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December 2006

  1. POLICY: Health Care Problem? Check the New York Times Psyche
  2. POLICY: Peak Oil and Healthcare by Dan Bednarz, Ph.D
  3. BLOGS: Why blogging matters, even if it’s only a little
  4. TECH: Health2.0–this time it’s different?
  5. BLOGS: that #1 health care blogger can’t be kept quiet
  6. HEALTH PLANS: Wellpoint not out of the California woods yet
  7. TECH: Laura Landro picks up on Health2.0
  8. TECH/CONSUMERS: Revolution Health & MedBillManager
  9. BLOGS: Coming out of the woodwork
  10. QUALITY/POLICY: Gerald Ford–the poster child for what’s wrong with health care
  11. POLICY: Ezra Klein world takeover on track
  12. INTERNATIONAL/POLICY: Canadian health care must be better!
  13. OFF-TOPIC: Your bizarre Chrsitmas story
  14. PODCAST/QUALITY/TECH: An hour with Brent James
  15. BLOGS: Bob Laszewski joins the cult
  16. TECH/CONSUMERS: Deciphering a revolution?
  17. HEALTH PLANS/TECH: Looks like the Deal’s over–or is it?
  18. TECH/POLICY/PHYSICIANS:American medical care, or Larry Weed on Speed
  19. POLICY: Health insurance 101
  20. BLOGS: Dmitriy’s round up on the HC Blogging Summit
  21. TECH: Interview with David Blauer, CEO of Click4Care
  22. TECH: More wingeing Brits complaining about IT
  23. PHARMA/POLICY/QUALITY: Cost-effectiveness in drug approval
  24. POLICY: Wyden’s health care plan
  25. POLICY/POLITICS: The looting of the taxpayer’s pocket, part 731
  26. POLITICS: Students interrupt Iran president
  27. HEALTH PLANS: Embarrased non-profit insurers still trying to hide the money
  28. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review #22
  29. HEALTH PLANS/TECH: PHRs–Can this woman ever tell the truth?
  30. BLOGS/TECH: Dmitriy is famous–as are the rest of the bloggers
  31. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: Kaiser Permanente’s plan to cover all Californians
  32. OFF-TOPIC: Which side of the great divide is more intelligent and civilized?
  33. TECH/PHYSICIANS/INDUSTRY: Communists in press stirring up trouble
  34. TECH/PHYSICIANS:Vimo–building business by doing good (or vice versa)
  35. INTERNATIONAL: This is why we have trial lawyers
  36. THCB: Not today
  37. BLOGS/TECH: And if you didn’t understand Web2.0 before..
  38. PHYSICIANS: Barry Bonds and the AMA’s still got management where they want them
  39. THCB: Err…comptuer failure
  40. PHARMA: Maybe the Dems are serious about drug pricing
  41. TECH: Brief musings on the PHR
  42. POLICY/POLITICS/HEALTH PLANS: Igleheart, Glasscock, pussycats
  43. POLICY/PODCASTS: Radio stardom
  44. PODCAST/TECH: Health Communities 2dot0
  45. BLOGS: Fox News touts THCB?
  46. PHYSICIANS/POLICY: NY Times is surprised about its Ps and Qs in Prostate Cancer Therapy
  47. PHARMA: That can’t have been a fun management call, with UPDATE
  48. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: John Igleheart is a pussy
  49. POLITICS/TECH: Fame and fortune and everythingthat goes with it
  50. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: Yet more debatable data on CDHPs
  51. POLICY/POLITICS/HEALTH PLANS: A Stark future for private health plans in Medicare?
  52. POLICY: For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of California By John Irvine

November 2006

  1. TECH: HealthCamp
  2. BLOGS: A great Health Wonk Review
  3. QUALITY/POLICY/TECH: Quick notes from the road
  4. POLICY: New York Trans Fat Debate Heats Up
  5. HOSPITALS: Panel Said to Call for Closing 9 New York Hospitals
  6. PHYSICIANS: Pity the poor radiologist
  7. CONSUMERS/POLICY: Real people really travelling
  8. QUALITY: The herniated disk story
  9. POLICY/POLITICS/PHARMA: PhRMA sends the D out on the field
  10. PHYSICIANS: The New York Times–desperate to fill column inches
  11. TECH/HEALTH PLANS/QUALITY: Lonny Reisman, Active Health Management transcript
  12. HOSPITALS/TECH: VISICU
  13. HEALTH PLANS/TECH: Full text of Andrew Wiesenthal (Permanente Federation) interview
  14. POLICY: Maryland plan mandates coverage
  15. BLOGS/HEALTH PLANS: Why we love Roy Poses!
  16. HOPSITALS/HEALTH PLANS: You’d think Kaiser’s had enough bad publicity lately, but then again
  17. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review #20
  18. PODCAST/TECH: Health2.0 Communities
  19. POLICY: What Would Dubya Do?
  20. HOSPITALS: It’s not all financial woe in the big white building
  21. TECH/HEALTH PLANS: Perhaps the last word on KP (for now at least)
  22. TECH/HEALTH PLAN: HISTalk nabs Justen Deal
  23. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: Would you buy a used health care policy solution from this association?
  24. TECH/HEALTH PLANS: Chris Rauber pokes more into KP
  25. POLICY: This is just brutal
  26. TECH/HEALTH PLANS: more on KP
  27. TECH/HEALTH PLANS: A Permanente Group Executive speaks
  28. TECH: Medsphere; what’s going on?
  29. BLOGS: Business Blogging for Health Professionals
  30. JOBS: Hospital Accounts specialist for software co
  31. INTERNATIONAL/POLICY: Compare and contrast the attitudes
  32. HEALTH PLANS: Legal cons abound in health insurance
  33. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: Policy wonks explaining the bleeding obvious
  34. QUALITY/POLICY: Report on Long term Care
  35. TECH: Big practices using IT, less so in smaller ones
  36. TECH/QUALITY: Reason why health care costs keep exploding, #469
  37. PODCASTS/TECH/CONSUMERS: Health2.0 roundtable
  38. HEALTH PLANS: Matthew Holt, stock trading pussy
  39. HEALTH PLANS: A little more on KP
  40. QUALITY/PHYSICIANS: OBGYNs are scientists, scientists I tell you
  41. PODCAST: Lonny Reisman of Active Health Management
  42. HEALTH PLANS: Are we finally at the top?
  43. TECH: RHIOs as ASPs?
  44. TECH/POLICY: McCall gets off the Scrushy way
  45. POLICY: Morrison, Klepper & Enthoven–radical communists or mercantilist capitalist apologists?
  46. TECH/HEALTH PLANS: Gadfly tells me I’m MIA on Kaiser
  47. HOSPITALS/HEALTH PLANS: HCA and United—Someone blinked
  48. PODCAST/TECH/QUALITY: Don Kemper podcast
  49. POLICY: Healthcare crisis countdown
  50. TECH: McKesson Buys Per-Se Technologies
  51. POLICY: Health care astroturf gets me all grumpy
  52. INTERNATIONAL: Canada has got its problems too!
  53. TECH/PHARMA: McCall aquitted
  54. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: Damn communists with endowments, again
  55. POLITICS: I love hypocrisy
  56. PBMs/BLOGS: A blogger at a major PBM
  57. PODCAST/TECH: Healia, Vimo, Healthline–3 Health 2.0 Execs talk about their business
  58. INTERNATIONAL: Cuba exporting doctors
  59. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review
  60. TECH/QUALITY/THE INDUSTRY/HOSPTIALS: Transforming patient care, with UPDATE
  61. PHYSICIANS: I don’t think Eric Novack will like this much!
  62. PBMs: Caremark sneaking out at the top? with UPDATE
  63. BLOGS: Grand Rounds Volume 3 Number 1 Happy Anniversary
  64. PHYSICIANS/PHARMA: The New England Journal gets a local examination

October 2006

  1. PODCAST: David Gratzer transcript
  2. BLOGS/TECH/QUALITY: HealthTrain, the Open Healthcare Manifesto
  3. QUALITY: Does DM save money? The old chestnut rears its ugly head
  4. TECH: Bizzare data theft headline
  5. QUALITY/TECH/PODCAST: Interview with Don Kemper, CEO of Healthwise
  6. TECH: The best treatments for heart disease?
  7. THCB: It’s a big month here!
  8. POLICY/POITICS: A Grim Anniversary
  9. POLICY/THE INDUSTRY/HEALTH PLANS: Employers trying to be not so dumb
  10. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: More rational behavior from big Pharma
  11. POLICY/POLITICS: Uwe gets a job
  12. PODCAST/POLICY: A frank exchange of views with David Gratzer
  13. TECH: ePrescribing update
  14. POLICY: Pat Salber is now a prevention hawk
  15. POLICY: We need health cost containment before fixing the payment method , by Jack Lohman
  16. PHARMA (well sort of): Jim Edwards having a little too much fun
  17. PHARMA/POLICY: Price negotiations coming?
  18. TECH: Avatars, and the Metaverse
  19. TECH: Stents, apparently overused to be replaced by better ones
  20. POLICY/TECH: Free International Calls! NOT Too Good to be True
  21. HEALTH PLANS/HOSPITALS: Maverick pulls hosptials out of HMOs
  22. QUALITY/POLICY: The Scourge of Skid Row
  23. POLICY: Six Dirty Little Health Care Secrets
  24. PBMs: Cynics patrol
  25. POLICY/POLITICS: New York Times, dogs, pustilent sores, licking of.
  26. POLICY: Healthcare Economist on P4P
  27. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review
  28. HEALTH PLANS: Blue Cross Settling Patients’ Lawsuits
  29. POLICY: Communism breaks out on ABC news (well apart from Stossel)
  30. POLITICS: Beyond belief!
  31. POLICY: Spine surgery
  32. PHARMA/POLICY: McLellan leaves offices with partisan and incorrect remarks about Part D
  33. POLICY/HOSPITALS: New Orleans health care, not rebounding
  34. POLICY: Demographics getting simpler and more complicated
  35. PHARMA/POLICY: Crawford goes down
  36. POLICY: Why Is Fixing American Health Care So Difficult?
  37. HEALTH PLANS: Wellpoint and United — not much to be proud of…(with 12 noon EST UPDATE)
  38. POLITICS/PHARMA: Bush Aides Called Evangelicals ‘Nuts’
  39. TECH: Stents and the lack of technology assessment in action
  40. INTERNATIONAL: Health care costs, and not just here!
  41. POLICY: Healthcare by Lobbyist By Eric Novack
  42. POLICY: Aetheist pokes fun at religious institution not offering much charity
  43. INTERNATIONAL: More crass bureaucratic inhumanity in the UK’s NHS
  44. PBMs: Some Employers Look to Break the PBM Habit
  45. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: More evidence that HDHPs work, by Eric Novack
  46. PBMs: Why I will stay poor forever
  47. OFF-TOPIC: The mental and social health of elephants
  48. PHARMA/PBMs: How dumb is the customer? Barbara Martinez tells you the answer
  49. PHARMA/POLICY: When off-label drug use attacks! (Pharma profits, that is)
  50. BLOGS: Signs that health care blogging is dead, or about to become so
  51. BLOGS: Apparently I said that!
  52. POLICY/THE INDUSTRY: Richard Reece does a smiley, happy Orwell
  53. POLICY: A Conversation with Jeanne Scott
  54. POLICY/POLITICS: Econ 101
  55. POLITICS/POLICY: Shock-Horror–I almost agree with Arnold Kling
  56. HEALTH PLANS: Medicare Advantage–risk adjustment is the real key
  57. INTERNATIONAL: Germany restructures healthcare
  58. POLICY: The New York Times cannot leave its pustilent sore alone!
  59. The Great Balance Billing Scandal By Eric Novack
  60. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review is up
  61. PHARMA/POLICY: U.S. Drops Program to Halt Discount Drugs From Canada
  62. TECH:….and talking about 1999 again
  63. TECH: Search, and EDW and BI
  64. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: Emily Firedman rips the individual market a new one
  65. PHARMA: But this is how it’s done
  66. POLICY/POLITICS: Personal angst on research
  67. BLOGS: Is the AMA getting angry?
  68. JOBS: Product manager health IT, SF Bay Area
  69. QUALITY/THE INDUSTRY: DM powerhouse nixed by spreadsheet error
  70. TECH/CONSUMERS: Privacy and electronic records
  71. BLOGS: PRSA Health Academy Panel
  72. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: November comes after September

September 2006

  1. TECH/INDUSTRY/POLICY: Out with the trash
  2. POLICY: How dumb is the NY Times?
  3. QUALITY/POLICY: Futurist’s forecast from Clem Bezold
  4. QUALITY/TECH: Intel’s Dishman wants a proactive health system
  5. BLOGS: Starring moi!
  6. TECH/QUALITY: More quick hits from Ix conference
  7. TECH: MedEncentive–a “commonsense” P4P program
  8. TECH: More on Tech from Ix
  9. POLICY: The Uncertain Future of Public Retiree Health Coverage
  10. QUALITY: DM on Medicare Health Support, and a nice award
  11. POLICY/HOSPITALS: UNC relents from going after the house
  12. TECH: Physicians and patients at the IX conference
  13. TECH: Informated physicians
  14. TECH: Brief cuts from mini presentations
  15. QUALITY/CONSUMERS: Wallace and some patient advocates
  16. QUALITY/POLICY: Information Therapy conference, the employer coalition view
  17. QUALITY: 2006 Information Therapy Conference
  18. INDUSTRY/TECH/POLICY/HOPSPITALS: ID Theft Infects Medical Records
  19. PHYSICIANS/PHARMA: The oncologists’ chemo junket flies above the radar
  20. PHYSICIANS/QUALITY: Getting the Cedars-Sinai docs to change behavior
  21. HEALTH PLANS: Blue Cross cancellation story rumbles on
  22. TECH: Patient physician email only growing slowly
  23. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review–up and kicking
  24. PHYSICIANS: Dr. Mom sounds off
  25. PODCAST/TECH: Jeff Rose, Health Alliant Interview
  26. PHARMA/POLITICS: When Democrats attack!
  27. HEALTH PLANS: Wellpoint backs down?
  28. TECH/HEALTH PLANS: Quick recap on PHRs and consumer health care
  29. HEALTH PLANS: More of the same bad behavior?
  30. HEALTH PLANS/PBMs: Employers are dumb and therefore get punked
  31. HEALTH PLANS: Is medical cost trend headed down again?
  32. TECH: Search engines revving up–Healia review
  33. QUALITY/HOSPITALS: Odd hospital stay ratings–only the good get mentioned?
  34. HEALTH PLANS: The individual insurance market sucks; did I just catch AHIP in yet another lie?
  35. PHYSICIANS: Venting about the AMA, just a bit
  36. PODCAST: Jeff Rose on the reality of RHIOs
  37. BLOGS/TECH: Johnmar on Social Media
  38. HOSPITALS/POLICY: Another hospital CEO calls for single payer
  39. TECH: Williams not impressed by Bush
  40. PHARMA: Peter Rost’s confessions of a healthcare hitman
  41. TECH: More on docs converting to an EMR
  42. HEALTH PLANS: Wellpoint/Anthem branding mystery
  43. PHARMA/HEALTH PLANS: Responding to propaganda with idiot propaganda
  44. BLOGS: Book reviews and new sponsor
  45. BLOGS: Spot-On & 9/11
  46. PHARMA: Rost loses, or wins?
  47. POLITICS: McLellan–a man too soon?
  48. POLICY/BLOGS: Comments, and debate right here on THCB
  49. TECH: Data storage–what to do for home office use?
  50. HOPSITALS/CONSUMERS: Perhaps this is the future of “body attachements”
  51. TECH: Do you believe in RHIOs?
  52. POLICY/POLITICS/HEALTH PLANS: Communist alert! (Well not really…)
  53. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review is up
  54. PHYSICIANS/PHARMA/TECH: A take on the news, sort of
  55. POLICY: Mahar squewers Cutler
  56. PHARMA: Probably another false start from the DEA
  57. TECH: Molly Coye is also an optimist
  58. POLICY: Becker-Posner miss the point
  59. POLICY/THE INDUSTRY: Klepper is still an optimist
  60. TECH/POLICY: A prime example of how health care works, sort of.
  61. TECH: Perot wins another big outsourcing contract
  62. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: A health plan CEO who genuinely believes in universal coverage
  63. POLICY: Starring on NPR

August 2006

  1. QUALITY/TECH: Book reviews on quality and technology strategy
  2. POLICY/THE INDUSTRY: Cutler used as propaganda–is that how he likes it?
  3. QUALITY/PHYSICIANS/POLICY/POLITICS: Hmm….”questiions” about those chemo payments
  4. THCB/HOSPITALS: Google plus THCB makes for some interesting stuff!
  5. INDUSTRY: Who’s making money off the health care crisis?
  6. POLICY/POLITICS: California’s single payer bill, by Eric Novack
  7. HEALTH PLANS/PHYSICIANS: Why Health Care Costs So Much, Reason #581
  8. PHYSICIANS: More on the problems of primary care
  9. POLICY: Health care and profits take a hack out of wages
  10. POLICY/THE INDUSTRY/QUALITY: Why health care costs so much, reason #498
  11. HOSPITALS: Tony Chen, happily paranoid
  12. TECH: Dragon NaturallySpeaking first review
  13. INTL/POLICY/POLITICS: American governor crosses border for healthcare
  14. HEALTH PLANS/QUALITY: BC California on P4P
  15. TECH: EMR meant savings, says Pa. doc
  16. TECH: JSK tries to sort out the “Chaos and Creation in the Health IT Market”
  17. PHARMA: Jim Edwards is very smart
  18. INTERNATIONAL: Maybe privatization in the UK will not be quite so swift
  19. BLOGS: HWR is up
  20. PHARMA/POLICY: New trial for Hurwitz
  21. PHYSICIANS/TECH: Technology won’t replace doctors — and it won’t cut costs, at least so says a doctor
  22. PHYSICIANS/HOSPITALS/POLICY: Explaining practice variation to the masses
  23. POLICY: Grace-Marie Turner podcast transcript.
  24. PHYSICIANS: Ed Goldman podcast transcript
  25. THCB: Fame and fortune and everything that goes with it….
  26. POLICY: You can be a Nobel laureate and still be very confused
  27. TECH/HOPSITALS: IBM Consulting’s view of the full employment future
  28. JOBS: Wanna go to the middle east?
  29. HOSPITALS: Pick the odd one out
  30. HEALTH PLANS: Roy Poses keeps up his attack dog tactics
  31. PHYSICIANS: Patient comments on overuse
  32. The Industry: Worth a look By John Irvine
  33. QUALITY/POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: Cranky, confused, aimless and spineless
  34. PHARMA/POLITICS: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the FDA toilet
  35. TECH: The real news
  36. Quiet today
  37. BLOGS: Quick blog round up
  38. INDUSTRY/POLICY: Brian Klepper is still an optimist
  39. PHYSICIANS/POLICY: Concierge Medicine-Interview with Ed Goldman MDVIP
  40. BLOGS: Grand Rounds
  41. HOSPITALS: McKinsey wants to inspire lots of change; caveat emptor
  42. TECH: Asset tracking continues to get important
  43. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: And for those of you suffering from the voluntary pooling delusion…
  44. POLICY: How dumb is this, part 34
  45. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY/TECH: Millenson on health prediction
  46. PHARMA/POLITICS: Closing the loop on Plan B
  47. HOSPITALS/TECH: Getting the machine that goes “ping” into the EMR
  48. POLICY/POLITICS: The Real Politic$-As-U$ual of Health Care
  49. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review
  50. PHYSICIANS: The sky is falling
  51. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review is coming up this Thursday
  52. TECH: Apparently there’s something called the Internet
  53. Tech: Desktopgate? By John Irvine
  54. TECH: Metcalfe’s law in reverse
  55. PBMs/HEALTH PLANS: Medco makes out; Kaiser not so pretty
  56. TECH: It’s not how big your cross is, it’s where you put it
  57. BLOGS: Yet more abuse of Federal power?
  58. POLICY/TECH: Just a wee bit more on CMS caving to the device guys
  59. QUALITY: More from the DM conference
  60. OFF-TOPIC: The most deserving cause?
  61. TECH/HOSPITALS: File under CMS, cojones, lack of
  62. TECH: Imagine
  63. PHYSICIANS/POLICY: Where’s the outrage? by Eric Novack
  64. QUALITY/TECH: Disease Management conference in Boston
  65. POLICY: Slackers of the zeros
  66. TECH/INDUSTRY: Case the Revolutionary
  67. POLICY: More wonking around in Medicare risk
  68. THCB: It’s my birthday

July 2006

  1. TECH: LinuxWorld – Healthcare Day
  2. BLOGS: HEWR is up at Medical Connectivity Consulting
  3. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS/PHARMA: Part D–a tale of two headlines
  4. HEALTH PLANS: And just in case the pro-Kaiser bias is getting out of hand
  5. HEALTH PLANS/PHYSICIANS/TECH:Health care, the way it should be (or How to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb), by Pat Salber
  6. TECH: Is Continua the work of the devil
  7. BLOGS: New hospital industry blog
  8. HOSPITALS: Yet more insider trading at HCA?
  9. BLOGS: How many nurses can dance on the head of a pin?
  10. THCB: Tech stuff
  11. QUALIY/PHYSICIANS: P4P in the United Kingdom
  12. HEALTH PLANS: You sleep with scumbags, you expect to catch nasty diseases
  13. TECH/QUALITY/PHYSICIANS: Healthcare and The Long Tail – Searching for help when you’re on the wrong-end of the curve by Jim Walker
  14. PBMs: Rebates are nearly dead; can the PBMs keep their generic margins?
  15. TECH/HEALTH PLANS: JSK on Health IT After the Employer-Sponsored Health Era
  16. HOSPITALS: Dr. Anna Pou Defense Fund
  17. HOSPITALS: The secret to Sutter’s high margins?
  18. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: Canadians somewhat grumpy about waiting, but not waiting that long
  19. TECH: Cerner stock heading up again?
  20. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: eHealthinsurance still skipping stats 101
  21. TECH: Why we love HISTalk
  22. QUALITY/CONSUMERS: A really personal piece about obesity
  23. TECH/POLICY: All Oprah’s fault
  24. TECH: IOM reccomends ePrescribing by 2010
  25. POLICY/HOSPITALS: Joe agrees that end of life care costs too much
  26. THCB Update
  27. TECH: PHR has opportunity to go mainstream
  28. QUALITY/PHYSICIANS: Just what we need now, another grandstanding politician on end of life issues
  29. QUALITY/HOSPITALS: I shouldn’t joke about this, but…
  30. TECH: Tim keeping track of healthcare unbound
  31. POLITICS/POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: On the Blues’ political giving & CDHP complexity
  32. POLICY/THE INDUSTRY: Nice work if you can get it
  33. PHYSICIANS/INDUSTRY: Retail clinics
  34. PHARMA/CONSUMERS: Med Solutions
  35. BLOGS: Medpundit’s back
  36. HOSPITALS/POLICY: Unhealthy & unhappy Returns from BillMon
  37. THCB – You’ve got mail!
  38. PHARMA/POLICY: Medicaid gets screwed over on best price, Ignagni fibbing again.
  39. POLICY: The health care, gay marriage re-run
  40. Hospitals: Doctor in Katrina case arrested
  41. TECH/POLICY/RANDOM: Monday update
  42. BLOGS: Start the weekend early
  43. TECH: Comparing chronic disease management systems with EMRs
  44. TECH: Uh-oh, dissent in the orthodoxy that EMR will save money
  45. HOSPITALS: Apparently they’re shooting them down in Texas.
  46. BLOGS: Nurses–lots of them
  47. TECH: Instapundit on Kessler
  48. BLOGS: HWR is up
  49. QUALITY: Yogurt–health food or dessert?
  50. POLICY/POLITICS/HEALTH PLANS: HSAs for Medicare? Crazy but apparently true
  51. QUALITY/PHYSICIANS: Klein on malpractice
  52. OFF-TOPIC: For those of you missing the world cup
  53. QUALITY/PHARMA: Someone’s going to get fired at the DEA for sure
  54. POLICY/QUALITY: Reclaiming the right to die; book review by Mitchell Berger
  55. POLICY: An Outcomes Primer by Eric Novack
  56. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Too many doctors
  57. HOSPITALS: Overpaid facility managers?
  58. POLICY: Apparently there are some non-Canadian commies enjoying universal health care
  59. OFF TOPIC: Even ESPN can’t spoil the World Cup
  60. TECH: Will Silicon Valley invade health care? by Andy Kessler
  61. QUALITY: Performance measures only have a little of the answer
  62. TECH: Medical Manager as described by non-fans
  63. QUALITY: Quiet welcome to new sponsor
  64. HOSPITALS: HCA’s Californication problem

June 2006

  1. BLOGS/QUALITY: Big themes and signing off from FierceHealthcare
  2. OFF-TOPIC: Football, bloody hell
  3. HOSPITALS: Scrushy guilty of something at last
  4. PHARMA/PHYSICIANS: Yet more on Rx data sales
  5. HOSPITALS: Tenet saga over for now
  6. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review is up
  7. PHARMA: The Macular Degeneration Rip Off, By PAT AWASH
  8. TECH/CONSUMERS: Anytime, Anywhere Healthcare
  9. CONSUMERS/TECH: Technology in health in the next decade
  10. POLICY/TECH: Foodscapes ( cool word, huh!)
  11. QUALITY/TECH/POLICY: IFTF meeting on the Global Health Economy
  12. TECH: Is Newer Better? It’s a Coin-Toss, by Maggie Mahar
  13. OFF-TOPIC: World Cup medical latest
  14. POLICY: The times they are a changin’?
  15. TECH/QUALITY: Buying Guidant still such a great idea?
  16. TECH: Barcoding prevalent almost everywhere! (Just kidding)
  17. OFF-TOPIC: Torture day 2006
  18. HOSPITALS/QUALITY: A quiet little speech by Michael Millenson
  19. POLICY: Universal Health Care in San Francisco…well not exactly
  20. PHARMA/POLICY: Scottish Drug Czar Says Drug War Is Lost, Causes Big To-Do
  21. HOSPITALS/POLICY: MY 2 cents on the non-profit conundrum….incentives matter more than labels
  22. QUALITY: Improving health care from within, by Eric Novack
  23. QUALITY: Book reviewer?
  24. TECH: PHRs and Info Therapy
  25. PHYSICIANS/POLICY: Brian Klepper on the end of life as we know it, or something like that
  26. TECH: Lost in the memory hole at McKesson
  27. BLOGS: Peter Rost fired again?
  28. PHYSICIANS/TECH/POLICY/POLITICS: Hard to generate savings when you spend more, eh?
  29. Do Non-Profit Hospitals Deserve Their Tax Breaks?
  30. THCB: Back and in one piece…oh and there’s football
  31. Hospitals: LSU and VA to build Center
  32. Hospitals: The Rosenbaum Case
  33. TECH: The VA and Health IT A Model that Works By Maggie Mahar
  34. POLICY: Consumer-Driven Medicine Is Not The Answer By Maggie Mahar
  35. POLICY: Canadian Giver By Eric Novack
  36. TECH: No I’m Not Really ChangingMy View About IT in Healthcare, But … By The Industry Veteran
  37. POLICY: Why Medicare is More Efficient Than Private Insurers By Maggie Mahar
  38. POLICY: A Riposte to Physicians Who Post on THCB By the Industry Veteran
  39. POLICY: Two Scenarios … By Eric Novack
  40. POLICY: If You Can’t Beat Them, Beat Them Back By Thomas Leith
  41. POLICY: The Three Percent Myth By Eric Novack M.D.
  42. PHARMA: Can There Be Too Many Cures for Cancer? by Maggie Mahar
  43. TECH: If he beeps, he’s clean Bob By John Irvine
  44. BLOGS: Medpundit quits
  45. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: The beginning of the doughnut hole
  46. CONSUMERS/HEALTH PLANS/HOSPITALS/TECH: Consumer comparison tools, not exactly wowing the world as yet
  47. TECH: Conflict-of-interest! This is the best Modern Healthcare could do?
  48. POLICY: Last shot of the Cannon?
  49. TECH: Has net neutrality already ended?
  50. TECH: Physician IT use growing but not that fast
  51. HEALTH PLANS: Remembering the Halcyon days of yore
  52. BLOGS: Grand Rounds
  53. POLICY: Cannon has a point! No, just kidding
  54. INTERNATIONAL/CONSUMERS: Consumerism meets single payer
  55. THE INDUSTRY: Rick Scott-a man who’s career was barely alive, but he can rebuild himself. ($6 million will be cheap if that’s all it costs the taxpayer!)
  56. POLICY: Kaiser on CDHPs
  57. POLICY: Is Cannon facing reality on HSAs? Not exactly
  58. PHYSICIANS/POLICY: Physician Shortage Looms–hold onto your wallet
  59. POLICY/HOSPITALS/HEALTH PLANS: Jockeying for position via the pages of the NY Times
  60. POLICY: Joe says National health care is coming.
  61. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review
  62. POLICY: Porter and Teisberg–I remain baffled
  63. POLICY/POLITICS: Klein on Romney–Read my lips…
  64. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS/HOSPITALS: More on the punking of Milt Freudenheim
  65. POLICY: Shock-horror–I mostly agree with Arnold Kling
  66. THCB: My talk at PARC is up
  67. POLICY: Her Majesty’s Healthy Service
  68. POLICY: Low Payments by U.S. Raise Medical Bills Billions a Year

May 2006

  1. POLITICS: Bill Frist–A wonderful man and a great doctor who has never done anything worthy of criticism in his life!
  2. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: McKinnell’s friends turn and bitch-slap him, by The Industry Veteran
  3. QUALITY/INDUSTRY: Healthways buys Lifemasters
  4. TECH: PACS in 450 words or less!
  5. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: HDHPs are indeed appearing in big companies
  6. BLOGS: Grand Rounds is up
  7. POLICY/INDUSTRY: Money-driven Medicine , a sorta review
  8. HEALTH PLANS/HOSPITALS: United–not in enough trouble, goes looking for more
  9. POLIY/HOSPITALS: And if you can believe this…
  10. TECH: Neal Patterson: Optimist
  11. PHYSICIANS/PHARMA/POLICY: More Friday fun
  12. OFF-TOPIC: The most important world news
  13. TECH/POLICY/BLOGS: from PARC–GUI, Ethernet, the Laser Printer, and now….moi–Talking
  14. TECH/HEALTH PLANS/PHYSICIANS: Let’s hire this PR firm!
  15. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: More on the AMA
  16. TECH: Iinteroperability, Schminteroperability
  17. TECH: Phil Sissions on the NHS–Less there than meets the eye
  18. PHYSICIANS/TECH: The intransigence of the AMA knows no bounds
  19. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review is up
  20. TECH: TEPR musings
  21. Policy: The LA Times on Kaiser Permanente By John Irvine
  22. POLICY: Do No Evil, Part II.
  23. HEALTH PLANS/PBMs: Don’t be evil?
  24. BLOGS: Wefer-wee! Wefer-wee!
  25. HOSPITALS/PHYSICIANS: E-mail leads to doc lawsuit in Jefferson Health System
  26. QUALITY/CONSUMER/TECH: Health — On Demand by Pat Salber
  27. THCB: Shhh…go back to sleep
  28. HOSPITALS/TECH: Is the kiddie porn hysteria going too far?
  29. TECH/CONSUMERS: It’s care delivery that matters most
  30. POLICY/PHARMA: Cato calls the Republicans on the Part D deceipt
  31. PHYSICIANS/BLOGS: Disheartened? Maybe
  32. POLICY: talking about the inefficiencies of the insurance market…
  33. PBMs: Is the edifice crumbling–not yet!
  34. CONSUMERS/BLOGS: CDHC Conference
  35. TECH: Portals as health care integration platforms
  36. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: RAND study on the individual market puzzles me a little
  37. TECH: CDHCC Conf. Report Esther Dyson on start ups
  38. POLICY/POLITICS: THe NFIB and other conservatives who can’t do basic math
  39. TECH: Oops! Hospital loses 5,000 X-rays in hard-drive crash
  40. PHYSICIANS/POLICY/POLITICS: Malpractice insurance–much cheaper than 1986
  41. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review May 4 (actually May 8) edition
  42. PHARMA/POLICY: Yet more revisionism in Part D
  43. HEALTH PLANS/HOSPITALS: Kaiser needs to set up a major external review
  44. POLICY/PHARMA: Tierney on Limbaugh–A Taste of His Own Medicine
  45. HEALTH PLANS: Kaiser, kidney transplants, (sigh)
  46. BLOGS/PHARMA: The sexy world of drug reps–Have the link now
  47. OFF-TOPIC: And in today’s Bush Adminstration debacle
  48. CONUSMERS/INDUSTRY: Consumer health care conference in SF coming up next week
  49. TECH: Just in case you thought RHIOs had a business model..
  50. PHARMA/PHYSICIANS: Attacking the Rx data stream
  51. HEALTH PLANS/HOSPITALS: Kaiser gets beaten up in LA Times
  52. POLICY/POLITICS: Colbert’s speech and the press reaction.
  53. POLICY: A Conversation with Paul Fronstiin from EBRI
  54. QUALITY: The patient satisfaction trap by John Irvine , with rant from Ann Farrell
  55. BLOGS: Email problems again
  56. TECH: JSK on Remote Monitoring, Derek on Blockbusters
  57. QUALITY: Games For Health
  58. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: RAND shows that HDHPs will only havea modest impact
  59. JOBS: Positions at Telecare (Alameda, CA)
  60. TECH/PHARMA: Making use of patients while they wait
  61. QUALITY: Middle-Aged Americans Sicker Than British
  62. BLOGS: Enoch Choi’s fame knows no limits…
  63. POLICY/POLITICS: The McLaughlin Group Library : Transcript
  64. POLICY/INDUSRY: Scenarios and planning for them

April 2006

  1. Email trouble, UPDATE
  2. OFF-TOPIC: It’s spring, so paragliding season is back on
  3. HEALTH PLANS: Is this the top?
  4. POLICY: Email from Baghdad
  5. POLITICS/POLICY: Social mobilty, and its impact on health care politics
  6. OFF-TOPIC: Henry doesn’t deserve to be player of the year in England
  7. HEALTH PLANS: It’s blood on the streets today; but is the ride over?
  8. POLICY: Fishing and Finding Beneficial Solutions?
  9. TECH/BLOGS/OFF-TOPIC: Sorta happy ending?
  10. HEALTH PLANS: Blue Cross of California looks like its hand was in cookie jar
  11. POLICY: Meanwhile, remember love story
  12. POLICY/PHARMA/TECH/PHYSICIANS: The Industry Veteran thinks Uwe and McLellan are missing the point
  13. POLICY: Leif Haase on Many Roads to Rome?
  14. BLOGS: Grand Rounds is up
  15. TECH: “Connected Healthcare ” Panel on May 4th
  16. BLOGS: Comments CAPTCHAs
  17. POLICY/PHARMA: Part D–Lying with numbers
  18. POLITICS: Yet more on the politicization of the FDA
  19. HOSPITAL/PHYSICIANS/POLICY/POLITICS: Hubbard, transparency, clarity, earth & water, mixed
  20. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review #5
  21. POLICY: Durenberger/Stark
  22. POLICY: Hubbard, Bush’s guy on health care
  23. POLICY–Treasury Sec Snow
  24. POLICY/PHARMA: WHCC-Medicare Part D with AARP and CMS
  25. POLICY/INDUSTRY/TECH: WHCC–GE and leadership
  26. TECH: Employer-based personal health records
  27. POLICY-WHCC on Consumer health care (Bill McGuire/Brennan)
  28. POLICY: WHCC-McLellan and Reinhardt
  29. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review contributions needed
  30. TECH–WHCC: Personal health records
  31. TECH/INTERNATIONAL: Health care globally (mostly about the NHS)
  32. WHCC: Wiring the nation
  33. POLICY/INDUSTRY: WHCC2006 Employers and plans
  34. TECH/QUALITY/PHARMA: Active Health used by Mariott
  35. TECH: Just another EMR puff piece….on Cerner?
  36. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Another crazy doc in favor of single payer
  37. POLICY/THE INDUSTRY: Ethics 101, we’ve failed
  38. BLOGS/TECH: Blogposium starts today
  39. PHARMA/POLICY: Libby on the war on Pain Doctors
  40. THCB: Light today
  41. Happy Easter
  42. BLOGS: And on the subject of blog collaboration
  43. BLOGS: Report on health care blogs
  44. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Mother of all comment threads
  45. Spot-On: Matthew Holt: A Tale of Two Underwriters
  46. POLICY/PHARMA/POLITICS: Losing it with the WaPo
  47. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Full disclosure, well not really
  48. TECH: I’m almost becoming a journalist….
  49. TECH/BLOGS: One blog collaboration effort coming right up.
  50. POLICY: Joe Paduda on Sally Pipes
  51. TECH: Don’t buy your PCP an EMR, Mrs Worthington
  52. JOBS: Seeking SNFer
  53. POLICY: Can the real HSA fan, please stand, please stand up?
  54. POLICY: Is Romney the next ‘liberal’ governor of Massachusetts?
  55. BLOGS/POLICY: A Grand Roundup of UHC in MA
  56. POLICY: More on Mass, by Eric Novack
  57. POLICY: Universal health care passes in America!
  58. BLOGS: You Heard It Here First: April 2006 Edition
  59. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review #4
  60. PODCAST: Getting to grips with Grace-Marie Turner; well not exactly!
  61. POLICY: Massachusetts Set to Offer Universal Health Insurance
  62. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY/POLITICS: Geography-lock–Why can’t you move individual insurance to another state?
  63. BLOGS: A new tack for Grand Rounds
  64. POLICY/HOSPITALS: THCB agrees with Tenet, shock horror probe
  65. POLICY: Apalling drug war fascism
  66. PHYSICIANS: Doctors In Demand
  67. THCB: Thanks for coming, please keep it up!
  68. TECH: HISTalk has the scoop

March 2006

  1. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Mystery Pollster The AMA Spring Break Survey
  2. POLICY/FRIDAY FUNNY: Controlling Health Care Costs From the Bottom Up, By Michael L. Millenson
  3. POLICY: Nation’s Mental Healthcare System Gets “D” Grade, by Dr. Deborah Serani
  4. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review –Call for submissions
  5. HEALTH PLANS: More on buying individual health insurance, update on the Blue Cross cancellations
  6. POLICY/HEALTH PLAN: Yin and Yang – The wonderful world of health insurers
  7. TECH: JSK on PDAs, me on Epocrates, and eRx
  8. THCB: Crass commericalism
  9. POLICY/QUALITY: Sliding Down the Back Side of the Health Care Quality Curve: Who’s at Greatest Risk?, by Brian Smedley
  10. POLICY/PHARMA: Putting out fires…
  11. POLICY/PHARMA: Yup some do benefit from Part D. This is not news! And politically it won’t matter. with UPDATE
  12. PHARMA/POLICY: Medicare Part D, yet more to and fro, and some on the uninsured too
  13. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: Shalala and the janitors update
  14. TECH: Brailer takes weekend off in SF
  15. OFF-TOPIC: The ultimate theocratic fascist cashes in
  16. HOSPITALS: The transparency debate
  17. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review up at Kate’s
  18. OFF-TOPIC: And in a sign that Texas really is a police state
  19. POLICY: The New Republic gets it not-quite-right
  20. PHYSICIANS: Docs believing in God, not as many as you’d think
  21. POLICY: Pat Salber says we should change policy on food availability
  22. INTERNATIONAL: Exactly what care does a pregnant woman need? with UPDATE
  23. POLICY: I think Borowitz has got it
  24. PHARMA: Still decent growth on a pretty big number
  25. PHARMA: Brandweek on Pfizer, Pharmacia, HGH and Rost
  26. BLOGS: Grand Rounds is up; HRW submissions info here too
  27. POLICY/INDUSTRY: Posting prices is all we need–yeah, right. Paul Ginsburg on transparency
  28. HOPSITALS: Is there a built in profit in DRGs?
  29. PLANS/TECH/POLICY: WSJ finds a slight flaw in options awards
  30. POLICY: I ♥ Uwe Rheindhardt on “Skin in the game”
  31. TECH/QUALITY: Are laproscopes really dangerous?
  32. POLICY: Kinsley–Good grief! (with UPDATE)
  33. POLICY/QUALITY: The intellectual backdrop has been created for P4P
  34. POLICY/TECH: Gingrich Discusses Health Care
  35. TECH: Neurotech Industry Conference 2006
  36. POLICY: China and American health care
  37. BLOGS/TECH: Two new blogs worth checking out
  38. POLICY: Up at Spot-on about rationing
  39. THCB: Any budding reviewers out there?
  40. TECH: Can Medsphere prove the open source model in health care?
  41. POLICY: Up at TPMCafe about my favorite trade group
  42. POLICY/INDUSTRY: HSC on 10 years of change
  43. TECH: Of geeks and grandiose misunderstandings
  44. THCB: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
  45. HEALTH PLANS: Hey, wasn’t UHC supposed be nice now?
  46. PHYSICIANS/HOPSITALS/INDUSTRY: Customer service: are new market entrants showing the way?
  47. PHARMA/POLICY: In this game of monopoly drugs the market is working, oh yes
  48. PHARMA/QUALITY: New York Times discovers compliance
  49. White House Letter; An Outspoken Conservative Loses His Place at the Table – The Archive – The New York Times
  50. PHARMA/PHYSICIANS: Reimbursements Sway Oncologists’ Drug Choices, by Greg Pawelski
  51. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review
  52. POLICY/HOSPITALS/PHYSICIANS: Wennberg found wearing concrete boots at bottom of Lake Michigan
  53. THCB: A brief word about advertising and commercialization
  54. PHARMA: Pfizer, Rost and a look at off-label marketing
  55. POLICY: Klepper says, business is our only hope
  56. TECH: Patent trolls and cheating in court–the Crackberry saga
  57. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review — contributions now due
  58. POLICY: , Yet again caught up in the bluster of the drug war
  59. THCB: Health Care Reform Challenge
  60. OFF-TOPIC: Health tip of the day: don’t do this.
  61. POLICY: HSAs, what are they really?
  62. POLICY/POLITICS: The swiftboating of single-payer?
  63. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: Calvinists in the Medicine Cabinet
  64. OFF-TOPIC: Escapa!
  65. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: Shalala and the janitors (not a 60s doo-wop band)
  66. POLICY: Read these comments
  67. TECH: High tech in health care IT? Not exactly. by Roy Johnson

February 2006

  1. POLICY: Medical bankruptcy podcast
  2. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: The sensible way out for the non-profit plans
  3. TECH: Intel inside, but inside what?
  4. POLICY: Can Consumerism Save Healthcare? by Brian Klepper
  5. TECH: Reality check from HISTalk
  6. POLICY: How did this sneak into the WSJ?
  7. THCB: Friday’s out with the trash
  8. POLICY: Elsewhere, I’m talking about pooling and employer subsidies for Part D
  9. BLOGS: Health Wonk Review
  10. OFF-TOPIC: This is pretty funny
  11. Consumers: Patient Power Inc.
  12. TECH: WebMD, a little curious…
  13. Mike Magee, on How Are Insurers Handling Medicare Part D?
  14. PHARMA/POLICY: One estimate of what Part D is wasting, with UPDATE
  15. POLICY/QUALITY: Pat Salber on childhood abuse and adult health
  16. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: South Africa, the future of the US?
  17. THCB: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
  18. PHYSICIANS/TECH: Why diagnostic radiologists won’t make $400K a year forever
  19. QUALITY/PHYSICIAN/PHARMA: Test of Survival
  20. POLICY: Inside Intel’s Health Care System
  21. TECH: MrHISTalk on HIMSS
  22. TECH: HIMSS coming, coming
  23. POLICY: Well, this is obvious
  24. TECH: HIMSS – A view from the floor
  25. TECH: GotVoice–pretty cool message solution
  26. HEALTH PLANS/TECH/POLICY: Health plans and brokers — pathetic, pathetic, pathetic
  27. TECH/POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: Canada is more efficient user of MRIs compared to U.S., U.K.
  28. POLICY/POLITICS/INDUSTRY: Confessions of a Health Care Hitman?
  29. PBMs: More on the enigma of how PBMs make money
  30. PHARMA/TECH: Should big Pharma be blogging? by Shahid Shah
  31. QUALITY: Sam Nussbaum saying the time is now for P4P
  32. QUALITY: Milstein’s shark
  33. QUALITY/TECH: Brailer on IT in P4P
  34. QUALITY: P4P Round table
  35. QUALITY: Francois de Brantes from GE, runs Bridges to Excellence
  36. QUALITY: Brent James on Financial incentives for quality improvement
  37. PHARMA/POLICY: Suggestions for advancing beyond indignation & conventional wisdom, by The Industry Veteran
  38. THCB: Thanks for coming!
  39. POLICY/HOSPITALS: Outsourcing West Virginia’s Health Care
  40. TECH: CRM in health care, it’s about time
  41. PHARMA/POLICY: Anyone know about best price?
  42. POLICY: From the country that loves the HSA
  43. POLICY: I’m up elsewhere
  44. POLICY: Kevin Drum. Kevin Dumb?
  45. TECH: Live from the HISsies
  46. OFF-TOPIC/TECH: In the shower this morning I was thinking of going short, with UPDATE
  47. PBMs: Is PCMA learning AHIP’s tricks?
  48. QUALITY/POLICY: French fries for kids with their HSAs
  49. PHARMA/POLICY: Richard Paey’s case hits 60 Minutes

January 2006

  1. TECH/PHARMA: Words of wisdom on the infrastructure for prescribing
  2. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: High co-payments prevent needed care, and not in the US this time
  3. POLICY: ACP reccomends UK system
  4. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: Too much fawning over Len Schaeffer?
  5. POLICY: Should Medicaid come after your inheritance to pay for grandpa’s LTC? by Eric Novack
  6. POLICY: One more on Gratzer, Jon Cohn insists…
  7. POLICY: HSAs now will cure uninsurance! And monkeys will fly out of……
  8. POLICY: Re-print from The Economist on why Bush’s health care tax policy is all wet
  9. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: Health Insurers hold the keys, but wont use them to start the car!
  10. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: HSAs Triple in 10 Months, or is AHIP just blowing more smoke?
  11. PHARMA/HEALTH PLANS/PBMs/POLICY: Meanwhile Ignangi on drug pricing, best price and fraud
  12. PHARMA: McKinell’s over-Exubera-nce
  13. POLICY/POLITICS: Our fearless leader demonstrates his vast understanding of the health care system
  14. POLICY: Wealthy Floridians fear health care costs
  15. POLICY: Over at TPMCafe, Medicare Part D
  16. POLICY/THCB: Ron speaks
  17. PHARMA/POLICY: Drug coverage in Medicare Catastrophic (1988) and in the Clinton plan (1994), by MedPac
  18. POLICY: Medicare and HSAs: Ready for Their Close-Ups
  19. HOSPITALS/PHYSICIANS/POLICY: More data on specialty hospitals suggests the obvious
  20. QUALITY/PHARMA: Statins in the water in the UK, but generic ones
  21. POLICY/QUALITY: Assisted suicide, as rational as can be
  22. POLICY/POLITICS: Ezra Klein skewers the HSA, Joe Paduda skewers the CDHP, with UPDATE
  23. TECH/PHYSICIANS: Medtronic helps out whistleblowers, by The Industry Veteran
  24. TECH: JSK on Google
  25. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS/PHYSICIANS: Tierney with some optimism on the DEA’s war on doctors
  26. BLOGS/TECH: Bloggers meeting, sadly without me
  27. POLICY: The future of retirement
  28. THCB: Last call for submissions
  29. POLICY: Joe Paduda explains what’s wrong with Part D’s economics
  30. QUALITY/POLICY: Need an Organ? It Helps to Be Rich
  31. POLITICS/POLICY/PHARMA: Compare and contrast GWB and LBJ on Medicare
  32. PHARMA: The gift that keeps giving, or PhRMA being dumb and dumber
  33. POLICY: Busboys On The Street
  34. POLICY/POLITICS/TECH: Jon Cohn plays Gotcha on Part D
  35. BLOGS: Shahid Shah’s fame knows no end
  36. BLOGS: Why are you not sheep?
  37. POLICY/POLITICS/QUALITY: Supreme Court upholds Oregon physicians and patients rights
  38. PHARMA: Whistleblowing and more ways to make a buck in big Pharma, by The Industry Veteran
  39. BLOGS: MLK day
  40. (Slightly) OFF-TOPIC: Not in front of the children
  41. QUALITY/POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: Good article on pay for performance
  42. POLICY: Of course, you know, this means war!
  43. OFF-TOPIC: How much more ridiculous could US Skiing get?
  44. QUALITY/POLICY: Chronic care DM fails in a FFS world
  45. PHARMA: What will it really take for big Pharma to go Hollywood? by The Industry Veteran
  46. POLICY: And at Spot-on, why local pay or play is doomed, doomed!
  47. TECH: Outlook “update” is a backtrack
  48. OFF-TOPIC: Study–7 Percent of Workers Drink on Job
  49. POLICY/PHARMA/PBMs: Health spending collapses–all the PBMs doing! (No, not really).
  50. POLICY/PHARMA/PHYSICIANS/POLITICS: Some more publicity about the awful state of pain medication
  51. PHYSICIANS/POLICY/POLITICS: What else are they going to do?
  52. POLICY: Hmmm….Docs are always docs
  53. POLICY/POLITICS/PHARMA: Is Part D the begining of the end for Big Pharma? by The Industry Veteran
  54. BLOGS: Vote trawling at excessive levels
  55. POLICY/POLITICS/PHARMA: Inserting the DEA into End-of-Life Care
  56. INTERNATIONAL/POLICY/POLITICS: More rubbish on Canada
  57. POLCY: I’m on about uninsurance over at Spot-On
  58. INTERNATIONAL: Canada cuts waiting list by using management techniques
  59. QUALITY: Healthy for the New Year?
  60. POLICY/POLITICS: Let them eat cake
  61. BLOGS: Grand Rounds up at everyone’s favorite London amubulance guy’s place
  62. BLOGS: THCB forecast 2006
  63. BLOGS: Matthew’s end of 2005 letter

2005 515

December 2005

  1. BLOGS: Grand Rounds
  2. THCB: And in a piece of crass commercialism in the spirit of the season!
  3. OFF-TOPIC: Here’s your feel good story for Christmas
  4. PHYSICIANS/POLICY/POLITICS: Is cutting Medicare Part B fees a good thing? by Eric Novack
  5. TECH: JSK’s 2006 Health IT Forecast
  6. BLOGS: Shahid Shah becoming even more famous
  7. BLOGS/POLICY: My readers are way smarter than I am
  8. TECH: Interesting post on physician IT education
  9. TECH/CONSUMERS: Joe Paduda is nice to Steve Case
  10. QUALITY: Can a hospital CEO get us all to integrate (medicine, that is…)
  11. BLOGS: Grand Rounds up at Medpundit, and here next week
  12. POLICY: I’m up at Spot-on
  13. POLICY: Tax health care benefits, go on I dare ya!
  14. PHYSICIANS/PHARMA: Is academic medicine beyond salvage? by The Industry Veteran
  15. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL/PHYSICIANS: It’s not just here that doctors fees are an issue
  16. TECH: More on CPOE
  17. TECH: Cerner’s very rough days
  18. TECH: Christiana hospital knows where you are
  19. QUALITY/TECH: Bob Wachter on patient safety
  20. TECH/QUALITY: Leapfrog
  21. THCB: New feeds live!
  22. BLOGS: Grand Rounds coming here for an end of year special
  23. TECH: EMR comments
  24. TECH: Bloggers chasing own tails on EMR
  25. TECH: What? Were you expecting them to come out against it?
  26. POLICY: Ignorance is not bliss
  27. POLICY: Another balanced debate–what did you expect from the WSJ editorial pages?
  28. TECH: Just an excellent discussion from THCB readers
  29. TCHB: Jobs and requested people
  30. QUALITY: We spend how much on the NIH and how much on AHQR?
  31. THCB: Wussies–Tough? Try not drinking for a month
  32. TECH: Can doctors ever learn to love the EMR?
  33. BLOGS/POLICY: And over at Spot-on, c’est moi
  34. PHARMA: Looks like more good news for the Vioxx plaintiff bar!
  35. PHYSICIANS/POLICY/POLITICS: The AMA, as reliable as ever
  36. TECH/HOSPITALS: Mr HISTalk says “Does Cerner Millennium kill children? I don’t think so.”
  37. TECH: What’s wrong with health care IT
  38. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: The perils of the individual health insurance market…revisited
  39. OFF-TOPIC: In my dreams…
  40. INTERNATIONAL/QUALITY: U.S., Canada heart-failure mortality compared
  41. HEALTH PLANS/TECHNOLOGY: AHIP impressed with itself yet again, with UPDATE
  42. POLICY: It’s not just me saying that the individual market sucks
  43. PHARMA: Cox-2s–Really putting the boot in
  44. TECH: Mark Gaynor on sensor network
  45. TECH: Cindy LeRouge on using claims data in PHRs
  46. TECH: Mary Jo Deering
  47. TECH: Motorola’s view of seamless health
  48. TECH/POLICY: Steeve Kay on integrating disability via PHRs
  49. TECH/POLICY: Disability and PHRs
  50. TECH: Personal Health Records–a conference
  51. PHARMA: Pfizer fires Rost
  52. HOSPITALS/POLICY/TECHNOLOGY: More on the dodgy practices of the GPOs
  53. TECH: M&A in the Healthcare IT world reviewed
  54. BLOGS: Disappearing & Reappearing posts

November 2005

  1. POLICY: Health care reform competition
  2. PHARMA: Cheerleaders and sex-symbols
  3. BLOGS: Grand Rounds
  4. TECH: New health care IT blog nexus!
  5. TECH: iPods and Health Care
  6. TECH: More PHR struggles
  7. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: Obvious, but public and private taxes still cost money
  8. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: A European conservative complains, but groks the problem
  9. BLOGS: Turkey day
  10. THCB: Updating …
  11. POLICY: Employment-based healthcare, more of the same uneven erosion
  12. Policy: What is a transplant worth? By John Pluenneke
  13. PHARMA: Pain Therapeutics causes yet more headaches
  14. POLICY: CHCF report on Safety Net Clinics
  15. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: Medicare Part D–A mess that will need fixing when the grown-ups get back into power
  16. TECH: The evolution of wireless in hospitals
  17. FDA examining Oseltamivir risks by John Pluenneke
  18. PHARMA/POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: Not all the wingnuts are in the US
  19. POLICY: Yet more Dartmouth proof about doing too much
  20. BLOGS: FierceHealthcare, free and daily
  21. PHYSICIANS: One doc’s look at his own care patterns
  22. BLOGS/POLICY: Health Reform competition still on
  23. BLOGS: Ego surfing..
  24. TECH: Cerner stock keeps going up
  25. POLICY: Jamie Robinson on Managed Consumerism–innovative but missing the bigger picture.
  26. PHARMA/POLICY: GAO confirms the corruption of science forced on the FDA
  27. BLOGS: Typepad apologises for hassles
  28. POLICY/POLITICS: Health Reform may be back on the national agenda
  29. POLICY: Did you need more evidence that being poor and sick is bad for your financial health?
  30. PBMs: The future of PBMs–a work in progress
  31. PHARMA/PHYSICIANS/POLICY: Oncologists getting paid for reporting data they should report anyway, by Gregory D. Pawelski
  32. BLOGS: Open thread
  33. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: Slick Willie syphons off big Pharma
  34. PHARMA: How to be a great pharma salesman and do no work
  35. BLOGS: Grand Rounds
  36. POLICY: First Healthcare Reform Competition
  37. PHARMA: Jim Edward’s on big Pharma’s need to communicate about risks
  38. POLICY: Wal-Mart Seeks Unbiased Research — and Gets It
  39. INTERNATIONAL/POLICY: Sick patients in six countries
  40. PHARMA: More from James Gardner on the DTC hearings
  41. POLICY: Single payer advocate debate wing-nut
  42. POLICY/BLOGS: More slack crap from Medpundit exposes the big conservative morality lie
  43. POLICY: A tax proposal for fairness, but it’ll never make it, WITH UPDATE
  44. QUALITY/TECH: Another medical error in the headlines
  45. PHARMA: What next for DTC regulation? by James Gardner
  46. POLICY: The uninsured, health care costs, and the insurance industry’s vacuous response
  47. QUALITY/POLICY: Vince Kuraitis on Medicare DM
  48. BLOGS: Typepad apparently sucks
  49. BLOGS: Managed Care Matters is one year old

October 2005

  1. TECH: Just a little more about the PHR
  2. HOSPITALS: Friday Night Update by John Pluenneke
  3. POLICY/POLITICS/TECH/HEALTH PLANS: Trown out in the trash
  4. PHARMA/POLICY: The status quo versus the NHIN
  5. HOSPITALS: The specialty hospital party looks like it’s over
  6. PHARMA: Lowe on Pfizer
  7. POLICY: Wal-Mart caught with hand in cookie jar — affixs grin, and says “Look over there!”
  8. BLOGS: Grand Rounds is up
  9. BLOGS: Dilbert’s creator on blogging
  10. POLICY: NY Times opinion on Medicaid
  11. POLICY/CONSUMERS: Privacy and pizza
  12. POLICY: Cohn and the wanna-be abstinents, by Jonathan Cohn
  13. PHARMA/POLICY: Lowe on the FDA and Pargluva
  14. POLICY/BLOGS: Enthoven coming up on Novack show
  15. POLICY/BLOGS: More interesting stuff from the young liberals
  16. TECH: Mr HISTalk’s Thoughts on Clinical Systems: introduction (histalk.blog-city.com)
  17. POLICY: Abstinence and universal health insurance prove very popular
  18. TECH: PHR conference
  19. BLOGS: TCHB tech traumas over
  20. TECH: Privacy, standards, certification and RHIOs–more from AHIMA
  21. BLOGS: Wednesday dog blogging
  22. TECH/CONSUMERS: Tang on the unstated information therapy
  23. TECH: The latest from Brailer
  24. POLICY: You’re poor, you’re uneducated, you’re sick?
  25. BLOGS: THCB hosting prob
  26. TECHNOLOGY: Open Source EHR Katrina Relief Network: appeal for volunteers
  27. PHARMA: Can you trust Tufts and should we trust the FDA?
  28. TECH: Manhattan on PHRs. by Erica Fishman with UPDATE from Matthew
  29. QUALITY: Job at DM company Lifemasters
  30. POLICY/PHARMA: Pure drug war fascism
  31. TECH: A tawdry tale of practice management software gone south
  32. INDUSTRY: Health Care Mergers up
  33. TECH: PHRs, EMRs and pretty much useless surveys
  34. POLICY: Adverse Selection, a young liberal’s learning experience
  35. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: High-deductible health plans and how the employer does the math
  36. INTERNATIONAL: Monday morning world view
  37. PHARMA/QUALITY/PHYSICIANS: Rational sense on opioid use for cancer sufferers, with reference to Kinsey and rationalism.
  38. BLOGS: World Mental Health Day
  39. BLOGS/PHYSICIANS: Enoch Choi in New Orleans
  40. POLICY/POLITICS: Linking Katrina, Medicare Part D and bird Flu
  41. POLICY: Afternoon update by John Pluenneke
  42. QUALITY: DM has been counting it wrong but Al Lewis sets it straight
  43. PHYSICIANS/POLICY: Malpractice explained
  44. HOSPITALS: Sutter and Kaiser getting pissy, and fiddling while Rome burns
  45. THCB: Email problems
  46. TECH/BLOGS: HISTalk nails it again
  47. POLICY: Employer health insurance and stuttering efforts to delude the public
  48. HOSPITALS: How to play nice with workers, and how not to
  49. TECH: IDX and GE in a lovefest–We’ll see

September 2005

  1. CONSUMERS: Medicare Part D … as in Detail by Mr Jib
  2. CONSUMERS: A little help from my friends, by Mr JiB
  3. PHARMA: Senator Grassley, I presume? by Mr JiB
  4. POLICY: On von Eschenbach’s appointment, by Gregory Pawelski
  5. HEALTH PLANS: It’s too late Riker, they’ve assimilated them all….
  6. HOSPITALS/INDUSTRY: How stupid is Navigant really?
  7. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: Well at least he gets to put “former FDA Commissioner” on his resume!
  8. POLICY: Jamie Robinson on HSAs
  9. TECH/CONSUMER: Don Kemper wraps up
  10. CONSUMERS/TECH: Data and more impressions from Information Therapy conference
  11. HEALTH PLANS/TECH: PHR and CRM for health plans–finally on the way
  12. TECH/CONSUMERS: Kaiser and Renaissance, the big and the small
  13. TECH/CONSUMERS: Standards for consumer health info
  14. TECH: An Epic employee sounds off about EMRs and HSAs
  15. TECH/CONSUMERS/QUALITY: Information Therapy and care management
  16. POLICY: Paduda knocks back the maths behind HSAs
  17. PHARMA/PHYSICIANS: No Free Lunch gets in…
  18. CONSUMERS: Jessie Gruman on hammers and nails
  19. TECH/CONSUMERS: Holstein on Information Therapy
  20. TECH/CONSUMERS: Information Therapy, and a patient changing the world one baby at a time
  21. CONSUMERS: New category and Information therapy conference
  22. PHARMA: How to make a fortune in health care
  23. TECH: Special Prize for knowing this? (UPDATED and closed Weds at 4pm)
  24. PHARMA/PHYSICIANS: Trying to stop the biting of the feeding hand
  25. POLICY/POLITICS: The ugly side of American character revealed by Katrina, by The Industry Veteran
  26. BLOGS: Grand Rounds is up at SoundPractice
  27. TECH: JD Kleinke–the Arianna Huffington of health care
  28. HOPSITALS: Universal stopped from saving its people by FEMA
  29. TECH: Are stents a waste of money? Maybe
  30. THCB: PharmaBlogging
  31. TECH: Google, blogs, IT will save the day, blah blah
  32. POLCY: HDHPs, employer insurance and regulation the Cato Way | SignalHealth
  33. BLOGS: Grand Rounds is up
  34. HEALTH PLANS: Hidden gems for health plans in Part D
  35. PHARMA/INDUSTRY: Hurricane Katrina Direct Relief!
  36. PBMs: Are the rebate chickens coming home to roost?
  37. INDUSTRY/TECH: More ways to help Katrina victims: An open source response
  38. TECH/POLICY: Things to think about in Katrina’s aftermath
  39. POLICY/POLITICS: Blame for Katrina–enough to go around but it’s FEMA in the lead, with UPDATE
  40. TECH: Disaster recovery
  41. POLICY: Enthoven on the rational place for consumer choice in health care, and why CDHC is missing the point
  42. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: What to do about coverage in Katrina’s diaspora
  43. TECH: FEMA and the Wisconsin CHIN — incompetence together?
  44. POLICY/POLITICS: A harrowing story from Katrina
  45. TECH: Foundation for eHealth Initiative in a smidgin of trouble
  46. PHYSICIANS/POLICY: Another Podcast with Eric Novack
  47. HOSPITALS/POLICY/INDUSTRY: Katrina and the response
  48. INTERNATIONAL: Medpundit in another foolish attack on the NHS
  49. POLICY: Hilliard on Cato
  50. PHARMA: Blogging impact on pharma
  51. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: FDA Official Quits Over Delay on Plan B, with UPDATE
  52. CONSUMERS: Trade up players, but maybe not enough of them

August 2005

  1. CHARITY: Hurricane donations
  2. POLICY: Getting transparency in benefit costs, by Eric Novack
  3. BLOGS/PHARMA: John Mack on “ethical pharmaceutical marketing”
  4. BLOGS: Grand Rounds at Healthy Concerns
  5. PHARMA: The Industry Veteran, on what the Vioxx verdict means
  6. PHARMA: Vioxx–can we usher in a grown-up era?
  7. INTERNATIONAL/PHYSICIANS: Canadian doctors going home means the US sucks, n’est-ce pas?
  8. POLICY: Gladwell on Moral Hazard, with UPDATE
  9. POLICY: Klein on Gladwell on moral hazard
  10. PHARMA: John Mack on Merck
  11. PHARMA: WSJ on how Merck lost
  12. BLOGS: Another Podcast
  13. PHARMA: Merck gets PR makeover at opportune time?
  14. TECH: Open source EMRs — how open is open? And will it matter?
  15. test poll
  16. PHARMA: Brutal news for Merck
  17. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Is the Medicare reimbursement issue more serious this time?
  18. THCB: Podcast question
  19. THCB: The First Podcast–Erick Novack
  20. PHARMA/POLICY: Part D Sponsors Brace for Intense Competition for Seniors
  21. POLICY: Jill Quadagno on “A critical national competitiveness issue”
  22. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: Stronger Rules Sought on Association Health Plans – Los Angeles Times
  23. HEALTH PLANS: Fuzzy math from eHealthinsurance?
  24. BLOGS: Podcast coming
  25. POLICY: HSAs for Medicaid–cost-shifting to the poor by Theora Jones
  26. POLICY: Review of One Nation Uninsured
  27. HOSPITALS: Consultant in hospital facility management needed
  28. POLICY: Crossing state lines with unaccompanied healthy people
  29. BLOGS/TECH: Quick appeal for tech savvy
  30. TECH/THE INDUSTRY: Helppie sues ACS
  31. PHYSICIANS: How to easily increase access to care, by Eric Novack
  32. PHYSICIANS: Physician entrepreneurship
  33. INDUSTRY: What would you read?
  34. POLICY/BLOGS: Interesting Mass. policy by Abby , and new blog
  35. POLICY: While we’re on the subject of Medicaid
  36. POLICY: Medicaid as the route to universal insurance?
  37. TECH: The Dolphin Group
  38. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: Clinical trials corrupted by Wall Street
  39. POLICY: Where is that tipping point, by Brian Klepper
  40. POLITICS: Debunking the Drug War
  41. POLITICS: Denny speaks, sort of
  42. TECH/INDUSTRY: Top 10 Consultants
  43. POLICY: Debunking the latest drug epidemic
  44. POLICY: Employees want health insurance, not pay rise
  45. TECH: And in today’s weird story
  46. OFF-TOPIC: Bottled water is a bad waste of money
  47. PBMs: PBMs tell the truth while hiding the truth
  48. POLICY: Garamendi says California’s health care system is falling apart
  49. POLICY: Unusal book review–Voices of health reform
  50. HOSPITALS: Specialty hospitals make you rich, but everyone else is doing OK
  51. BLOGS: Happy Birthday to me

July 2005

  1. POLICY: Congress is slowly getting it together
  2. QUALITY: Voluntary error reporting system eventually rolls out of Congress
  3. HEALTH PLANS/PBMs: Wall Street loves ’em
  4. TECH: VistA, apparently free really means “cheap”, sort of
  5. POLICY: War on Pain doctors gets another scalp
  6. HOSPITALS: And while we’re on the subject of making too much money
  7. POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: Bruce Bodaken–as good as can be expected but…
  8. TECH: Accenture slams hand that fed it well in door, and then stamps on it
  9. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Medpundit spreads (perhaps legitimate) FUD on P4P
  10. POLICY: We need to separate the Medicare discussion
  11. TECH: Microsoft spreads Vista FUD
  12. POLICY: Immigrants use less care
  13. POLICY/POLITCS: Clintoncare — a quick review
  14. POLICY: The War On Pain Doctors gets to the big time
  15. TECH: Here comes VistA and eRx update
  16. BLOGS/TECH: Brief musings on technology
  17. POLICY: Data on abortion
  18. POLICY/POLTICS: Why Hillarycare failed…and what we need to learn from that failure
  19. PHARMA/POLICY: Quick Plan B update with UPDATE
  20. POLICY/QUALITY: A good round up of lefty propaganda, and Berwick gets a gong
  21. PBMs: Just to keep you up to date, with UPDATE
  22. POLICY: New York Medicaid fraud
  23. PHYSICIANS: Apparently Florida remains exceptional
  24. BLOGS: Medical Connectivity Consulting
  25. PHARMA/POLICY: Medicare Part D
  26. POLICY/POLITICS: The evolution of Hillary Clinton and the failure of reform in 1993 (TO BE CONTINUED)
  27. BLOGS/TECH:Sacred Cow Dung and physicians and technology
  28. TECH: PHRs for health plan members…maybe, maybe
  29. POLICY: Yup, it costs more here
  30. POLICY: Joe Paduda on consumer spending restraint
  31. POLICY: Individual insurance, sigh, with UPDATE
  32. TECH: The Switch is the trouble with CPOE and EMR
  33. TECH/POLICY: Why health care costs so much, part 37
  34. BLOGS: Hospital impact
  35. HEALTH PLANS: Mckinsey on CDHPs
  36. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: Individual health insurance — going cheap!
  37. HEALTH PLANS: United not big enough, needs to buy Pacificare
  38. PHARMA: What Peter Rost did over his holiday weekend
  39. POLICY: What is it that we wonks argue about?
  40. PHARMA/POLICY: Steeves responds to McGarvey
  41. INDUSTRY: HealthcareRenewal skewers Health Affairs
  42. POLICY: Thank God there’s no rationing here!
  43. POLICY: This weekend we celebrate Freedom!

June 2005

  1. QUALITY/POLICY: P4P get official in Businessweek, no less
  2. OFF TOPIC: Zola retires
  3. PHARMA/POLICY: More on Plan B and its relationship to the overall chaos at the FDA
  4. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: The Weekly Standard on moron support
  5. INDUSTRY: Scrushy verdict is in–He walks
  6. POLICY/QUALITY: The Nursing Shortage — It’s real
  7. PHARMA/POLICY/POLITICS: The FDA remains in tatters
  8. TECH: Conversation with Girish Kumar, eClinicalWorks
  9. POLICY: Why health care costs so much
  10. BLOGS: Guesting
  11. HEALTH PLANS: The Gadfly seems to have caused Kaiser real trouble
  12. POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: More rubbish being talked about single payer and Canada by major newspaper columnist
  13. INTERNATIONAL: The Future of Europe, Seen from a Sickbed
  14. HEALTH PLANS: Looks like Empire has caved
  15. TECH: Interoperability/schminteroperability
  16. POLICY: Now let’s remember a few basic things about Medicare, single payer, vouchers et al, with brief UPDATE
  17. HEALTH PLANS: Patient activism using the web
  18. POLICY: Another dribble on the single payer versus voucher issue
  19. POLICY: Single payer versus vouchers: somewhat missing the point
  20. HEALTH PLANS: Perhaps you shouldn’t click on every Google Ad, with UPDATE on underinsurance
  21. QUALITY: Want to avoid medical errors? Pick a profitable hospital
  22. QUALITY/TECH: CHCF on Chronic Disease Care
  23. POLICY: PRI has a blog, almost.
  24. POLICY: Fuchs and Emanuel on vouchers
  25. TECH: Firefox effed up?
  26. PHARMA: A start-up data success? IMS Health buys PharMetrics
  27. PHARMA: Is Pfizer’s Black Knight on the way out?
  28. BLOGS/TECH: THCB week off over, more or less

May 2005

  1. QUALITY/TECH: Better to have a bypass
  2. THCB: Comments on Mr HSA’s comments
  3. POLICY: On Social Class and Health Care by the Industry Veteran
  4. MORNING SCAN
  5. A Little Guidance on Guidant by Jib
  6. A Mistrial in the Scrushy case?
  7. Policy: Another take on HSAs by Jib
  8. Policy: Stem Cell Wars Afternoon Update
  9. Pharma: At last we talk about the issues! By Jib
  10. Policy: Stem Cell Wars, Episode III
  11. TECHNOLGY: Too much of a good thing?
  12. POLICS: Galloway vs. The US Senate
  13. INTERNATIONAL/QUALITY: The Brits are in court over “how much is enough?”
  14. THE INDUSTRY: Down to the wire for Scrushy
  15. TECHNOLOGY: ePrescribing is about renewals
  16. TECHNOLGY: TEPR and ePrescribing
  17. TECHNOLOGY: Rick Peters on why he’s frustrated
  18. TECHNOLOGY: On the (Wasatch) front lines at TEPR
  19. TECHNOLOGY: San Jose Medical Group data loss was inside job
  20. POLICY: The (Very) Odd Couple
  21. INDUSTRY: A little on the Advisory Borg
  22. HEALTH PLANS: Promoting HSAs, by Ron Grenier
  23. BLOGS: Open thread
  24. POLICY: Ignagni, AHIP, and the pesky fact checker that I am…
  25. HEALTH PLANS: Tiers’R’Us and the Blues in Minnesota
  26. POLICY: Walmart and Ignagni show why we’re so screwed
  27. POLICY: The Industry Veteran on Don Johnson and the conservative interpretation of reality
  28. POLICY: Why covering the uninsured matters
  29. POLICY: C’mon Don; how we going to fix this safety net?
  30. PHARMA: More smoking guns around Plan B’s no approval, by Blunter
  31. POLICY: What’s right about Krugman? What’s wrong about Don Johnson?

April 2005

  1. TECHNOLOGY: It’s IBM Week!
  2. HEALTH PLANS: I agree wth the NY Times in general, but perhaps someone should tell Wellpoint that they are doing badly
  3. PHARMA: DTC advertising works; not exactly a revelation!
  4. HEALTH PLANS: The Blues says that AHPs would Raise Costs, Won’t Reduce Uninsured
  5. POLICY: Now they are saying that there are fewer uninsured?
  6. PHARMA/PHYSICIANS: Smoking Gun on the Chemotherapy Drug Concession? by Greg Pawelski
  7. POLICY: Medicare to start real rationing
  8. PHARMA: Overstepping the line. Who could have known?
  9. PHARMA: Pay me more money or I’m moving my operations off-planet!
  10. PHARMA/POLICY: Another Canadian import to cause trouble?
  11. POLICY: Unrealistic, unfair mercatilism in health care.
  12. POLICY: Ezra Klein on Health Care in France
  13. Policy: A Break in the Florida HIV case By John Pluenneke
  14. PHARMA: Why is Crawford’s FDA nomination stalled?
  15. HOSPITALS: Hospitals on the verge of a nervous breakdown
  16. POLICY: Krugman on the international health care context
  17. PBM: Caremark apparently about to face fraud charges?
  18. PHARMA: Patients are stil “complieant”
  19. POLICY: Super Size This! By John Pluenneke
  20. INDUSTRY/POLICY: Diabetes primer
  21. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: It will stagger you to find out that health care competition may not result in better quality!
  22. HEALTH PLANS: Are there any winners from the high deductible games?
  23. HEALTH PLANS/PHYSICIANS: More patient confidentiality probs at SF Bay area institutions, with UPDATE
  24. PHARMA: Squaring the circle on Pfizer’s job cuts
  25. PHARMA: FDA orders Pfizer to withdraw Bextra
  26. POLICY/POLITICS: Wanna be physician of the year? Pay Bush $1,500
  27. BLOGS: Orac hosts Tangled Bank
  28. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Beauty Contest
  29. POLICY: Uninsured number will rise, but maybe not enough
  30. PHARMA: Where are the orphan cancer drugs? by The Industry Veteran
  31. POLICY: The high cost of health care
  32. POLICY/POLITICS: Congress acts in health care emergency

March 2005

  1. PHARMA/QUALITY: Can Cancer Care Get Better? by Greg Pawelski
  2. POLICY: Florida HIV mystery raises questions, by John Pluenneke
  3. INTERNATIONAL: The UK plans for a group practice future
  4. PHARMA: Two quickies
  5. PHARMA/POLICY: The NY Times misses the point on medicinal marijuana
  6. HEALTH PLANS/POLICY: Another terrible patient story
  7. PHARMA/PHYSICIANS: How to deal with the prostate conundrum
  8. PHARMA: Pain Therapeutics update
  9. HEALTH PLANS: KP Gadlfy update and my commentary
  10. BLOGS: Alter-lanche
  11. INDUSTRY/TECHNOLOGY: How GE Medical helped boost offshoring to India, with UPDATE
  12. PHARMA: Some funnies from the Pharma Marketing list-serv
  13. HEALTH PLANS: Kaiser/Gadfly update
  14. POLICY: Yet another shoddy article on single payer
  15. POLICY/POLITICS: Arnie, what a screw-up and what a disappointment
  16. BLOGS & BLOGGING: Excellent HIS blog
  17. OFF-TOPIC: More dumbness in dealing with disgruntled ex-“employee”
  18. PHARMA: Review of Overdosed America
  19. PHARMA/POLICY: Was Plan B Crawford’s ‘Plan B’ for Commissioner?
  20. POLICY: Klepper on Porter
  21. BLOGS: THCB sells out!
  22. HEALTH PLANS: Kaiser/Gadfly update, Fri, with early afternoon UPDATE
  23. HEALTH PLANS: Kaiser Gadly update, Thurs
  24. PHYSICIANS/QUALITY: Now it’s smoking too many old doctors kills you, by The Industry Veteran
  25. HEALTH PLANS: Kaiser Gadfly update
  26. POLICY/PHYSICIANS: Smoking too many specialists will kill you
  27. HEALTH PLANS: Kaiser patient data release spat update
  28. BLOGS/QUALITY: More ego surfing–me on DM in Pharma Executive
  29. POLICY: The NY TImes tries to make Cutler a star
  30. BLOGS: Grand Rounds up
  31. OFF-TOPIC: THCB’s favorite organization 100 today
  32. HEALTH PLANS: Health Scam for those desperate for cash…and I mean desperate
  33. PHARMA: The Industry Veteran on the new career choice for ambitious young pharma execs
  34. HEALTH PLANS: Kaiser’s Gadfly hits the big time
  35. POLICY/POLITICS: A despair at the lack of new ideas
  36. POLICY/POLITICS: Faith-based health care as the solution for the health insurance crisis
  37. BLOGGING: Minor IE screwup
  38. QUALITY/TECH: ePrescribing as part of P4P for Wellpoint
  39. TECHNOLOGY: HIT conference….Interoperability
  40. BLOGS and BLOGGING: Is Joe interesting
  41. TECHNOLOGY: And you thought drugs got on the market too quickly and easily?
  42. POLICY: Medicaid muddles on
  43. PBMs: Express Scripts net surges
  44. TECHNOLOGY: Nine Tech Trends and one big barrier
  45. PHARMA: DTC WARS, Epsiode IV (with more apologies to George Lucas)

February 2005

  1. PHARMA: John Mack on the Pharma Elephant in the FDA’s front room
  2. POLICY: Disappointing Presidential silence about illicit drugs reveals bankrupt policy ideas
  3. BLOGS AND BLOGGING: Teething troubles
  4. POLICY: Firing smokers? Who’s next?
  5. POLICY/POLITICS: Fast Times at NIH by John Pluenneke
  6. POLICY: More on the realities of the crisis of uninsurance, by Anonymous
  7. BLOGS AND BLOGGING: Grand Rounds is up
  8. BLOGS AND BLOGGING: THCB technologically reborn
  9. TECHNOLOGY: Informatics position at Highmark
  10. PHARMA: Celebrex can remain on the market
  11. PHARMA: The FDA, the new safety board and the Cox-2 debacle–an opportunity seemingly being lost
  12. BLOGS: Blogger boggered
  13. PHARMA/POLICY: The outsider the FDA needs is the consummate insider, with comment from Blunter
  14. TECHNOLOGY: HIMSS press release mania
  15. BLOGS/TECHNOLOGY: HIMSS staying in the 20th century
  16. QUALITY: Alternative approaches to diabetes, by Pamela E. Mack
  17. POLICY: Individual insurance market . . . . . still sucks
  18. PHARMA/POLICY: Deja vu all over again at FDA. But so blatant and so soon! by Blunter
  19. POLITICS: Do you remember Social Security on the campaign trail?
  20. POLICY/QUALITY: Triage at Abu Ghraib
  21. POLICY: Employers in California: ahead of the curve?
  22. POLICY: Harris finds that the nation’s health leaders are mostly out of ideas
  23. PHARMA: More guidance from the top of big pharma
  24. HEALTH PLANS: Calling the top to HMO stocks, again
  25. TECHNOLOGY: The EMR installation, a medical blogger case study
  26. PBMs: Caremark article questions the role of the PBM
  27. POLICY/POLITICS: Leavitt lays out his Medicaid stall and changes his tune
  28. POLICY: For wonks only, Medicare 101 and Medicare Part D explained
  29. TECHNOLOGY/POLICY: Medpundit on Frist’s flight of fantasy
  30. POLICY: More scenarios about the future of the system from The Industry Veteran

January 2005

  1. POLICY: Health costs and the road to Armageddon
  2. NEWS/BLOGGING: FierceHealthcare is back
  3. PHARMA: FDA stonewalls FOIA requests. by Blunter
  4. HEALTH PLANS: Kaiser will combine “systemness” with high-deductible plans, maybe.
  5. POLICY: 60 Companies Plan to Sponsor Health Coverage for Uninsured
  6. INDUSTRY: The Birmingham kid is innocent!
  7. QUALITY: Pawelski’s out of line in accusing the NCI by Oren Grad
  8. POLICY: Florida solves Medicaid cost problem (well, not really)
  9. QUALITY: Now cancer is top killer, let’s attack it using common sense, by Greg Pawelski
  10. POLICY: The VA is showing the way to better chronic care
  11. TECHNOLOGY/CONSUMERS: Body-Scanning Clinics didn’t make it
  12. QUALITY: Diabetes and the modern disease management girl
  13. PHARMA: Viagra apparently good for your heart
  14. PHARMA: NY Times reports on the apparent demise of Merck
  15. POLICY: Are we heading for a crash and can we turn the wheel?
  16. POLICY: Of confirmations, inaugurations, obfuscations, and Medicaid
  17. BLOG NOTES: Comments coming
  18. TECHNOLOGY: Road Map to a Digital System of Health Records
  19. PHARMA/POLICY: FDAWeb puts up whistleblower page
  20. HOSPITALS/POLICY: King-Drew in context, part II
  21. PHARMA/POLICY: FDAWeb puts up whistleblower page
  22. PHARMA/TERRORISM: Cox-2s as the solution to finish off Al-Qaeda
  23. PHARMA: The Industry Veteran on the chances of rational moderation from Pharma
  24. HOSPITALS/POLICY: King-Drew in context, part II, with Tuesday UPDATE
  25. PHARMA: Quick blog trawl, with UPDATE
  26. PHARMA: Herbert on the legal protection measure for big pharma
  27. PHARMA: The FDA can only be saved by new leadership, by Blunter
  28. TECHNOLOGY/CONSUMERS: iHealthBuzz–new site for community messaging
  29. PHARMA: The FDA can only be saved by new leadership, by Blunter
  30. PHARMA: Herbert on the legal protection measure for big pharma
  31. PHARMA: Quick blog trawl, with UPDATE
  32. POLICY: Social Security “reform” as a health care issue
  33. TECHNOLOGY/CONSUMERS: iHealthBuzz–new site for community messaging
  34. POLICY: Social Security “reform” as a health care issue
  35. POLICY/PHARMA/OTHER: Places to go find interesting stuff
  36. TECHNOLOGY: iPod as the new must-have for radiologists, with UPDATE
  37. PHARMA: Crestor briefly revisited
  38. POLICY: Experts believe uninsured are a priority….but for whom?
  39. POLICY: As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
  40. TECHNOLOGY: The BitTorrent Effect
  41. HOSPITALS: Uncharitable?
  42. PHARMA: 3 Quickies
  43. 2005 FORECAST: What to look out for this year
  44. PERSONAL: My end of year letter
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