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The Facebook Model for Socialized Health Care

By EDGAR T. WILSON As government involvement in U.S. health care deepens—through the Affordable Care Act, Meaningful Use, and the continued revisions and expansions of Medicaid and Medicare—the politically electric watchword is “socialism.” Online, of...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2015 5:23 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Social Media, Data, Facebook, Wearables, Big Data, Internet of Things

Shared Responsibility in the Affordable Care Act

By DRANOVE AND GARTHWAITE Recently we wrote that it was well past time to end the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act. In light of some commentary, we thought it best to revisit this issue in more detail. It seems that most of the support for...

Published Sun, Mar 01 2015 12:55 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, ACA, Personal responsibility, Employer-based care, Mandate

What’s wrong with Cannon, Burwell & King in 5 tweets

By MATTHEW HOLT When the latest post from Michael Cannon–he who seeks to sink the subsidies attached to the Federal exchange–hit my inbox, I wondered, “Why don’t his opponents stop arguing the specifics, and instead explain what...

Published Mon, Mar 02 2015 5:37 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, ACA, SCOTUS, Michael Cannon, King, Halbig

Nancy Turret, Edelman: "Health is the new Green"

By Matthew Holt Late last year PR/Communications giant Edelman released a survey called the Health Engagement Pulse. (Here’s the press release and here are the charts) This is separate from both Edelman’s Engagement Barometer which has looked at consumer...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 1:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers, The Industry

Wanted: Surgeons, nurses, and other medical personnel to help in Haiti

By Partners in Health We are deeply grateful for the multitude of people who have contacted us wanting to provide medical assistance. As patients flood to our sites from Port-au-Prince, we're finding ourselves in need of both medical personnel and...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 8:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Thinking the unthinkable--no Health Care bill?

By Matthew Holt After a resounding Democratic Presidential election win, a terrible recession, and a bruising year of politics, it would be just like America that a crazy election result torpedoes the health care reform bill. It would be the... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 1:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Election 08

Grand Rounds: Can Food Be Health care?

By John La Puma, MD http://drjohnlapuma.com will host Grand Rounds early early a.m. on Tuesday, January 19, 2010; the deadline for blog submission is Sunday January 17, 2010 at 3 p.m. PST. A weekly synthesis of the best posts from... Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 17 2010 5:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Why Cancer Patients and Clinicians Need a Decision Aid Upgrade

THOMAS SMITH, MD We have learned a lot about how to treat cancer in the past 30 years, yet patients still experience significant symptoms, pain, and stress from cancer and its treatments. And we are nowhere near curing patients of some of the most debilitating...

Published Wed, May 06 2015 12:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Do it for Mom: Sign Up to Support Electronic Access to Your Health Records Today

By LYGEIA RICCIARDI and PETER LEVIN In many families, the mother serves as the Family Health CEO, managing healthcare for her parents, kids, spouse, and herself. It’s Mom who schedules the doctor’s appointments, hunts down the immunization records for...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 5:30 AM by The Healthcare Blog

Filed under: THCB

Real Meaningful Use? Curing Healthcare’s Digital Divide

By JAAN SIDOROV, MD For better or worse, policymakers, politicians and health leaders in the United States are committed to achieving paperless healthcare environment. Even if there is lack of high quality research and reasonable skepticism over the ultimate...

Published Mon, May 11 2015 3:04 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Physician Data on Impact of Health Reform In 2014

By JOSHUA GRAY Over the past year, our athenaResearch team has been working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on ACAView, an initiative that provides researchers, policymakers and the public with regular updates on how the Affordable Care...

Published Wed, May 13 2015 12:31 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

The Readmissions Penalty at Year Three: How Are We Doing?

By ASHISH JHA, MD A few months ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put out its latest year of data on the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). As a quick refresher – HRRP is the program within the Affordable Care Act Read...

Published Sun, May 17 2015 6:59 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Gawande's "Checklist Manifesto"

By BOB WACHTER Every now and then, I read and enjoy a book, but only later fully appreciate it as its lessons and insights slowly become apparent. Judging by the number of times I’ve said, “That reminds me of Gawande’s... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2010 11:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Bob Wachter, Atul Gawande

Rating or Narrating, that is the question.

By Denise Silber This April 6–7, the Health 2.0 Europe conference will feature the many ways in which Web 2.0 tools are providing innovative solutions to, amongst others, our fundamental need for self-expression, known more recently as “user-generated...

Published Tue, Feb 09 2010 4:43 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Physicians, Consumers

Hands on social media workshop in Berkeley

By Matthew Holt Speranza Avram from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Center for Health Leadership writes to say that they’re hosting a two-day conference on April 15-16 called 21st Century Tools for Health Leaders: Using New Media and... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 6:05 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

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The Facebook Model for Socialized Health Care

Shared Responsibility in the Affordable Care Act

What’s wrong with Cannon, Burwell & King in 5 tweets

Nancy Turret, Edelman: "Health is the new Green"

Wanted: Surgeons, nurses, and other medical personnel to help in Haiti

Thinking the unthinkable--no Health Care bill?

Grand Rounds: Can Food Be Health care?

Why Cancer Patients and Clinicians Need a Decision Aid Upgrade

Do it for Mom: Sign Up to Support Electronic Access to Your Health Records Today

Real Meaningful Use? Curing Healthcare’s Digital Divide

Physician Data on Impact of Health Reform In 2014

The Readmissions Penalty at Year Three: How Are We Doing?

Gawande's "Checklist Manifesto"

Rating or Narrating, that is the question.

Hands on social media workshop in Berkeley