIOs Matter, and Why We Hired One

By JONATHAN BUSH On Monday morning, April 4, we were proud to announce that Dr. Todd Rothenhaus has come onboard here at athenahealth to serve in the role of chief medical information officer, or CMIO. It’s a new position and we’re excited he’s joined...

Published Sun, Apr 10 2011 3:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Jonathan Bush, CMIO, EMR

To the Barricades!

By DAVID DRANOVE Last week, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan unveiled his plan to save Medicare and Medicaid. Supporters hailed the plan as revolutionary; critics decried the plan as revolutionary. For something so revolutionary, it sure is based on some...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2011 1:51 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, David Dranove, Paul Ryan

A Rebuttal to PHR Luddites

By VINCE KURAITIS Unlike some of my colleagues, I’m not losing ANY sleep over whether personal health record (PHR) systems ultimately will be adopted and used by patients. In my mind, the issue isn’t WHETHER, but WHEN. Yes, I know that adoption has lagged...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2011 6:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Vince Kuraitis, Tech, PHR

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