The Curious Engineer

The Health Care Blog

2009

919 posts

← 2008 2010 →

2009 919

December 2009

  1. Welcoming immigrants and robots to fill the nursing shortage
  2. Making A List and Checking It Twice
  3. The Coming Clash over “Cadillac” Plans
  4. Is it Unconstitutional to Mandate Health Insurance?
  5. Voters Want Abortion-Neutral Health Care Reform
  6. States Should Have Flexibility to Develop Own Health Reform Plans
  7. As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
  8. Senate passes bill, more to come
  9. Why buy insurers stocks, When the Obama health bill would bankrupt them?
  10. How Will the Senate Bill Impact the Insurance Companies and Their Customers?
  11. 2009 Homeless Gift Guide
  12. Why Health Care Reform Is So Difficult in the United States
  13. Coal in Your Christmas Stocking?
  14. Enthoven beats up Gawande
  15. Virtual Medicine: The Lever That Just Might Save Independent Practice
  16. Interview with Alan Greene MD, author of “Raising Baby Green”
  17. Cool Technology of the Week
  18. Senate Deal on Health Care Bill Done
  19. Kate’s Counterpane
  20. Interview with Paul Taylor, renegade hospital CEO
  21. Health 2.0 Does Webinars
  22. Health Reform as Theater: Let Me Down Easy
  23. Improving the Harvest: Farming and Health Care
  24. MedEncentive’s Five Year Report
  25. Joe is kicking them when they’re down
  26. There Be Dragons: The Fiscal Risk Of Premium Subsidies In Health Reform
  27. Health 2.0 in Europe: Couldn’t? Wouldn’t? Does!
  28. The one hundred– a Boston Cancer Fundraiser
  29. Better Care Through Clinical Trials
  30. Your Money or Your Wife
  31. Program Director Healthcare IT
  32. Senate Compromise on Health Care Reform: Political Genius?
  33. Convergence and the Death of the Public Option
  34. Making (sh)it up as they go along
  35. Pelosi’s Hidden Tort Bomb — an Alternative View
  36. Abortion Should Not Imperil Health Care Reform
  37. Genetic Testing, Fact or Fiction: You Be the Judge
  38. 2009: A Year of Surprises and Change for the EHR Technology Market
  39. Four grumpy lefties with Laura Flanders
  40. Health Journos Protest FDA Interview Rules
  41. Deb Peel–Good Grief
  42. someone’s end
  43. webinars incoming!
  44. tweetdeck can bite me
  45. Why Wait Four Years?
  46. The Patient Safety Movement Turns Ten
  47. The Leaning Tower of Jello: Why No-one Believes Health Reform will be Deficit Neutral
  48. THCB is Proudly Sponsored By
  49. Death by a Thousand Cuts
  50. Paul Starr agrees with me (or I steal from him–take your pick)

November 2009

  1. Spotlight on Health 2.0: Consumer Aggregators from SF ’09
  2. Can’t A Man Grow a Mustache for Money?
  3. The post-reform insurance market, or will Mega survive?
  4. Karen Ignagni tells the truth, unfortunately
  5. Where’s the magic with electronic medical records?
  6. The Phony Price Tag for Health Reform
  7. Op-Ed: Major Reforms in the Financing and Oversight of Clinical Research Neededt
  8. Some conversations are easier than others
  9. Prevention is Not Only Good Health Policy, It’s Good Economic Policy
  10. Spotlight on Health 2.0: David Kibbe’s Motorcycle Tour
  11. Public Anxiety Meets The Democratic Effort to Get Health Care Done at All Costs
  12. Interview with James Currier, Medpedia
  13. So Much For Comparative Effectiveness
  14. So will the public option hurt hospitals? Not in the Ozarks
  15. This Just In
  16. Harvard Study Gets it Wrong on EHRs and Quality
  17. Organ Donors Shouldn’t Be Penalized
  18. The Health Internet vs. the NHIN — A Matter of Control, Cost, and Timing
  19. Sell Patients like Baseball Players – Seriously
  20. The Health Internet vs. the NHIN
  21. The Outlook for a Health Reform Bill in 2009
  22. Measurables and Immeasurables
  23. Will Business Force Reform Back To The Drawing Board?
  24. Abortion Coverage Is About Math As Well As Politics
  25. The FDA Steps In: Regulating Prescription Drug Promotion on the Internet
  26. Regina Holliday’s mural for Fred
  27. The Best Health Care Idea All Year
  28. Medicare’s Biggest Change in 40 Years on the Horizon?
  29. Dave Durenberger on Lieberman
  30. Intermountain – Proof That U.S. Hospitals Can Improve
  31. The Federated Health System of America
  32. Controlling Health Care Costs: How to “Bend the Curve”
  33. Spotlight on Health 2.0: The Patient Is In, from SF 2009
  34. Where were you?
  35. Tell the FDA the whole story, please
  36. Are We Too Small to Succeed?
  37. Modest step in the reform journey shows the idiocy of our political system
  38. We the Consumers
  39. “The possible” vs “what we want,” resumed
  40. Why “free market competition” fails in health care
  41. Healthcare Apps to make life better
  42. White House launches final healthcare push
  43. Back to Basics: Toward a Core Set of Relevant and Portable Personal Health Information
  44. Health 2.0 and AccessDNA
  45. Spotlight on Health 2.0: Launch! from SF 2009
  46. A “Third School” of Cost Containment?
  47. Conspiracy theory Friday (FDA & CCHIT related)
  48. Spotlight on Health 2.0: In The Doctors Office, from SF 2009

October 2009

  1. Time to put aside the intellectual disputes for now
  2. Why McAllen Should Have Mattered in the Health Reform Debate
  3. A Bill of Rights for Health Care Reform
  4. A Message to America’s Physicians: Purchasing EHR Technology A Shaky State of Affairs
  5. Senate Health Care Reform: Two Huge Problems, One Giant Red Herring
  6. Commentology
  7. Glen Tullman on EMRs, life, the universe and everything
  8. The Business of Prostate Cancer: Putting Profit before Patients
  9. What’s got lost in the public option kerfuffle
  10. State of Health Care Quality: Some States Better Than Others
  11. Health 2.0 Tools: The power of Twitter
  12. Health 2.0 – The Consumer Aggregators
  13. Hiding In Plain Sight: Using Medicare To Solve The ‘Public Option’ Conundrum
  14. THCB Update
  15. Who Should Tell Your MD What to Do?
  16. European Union Anti smoking Campaign
  17. Open Letter to Athena
  18. On Stage at Health 2.0: The Cats and Dogs of Health IT
  19. Last Chance to Fix the Exchanges
  20. Docs Wash Hands Like Guys In Gas Station Bathroom
  21. Good Intentions Aren’t Enough with Health Care Reform
  22. Silly Season: Monty Python Policy Making
  23. Change The Rules and Get Your Labs
  24. A Crucial Requirement To Cure U.S. Healthcare Long-Term: Curb Raging Inflation
  25. Why AHIP needs the public option
  26. Health Care Reform Lite
  27. Health 2.0 and the Big Bang
  28. Why Standards Matter 2: Health IT Enters a New Era of Regulatory Control
  29. What’s Next? Follow the Money
  30. Why is this the one thing?
  31. Will We Get a Health Care Bill in 2009?
  32. Physician Accountability for Violation of Safety Rules: The Time For Excuses Has Passed
  33. Ur Doin It Wrong
  34. Obama Administration CTO Aneesh Chopra at Health 2.0
  35. Shutting Down Social Media? Not Here.
  36. Op-Ed: Our Misplaced Faith in High-Tech Medicine
  37. Around the Web in 60 Seconds: Health 2.0 San Francisco
  38. Our Misplaced Faith in High-Tech Medicine
  39. Smoking and Mental Illness
  40. The Senate Finance Health Bill Has No Clothes
  41. Cool Technology of the Week
  42. The ugly, the bad, the very good and the great at the Health 2.0 Conference
  43. Health Internet – The New Consumer-Friendly NHIN
  44. THCB is sponsored by:
  45. Nursing a Health 2.0 Hangover
  46. Medicare and Health Reform: Part II
  47. The Long Tail of the EMR
  48. Health 2.0 Accelerator Demonstrates Integration of Consumer Web Apps and EHRs
  49. Op-Ed: Robot-assisted Surgery – The Leading Treatment for Prostate Cancer
  50. The Big Day for Health 2.0
  51. Podcast: Nathanial Findlay Tells Us What’s Next for Myca.
  52. Pop the Cost Bubble: Unallot Medicare
  53. Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Goals
  54. Olberman, hysterical hypocrisy expose
  55. JSK (national treasure) on data liquidity, and how it fits into Health 2.0
  56. Two big deals in Health 2.0
  57. Money-Driven Medicine film now downloadable
  58. Carrot or Stick? Should Patient Decision Aids Be Rewarded or Required?
  59. Can Social Media Save Healthcare Reform?
  60. The Health 2.0 Accelerator is really gunning it…
  61. I was largely in favor of Swiss-style health care…

September 2009

  1. Health Reform and Medicare: Part I
  2. Swine flu, uninsurance and not-so fondly remembering the teenage years
  3. Medicare Policy Might Discourage Proper Care for Hospital-Acquired Infections
  4. To Change Health Care, Change Diabetes.
  5. Morons like us
  6. Another Look: Incident Reporting Systems
  7. HIV/AIDS: The Future Looks Promising, but What About Now?
  8. Will Victory on Health Care Reform Mean Defeat for the Democrats?
  9. Medical Data in the Internet “Cloud” – Data Privacy
  10. HIPAA’s Broken Promises
  11. Catalyzing the app store for EHRs
  12. Capitol Shortage: Can the Two Democratic Parties Get It Together on Health Reform?
  13. Yet another reason to abolish the Senate
  14. What would actually work? Driving down the cost of health care
  15. Interview: John White, Director IT, AHRQ
  16. Regina Holliday: Fred’s life & death at 73 cents a page
  17. Commentology: Obama and End-of-Life Care
  18. Protest Music at AHIP meeting
  19. A Remedy for Healthcare Organizations
  20. Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO, talks Health 2.0
  21. “Reform” Means Higher Costs, Not Lower
  22. Health Care Outlook Not Improving
  23. Limited English Proficiency Shouldn’t Mean Limited Health Care
  24. Commentology: Government vs. Corporate Bureaucrats
  25. Medical Students Want You to Know
  26. Obama’s Medicare Half-Truth
  27. Balancing Consistency and Innovation in Healthcare
  28. What if I Had To Do HIT All Over Again?
  29. A little ain’t enough, or is it?
  30. Health care reform: econo-think, democracy and sustainability
  31. Good News for Uninsured Children Should Jumpstart Health Reform
  32. Advance Directives 101 – Do Not Call 911
  33. Health 2.0 Conference (Oct 6-7) latest
  34. Health Care Outlook Not Improving
  35. The Chairman’s Mark – Good Ideas, Potentially Fatal Flaws
  36. Nuts + Bolts – Advance Directives 101 – Do Not Call 911
  37. Medical Students Want You to Know
  38. THCB UPDATE
  39. Is an IOM v. CBO Smackdown Looming on Health-Reform Costs?
  40. Commentology: Improving Cost-Containment
  41. THCB is sponsored by:
  42. Washington DC conference and party!
  43. Obama’s Medicare Half-Truth
  44. Taxing Health Insurance Companies to Pay for Health Care
  45. Health 2.0 Conference
  46. CCHIT’s Latest Gambit
  47. CBO: HELP Bill’s Public Plan Not Much Help on Costs
  48. Protest songs in health care?
  49. What Voters Really Think About Evidence-Based Health Care
  50. Groupon, Livingsocial, and digital norms
  51. Recently on THCB
  52. Not Really an Option
  53. Reminding Washington of What the Health Care Debate is About
  54. Joint Commission Apes Newt, Takes on IHI
  55. The Speech: Could this have been what he planned all along?
  56. The Speech: Could this have been what he planned all along?
  57. Video: Obama addresses Congress on Health reform
  58. Economist: “A huge step forward. With one exception …”
  59. Immigrants, Health Reform, and “Lies”
  60. Public Still Backs the Public Plan
  61. 10,000 US physicians have something to say and we’re not wasting time.
  62. THCB is Sponsored by
  63. What Obama Must Demand from Congress on Health Care
  64. No Alternative: An Analysis of the GOP Plan
  65. Happy Trails, Trigger
  66. Healthcare Reform: Strangled In Its Bed
  67. Interview: TR Reid on healthcare reform around the world
  68. Transcript of Obama’s Health Care Speech (and the GOP response)
  69. Winners and Losers – Strategy in a Post-Reform World
  70. Getting Rid of “Friction” in Health Care
  71. Social Media: Disruptive Force in Medicine
  72. Our President is on the Ropes
  73. Betsy McCaughey’s Infected Advocacy
  74. THCB is Sponsored by:
  75. Capitol Shortage: Can the Two Democratic Parties Get It Together on Health Reform?
  76. The Right to Live
  77. Health Panels are a NICE Way of Improving Care and Controlling Costs
  78. Will Republicans Be Spoilers Or Problem Solvers on Health Care Reform?
  79. Tweaking Medical Education to Leverage EHRs
  80. After Reform
  81. Ornish Alienates HuffPo’s Class Warriors
  82. Time for a Closer Look (and Lower Costs)

August 2009

  1. The Health Care Cost Shifting Myth
  2. Separating Fact from Fiction and Health from Health Care
  3. Advice For State REC Planners
  4. Impact of EHRs on Medical Education
  5. Congressman Mike Rogers’ opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.
  6. THCB Classified: HIPAA Webinars-on-demand
  7. THCB TV: K.P.’s George Halvorson
  8. Expect to hear a whole lot about this…
  9. Here We Go Again – Again
  10. “Meaningful Use” Criteria as a Unifying Force
  11. Health Reform Bills Would Be Great For the Business Of Health Care
  12. What can $100 get you?
  13. We’ll be back here in 2016, unless
  14. Innovation and Absence of Evidence vs. Evidence of Absence
  15. “Meaningful Use” Criteria as a Unifying Force
  16. “Money driven medicine” on PBS tonight
  17. THCB TV: Mark Leavitt, Chair, CCHIT
  18. Can a Collection of Official Statements Be Called a “Blog”?
  19. Health Care Reform’s Deeper Problems
  20. U.S. v. Europe — What’s Your Risk of Dying?
  21. There Will Not Be Health Care Reform in 2009…
  22. The HIT Deluge Part I: The Need and the Opportunity
  23. Faces of the Fallen
  24. Donald Light sticks it to PhRMA and Tauzin, again
  25. SXSW–Vote for me, or those other guys!
  26. THCB TV: Jon Bush talks about the stimulus
  27. Commentology: Healthcare in the UK
  28. Data drives decisions? Crowd-sourcing as the future of research
  29. Death Panels, Palliative Care, and the Dangers of Modern McCarthyism
  30. Cool Technology of the Week
  31. Interview with Al Waxman, Psilos Group
  32. Not Just Personal Responsibility
  33. Commentology: Thoughts on the Death of Primary Care
  34. Why Standards Matter (1): The True Meaning of Interoperability
  35. Can Social Media Save Healthcare Reform?
  36. Neither Quick Nor Easy
  37. The opposite of that bridge to nowhere
  38. JSK & Joe DeLuca on KQED
  39. Science Is Leading Us to More Answers, but It’s Also Misleading Us
  40. Health Care Reform: What do People Really Want?
  41. Are Cooperatives a Reasonable Alternative to a Public Plan?
  42. Mississippi, Alabama – and the winner is!
  43. A Town Hall Meeting 3000 Miles from Washington, DC
  44. Barney Frank deals with the loonies
  45. Interview: Bob Wachter on reform, safety, primary care and everything
  46. Announcement: Money-Driven Medicine on DVD
  47. The Town Hall Effect
  48. Ditching the Public Option
  49. EHRs and Multi-Provider Use: Lessons from the VA
  50. Medical Data in the Internet “cloud” (part 2) – Data security
  51. Why Standards Matter (1): The True Meaning of Interoperability
  52. I am shocked, shocked that Rick Scott would twist the truth
  53. Enthoven’s ABCDs and why that socialist Gingrich is wrong on standardized benefits
  54. Will Hospital Stocks’ Rally Continue?
  55. Voices from the deserving mob
  56. Shocking Google Health Back to Life
  57. Tale of Two Health Crises
  58. Medical Data in the Internet “Cloud” (part 1) – Data Safety
  59. KP lawsuit doesn’t sniff quite right
  60. Which mob should we care about?
  61. Is “Cloud Computing” Right for Health IT?
  62. Shaking my fist at Jon Cohn
  63. How to Rein in Medical Costs, RIGHT NOW
  64. Fame! (In Canada only)
  65. Rx For Medical Research
  66. Palin: Obama Health Plan “Evil”
  67. AHLA on the Stark Law and its Revision: a Step Towards Holistic & Ethical Reform
  68. Announcement: Metropolitan College Offers Scholarship to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Patients and Survivors
  69. Kids Can’t Vote but Health Reformers Should Still Listen
  70. And the real reason health reform matters
  71. The Master and I agree on the goals
  72. A Practicing Doctor’s Prescription for Health Care Reform
  73. Dumb and Dumber
  74. Report Identifies Five Key Challenges to Health Information Exchange
  75. Kamen: Healthcare Debate “Backward Looking”
  76. Commentology
  77. Practice Fusion gets investment from Salesforce.com
  78. Here’s how Navigenics Health Compass works, part 1
  79. Finally, A Reasonable Plan for Certification of EHR Technologies
  80. The Case for Taxing “Cadillac” Healthcare Coverage
  81. Are “Cadillac” health plans the problem?
  82. Health-Care Reform and the “Culture Wars”
  83. Senate Healthcare Bill Amendment Allocates Your Tax Dollars To Quacks
  84. Within 3 launches new service
  85. Op-Ed: Health in All Policies
  86. Online behavioral health on American Well’s platform, and a hint at Cisco/UHG
  87. Sunday mumbles
  88. Say we get some sausage–then what?
  89. California Moves Backward on Covering Uninsured Children

July 2009

  1. Two rules by which to judge a health reform bill
  2. IDEO and Ix Innovation Design
  3. E-Health – It All Depends on How It’s Used
  4. Health Care Reform Coming Out of Senate Finance?
  5. Op-Ed: Sustainable Healthcare Reform
  6. Op-Ed: The Payoff from Preventative Healthcare: How disease screening saves lives and money
  7. E-Health – It All Depends on How It’s Used
  8. Sermo, malpractice, and Howard Dean
  9. Explaining Runaway Costs: The Lobster or the Salad?
  10. Illinois AG: Shady AIDS Charity’s Web Campaign Broke State Law
  11. Speculators Bet Reform Won’t Hurt Industry
  12. A Health Insurance Premium Tax Would be a Chicken Tax
  13. Live from Aspen: the moderates’ view on Obama health reform
  14. The Case for Price Ceilings for Health Services
  15. Health Reform and Obama’s Leadership
  16. Return to McAllen: A Father-Son Interview
  17. Interview with Jonathan Bush, AthenaHealth CEO
  18. The Case for Home Health Care
  19. Commentology
  20. Carleen Hawn debuts HealthSpottr and a list
  21. After Nurses Investigation, Scrutiny Turns to Other California Health Boards
  22. Costs v Coverage: Krugman gets it–Brooks is almost quite close
  23. Can HR 3200 Be Fixed?
  24. Rantology: Sympathy for the blue devils?
  25. Op-Ed: Reform- Why have our objectives been abandoned?
  26. Commentology
  27. Health “reform”: Lest we forget…
  28. The Doctor Is In and Logged On.
  29. Op-Ed: The Unintended Consequences of “No Pay for Errors”
  30. We love Paris in the Springtime: Health 2.0 announces Europe 2010
  31. A Wild Pitch: HR3200 Brushes Back Health Reform
  32. An Update to Meaningful Use
  33. Goldman Sachs, coming under fire but why should they care?
  34. GOP to Uninsured: Drop Dead
  35. House Health Care Reform: Ignoring the Elephant?
  36. Eliminating Medication Waste in Long-Term Care Can Help the White House Pay for its Health Plan
  37. Schwarzenegger replaces most of state nursing board
  38. Eliza gets a nice write up in BusinessWeek
  39. Costs Are Not The Same As Rates
  40. Op-Ed: Forward thinking health plans? Look for the guys with the white hats
  41. The Case for Comparative Effectiveness Research
  42. Nursing Homes Get Old for Many With Disabilities
  43. Musings on Payment Reform
  44. Behind the Curtain: Wendell Potter on the Industry’s Management of Care and Reform
  45. Announcement: 14,000 People With Diabetes Test Their Blood Sugar at the Same Time
  46. Fantasy League Baseball — Beltway Series Edition
  47. Has Harry Reid Torpedoed Reform?
  48. Op-Ed: Health Care Re-invention and Personal Responsibility More Critical to Reform than Government Intervention
  49. Head of Investigations Unit Resigns
  50. Why Congress Should Consider Bob Laszewski’s Health Care Affordability Model
  51. The Affordability Model
  52. Three Initiatives to Reduce Costs and Increase Health Care Efficiencies
  53. A Second City Warning to Obama
  54. Meaningful Use vs. Meaningless Adoption of Electronic Health Records
  55. The Tri-Committee Health Reform Bill: Implications for Children
  56. HELP! IS THE CBO GETTING SUCKERED?
  57. No Country for Old Men
  58. Washington Post’s “Salon” Disaster and Health Care Reform
  59. A Declaration of Health Independence
  60. The other Michael Jackson mega-mix
  61. Is Wal-Mart Leading the Charge on Health Reform?
  62. Sunday reading-Jon Cohn on French & Dutch health care
  63. Broad Agreement that Worker’s Comp Program for War Zone Workers Needs Fixing
  64. Careful What You Wish For
  65. HELP! This is Unbelievable
  66. Creative thinking about the CER agenda
  67. Drug Suspected in Michael Jackson Death Subject of Recall
  68. Commentology
  69. Biggest and best month ever on THCB
  70. Preventing Extortion

June 2009

  1. Implementing a Modern Hospital Website
  2. The Myth of Prevention and EHR’s?
  3. Rantology: Cannon on Freedom or Power?
  4. Unions May Get a Pass on Health Care Benefits Tax
  5. Health 2.0 NYC Chapter Meetup, July 9th
  6. The Message Is The Medium
  7. THCB Marketplace Beta Now Open
  8. A little more on insurers, and reform means more of the same
  9. And in reply to the ABC Obamamercial…
  10. A Costly Wrinkle in the Merged Market
  11. The EHR TimeBar: A New Visual Interface Design
  12. Data to the People
  13. Commentology: National Health Information Networks; What is the Benefit?
  14. Health Wonk Review: Confederations Cup Edition
  15. McAllen: A Tale of Three Counties
  16. In which I play Obama, answering Michael Cannon
  17. Paul Starr: way more eloquent than me
  18. It’s Not Just Doctors in Short Supply
  19. Op-Ed: A Social Democrat Weighs in on a Government Health Plan
  20. More bad press for Insurers. Will anyone care?
  21. The bleedingly obvious
  22. Bringing the Prius into American Medicine
  23. A Declaration of Health Data Rights
  24. A Dream of Reason
  25. “Meaningful Use” – If You Have to Define It, Is It?
  26. Time to Revisit Wyden-Bennett?
  27. Opening Physicians’ Notes to Patients
  28. Your AHIP Quiz Question of the Day
  29. Eight Signs that Wellness and Prevention have become Health Reform Priorities
  30. How Relevant is the American Medical Association?
  31. The Dumbest Thing I Have Ever Seen An Insurance Company Do
  32. The State of Meaningful Use
  33. Five Truths About Health Insurance: Public, Private, or Cooperative
  34. Back to the Drawing Board?
  35. Health Reform: A Poetic Update (With apologies to Judy Collins)
  36. Ezra says pusillanimousity has won
  37. Matthew went to Redmond, Pt 4: Nate McLemore
  38. We Need Southwest Airlines!
  39. Meaningful meaning? (with UPDATE)
  40. What Technology is Needed to Improve Care: EHRs or Registries?
  41. Rant: THCB transforms the New York Times, makes offer!
  42. Op-Ed: On Health Reform, Obama Faces a New Foe: Other Democrats
  43. An Open Letter to Dr. David Blumenthal
  44. The Journal of Participatory Medicine
  45. Beyond the Beltway – How Most of America Sees Health Reform
  46. Decoding “The Social Life of Health Information”
  47. The Road from McAllen to El Paso
  48. Clinical Groupware: When Not-As-Good Is Actually Better
  49. President Obama Addresses the AMA
  50. FDA Regulation of Tobacco Called ‘Death Sentence’
  51. Obama vs Hillary at the AMA
  52. The Right to Share
  53. Interview with Hal Luft, author of Total Cure
  54. Video: Matthew went to Redmond, Part 3: Mike Raymer, Amalga
  55. THCB alum going gone places
  56. Quick Sunday roundup or “OMG I agree with Tyler Cowen”
  57. The House Tri-Committee Bill—The Playing Field Just Moved Back to the Middle
  58. David Gratzer is Nice. Dennis Kucinich is not.
  59. Designing an Effective Insurance Exchange. Or Not.
  60. The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield
  61. Op-Ed: How I’ve Missed the AMA….
  62. Op-Ed: It’s the Waste, Stupid.
  63. What “reform” legislation will achieve
  64. Health Care Cooperatives–An Old New Idea–So What’s a Blue Cross Plan?
  65. Problems with IE? Try Firefox or earlier versions of I.E.
  66. A Special Reform Edition of Health Wonk Review
  67. Interview with IPC The Hospitalist Company’s Adam Singer
  68. The Health Industry’s Achilles Heel
  69. Canadians? Not as good as us!
  70. Matthew went to Redmond, 2–Bert van Hoof, HealthVault & devices
  71. Matthew went to Redmond, part 1– Bill Reid, Healthvault
  72. Gawande Nails It on Healthcare Costs
  73. Commentology: The President’s Letter to Kennedy and Baucus
  74. Alex Drane — Engage with Grace
  75. Launch! LiveStrong.com Calorie Tracker
  76. HIT Adoption – Alignment & Simplification
  77. Cool Technology of the Week
  78. The Mission 2 End Diabetes
  79. Data-Driven Health Care: An Interview with Jerry Reeves, MD
  80. The National HIT Organizations – How it All Works
  81. Healthcare Unbound in Seattle, WA June 22-23
  82. The Myth of the Cadillac Plan
  83. By the numbers, on single payer the Democrats are wussies
  84. Are Today’s EMRs Up to the Job?
  85. MedPac on Steroids
  86. Do the Dems Have the Money to Pay for Reform?
  87. Michael Porter–seduced, converted, or bludgeoned into accepting reality?
  88. Calendar: NIH Conference on the Future of Telehealth June 25-26, 2009
  89. Catalyzing the app store for EHRs
  90. PHRs, The Model T, Meaningful Use and the Patient-Centric HIT Revolution
  91. Should We Open the VA to All Comers?
  92. The Infrastructure Chronicles
  93. Is Hospital Peer Review a Sham? Well, Mostly Yes
  94. American Well gets busy with guidelines, Optum
  95. Launch! Healogica–Clinical Trials Recrutiment service
  96. The Kennedy Plan
  97. Calendar: Health 2.0 NYC Chapter June 11, 2009 Meeting Announced
  98. Hostility Towards Scientists And Jenny McCarthy’s Latest Video
  99. Nothing Personal
  100. Call for Submissions:
  101. Kaiser Health News Debuts Today and Features an Important Insight Into a Likely Health Care Bill

May 2009

  1. Death to Innovators – The Tragedy of Healthcare Innovation
  2. CER Council requests public comment
  3. Cool Technology of the Week
  4. Cal Blue Shield wins recision case, but it’s very, very strange
  5. Calendar: Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication
  6. Helping Each Other Take Care of Each Other
  7. Workers Ungrateful for Empowerment to Pay More
  8. The Great $2 Billion Cost Cut “Promise” Meets Another Obstacle
  9. Raising Legitimate Questions and Concerns About Health IT Certification, Without Getting Personal
  10. What’s good for General Motors is good for America
  11. Certifying Health IT: Let’s Set the (Electronic Health) Record Straight
  12. X PRIZE Blog Rally: $10M for Health Care Innovators
  13. I’m not sure that’s how Uwe meant it!
  14. Money-Driven Medicine—N.Y. Premiere of Film, June 11
  15. Thomas Kuhn, Health Care Reform and Vascular Disease
  16. Sword-swallowing and health care?
  17. Beyond Wikipedia
  18. How to Waste a Boatload of ARRA Money
  19. Bringing Patients into the Health IT Conversation About “Meaningful Use”
  20. Healthcare IT Checkup
  21. AMA Manual of Style is Now Online
  22. THCB is Sponsored by:
  23. Directus – Create your own CME with the sources you trust
  24. 5th Annual Games for Health Conference 2009 in Boston, June 11-12
  25. The Cost of Health Reform – $1.5 Trillion or … ?
  26. PHR Evolution
  27. Unlikely conversation partners
  28. The Red Flags Rule
  29. More on HITECH , Microsoft mea culpas, Google, et al
  30. Disgusting, and another reason why marriage needs to be re-defined
  31. McKinsey weighs in on healthcare reform
  32. Health Care Leaders Say Obama Overstated Their Promise to Control Costs
  33. Reconciliation — or War?
  34. Marketplace
  35. Octomum gives Kaiser a bellyache
  36. SharpBrains Releases 2009 Market Report
  37. Connecting finance to coverage
  38. UPDATE from the FRESH-Thinking Capstone Conference
  39. Should Health Care Standards be Open Source?
  40. The Chronic Pain Educational Educational Workshop in Berkeley, CA – July 19th, 2009
  41. Op-Ed: Leave it to Darwin?
  42. Connecting value to coverage: a first glimpse
  43. The Two Trillion Dollar Promise: Can We Trust It?
  44. Vaccine refusal, or Jenny McCarthy, better with fewer clothes on
  45. TV stardom (well, sorta…)
  46. Beware the Bursting of the Health Care Bubble
  47. Humor: Voluntary Cost Control? Never Mind!
  48. Me & Mr Jones, (Jr.)
  49. Healthcare as a Complex Adaptive System – Part 2: Eight Points
  50. Health Care Stakeholders to Pledge $2 Trillion in Reductions
  51. Healthcare as a Complex Adaptive System
  52. Tie Meaningful Use Definition to Desired Behavior
  53. An Open Letter to the New National Coordinator for Health IT: Part 3 — Certification As The Elephant in Health IT’s Living Room
  54. Project HealthDesign and Health 2.0 Accelerator
  55. RFID EMR Pioneer Says “RIP”
  56. Defining “Meaningful Use” of Health IT
  57. MedicExchange
  58. The Health IT Stimulus and FQHCs — Don’t Forget About Us!
  59. Op-Ed: Cost-Reduction Strategies Help Hospitals Weather Economic Uncertainty
  60. Jonathan Teich, CMIO, Elsevier
  61. Andy Hurd, CEO, CareFx
  62. Luis Machuca, CEO, Kryptiq
  63. The End of Dr. Marcus Welby
  64. Of Healthcare and Toilets
  65. The Stimulus Package and Health Data Exchange
  66. Interview with Navinet, CEO Brad Waugh & VP of Marketing, Kendra Obrist
  67. Calendar: Project HealthDesign
  68. Meaningful Health Data Mining – How will we regulate consumer-driven research and advice?
  69. The Parable of the Wicked EMR
  70. Community: Project HealthDesign

April 2009

  1. Interview with Sage Software, Lindy Benton, COO & Maureen Peszko, SVP
  2. Commentology:
  3. Community: Online Bone Marrow Drive
  4. Op-Ed: Patients first. Doctors second.
  5. Medicity, CEO Kip Lassetter and SVP Robert Connely
  6. Medicine’s Missing Foundation for Health Care Reform
  7. A.D.A.M., Inc Launches New iPhone Application, Medzio
  8. Roni Zeiger on what Google Health is doing next
  9. Capstone conference, May 14: Fresh thinking on health care reform
  10. Op-Ed: Seven Strategies to Address the Nation’s Health Care Crisis
  11. Where’s THCB’s share of the money? Or does Stuart Browning feel left out?
  12. Health 2.0 Met Ix….
  13. Blog Rally for Roxana Saberi and others
  14. Reforming Long-Term Care and Post-Acute Care Could Save Billions
  15. Health 2.0 vs. Ix Therapy
  16. An Open Letter to the New National Coordinator for Health IT – Untying HITECH’s Gordian Knot: Part 1
  17. A Shout out to our sponsors
  18. Should You Keep Your Own Medical Records?
  19. Op-Ed: Health care reform is within reach
  20. Health 2.0 Meets Ix–Tweeted
  21. MedEncentive: a breakthrough in healthcare cost containment
  22. An Open Letter to the New National Coordinator for Health IT: Part 2 – Opening the Aperture of Innovation
  23. LOHAS Forum June 17-19th, 2009 Boulder, CO
  24. Medicine’s Missing Foundation for Health Care Reform: Part 5 – Patient Autonomy
  25. Medicine’s Missing Foundation for Health Care Reform: Part 4 – Harvesting Medical Knowledge from Patient Care
  26. Medicine’s Missing Foundation for Health Care Reform: Part 3 – Economy of Knowledge in Decision Making
  27. Medicine’s Missing Foundation for Health Care Reform: Part 2 – Medicine and the Development of Science
  28. A.D.A.M intros Medzio Mobile Health Partners
  29. Health 2.0 Fuels the Accelerator
  30. Mayo & Microsoft–a big name collaboration, with even more potential to come
  31. It’s Amy Tendrich’s birthday, time for Grand Rounds
  32. What is the Physician’s Role in a Web-based World?
  33. Surface–eye candy or really useful clinical tool?
  34. Like Us, Personalized Medicine is More than Its Genes
  35. Jay Parkinson, Hello Health & Myca, talks about the new release
  36. Health 2.0 Meets Ix, and other gossip
  37. Social insurance is the key & h20tv.com
  38. The Public Plan–Mutual Assured Destruction?
  39. Following the Science To A New Era In Medicine
  40. Op-Ed: Dropping Cancer Death Rates and the Role of Radiation Therapy
  41. Rich Noffsinger, AnvitaHealth
  42. NaviNet (nee NaviMedix) explains all
  43. An Economics Lesson From Erectile Drugs
  44. X-Prize Foundation CEO Dr. Peter Diamandis
  45. Participatory Democracy, Participatory Medicine
  46. The Biggest Health Care Controversy on the Hill
  47. Interview: Microsoft Health Solutions
  48. For the skeptics who think Health 2.0 tools don’t matter…
  49. Next Generation Healthcare Analytics
  50. The Doctor Is In and Logged On.
  51. American Well bags BCBS Minnesota
  52. The Path of Five Fallacies
  53. Herzlinger–Enthoven was right all along
  54. The public’s belief in scientific uncertainty and the importance of the social health Internet
  55. Commentology:
  56. Cats and dogs on film–Tullman, Leavitt, Bush
  57. Interview with Mark Leavitt
  58. Interview with Jon Bush
  59. A liberal is a conservative exposed to the NHS
  60. A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Continuity of Care Record Gains Ground As A Standard
  61. Around the Web in 60 seconds
  62. Op-Ed: Surgeon Shortage Worries Rural Doc
  63. Health 2.0 NYC Chapter Meetup
  64. CLASSIFIED: Valida Primary Care – Investors in Primary Care Practices
  65. Building Health into the Delivery System, Take Two
  66. How Do We Build Health 2.0 Into the Delivery System?
  67. Op-Ed: No Need for Alarm Over Need for Foreign Nurses
  68. Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson on reform and life after IT
  69. Psilos Seeks $450 Million Health Care Fund, Defying Crunch
  70. Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts
  71. Advances in Online Care and Telehealth
  72. It’s, err, gulp, HIMSS time
  73. Dennis Quaid Overlooks Too Much
  74. Andy Slavitt, Ingenix
  75. Op-Ed: Let’s Pay Nurses Minimum Wage!!
  76. “Mr. Obama, Tear Down These (Hospital) Walls”
  77. Commentology
  78. Response to “Doctors Raise Doubts on Digital Health Data” S. Lohr NY Times
  79. From Health 2.0 meets Ix: A Breathtaking Display of Possibilities
  80. National HIT Symposium at MIT, June 29 – July 2, 2009
  81. The Hive Mind
  82. On Clinical Groupware, Interoperability and the HITECH Bill
  83. Holt accepts Beltway role, pledges new era of ‘personable responsibility’
  84. Commentology > More On Natasha Richardson
  85. Whose Data is it Anyway ?
  86. Health 2.0 NYC Chapter, has meeting, needs a place!
  87. BIDMC, Google Health and the data transfer problem

March 2009

  1. Imagining the Possible
  2. So what’s the real usual, customary and reasonable price of care?
  3. Will CIGNA Remake The Health Plan Marketplace?
  4. Sustainable Healthcare Reform
  5. Leave Natasha Richardson out of the health care debate
  6. Commentology
  7. Classified: 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge
  8. Health 2.0 Meets Ix–The Great Debates
  9. Patient-based Health Reform or “Fannie Med?”
  10. CLASSIFIED: Yale School of Management’s Healthcare Conference 2009
  11. The Hawaii Health 2.0 Chapter meeting
  12. A Research Agenda for Participatory Medicine and the Connected Medical Home
  13. Karen Ignagni lie of the day, part 68
  14. PharmaSURVEYOR
  15. Two Birds With One Stone: Covering the Uninsured by Fixing Medicare
  16. A Healthcare IT Primer
  17. Health Care Reform: Ideology, Self-Interest and Rhetoric
  18. Drug war lunacy–Connecting the Dots
  19. Narrow Networks – Part II
  20. The Public Program Impasse: A Proposal
  21. Commentology
  22. Health Wonk Review, up and intense at HealthBlawg
  23. Life in the Goodman bubble
  24. Bluementhal is new health IT czar
  25. Don’t think anything is certain on the reform front
  26. Those Goody Goody Canadians Not So Good
  27. Tom Epstein, Blue Shield of California, on the hot seat
  28. Pharma vs. Devices – FDA, Supreme Court and Liability Whiplash
  29. Jonathan Cohn on the internal politics of Obama’s health care plan
  30. For whom the HITECH Bill Tolls?
  31. Bill Maher explains why government-run health care is a good idea!
  32. A Sticky Solution to a Sticky Problem
  33. I shake my fist at Clay Shirky!
  34. Op-Ed: Pathway for FOBs Should Balance Need for Competition and Need for Innovation
  35. Another Look: The Wal-Mart and E-ClinicalWorks Deal
  36. Today’s NEJM Hospitalist Study: What’s the News?
  37. Controlling Health Care Costs by Seduction
  38. ARRA: A New Era for Health IT, and for CCHIT – Part 1
  39. The New Landscape of the Health Reform Debate
  40. Is the Healthcare Economy Rightsizing?
  41. Commentology
  42. My forecast: a sad conclusion to the health care bubble…
  43. Stimulus Modeling and Accountability
  44. Health Affairs is all about IT
  45. The Role Speech Technology Can Play in Helping to Streamline the EHR Transition
  46. Better Records On Our Cars Than Ourselves?
  47. Innovation + Economics: Keys to Successful Healthcare Reform
  48. A Broker’s Lament: We Brought This On Ourselves
  49. Online care….from Hawaii to Wall Street (journal only so far!)
  50. Marketplace
  51. Five Recommendations for an ONC Head Who Understands Health IT Innovation
  52. Why and How Secretary Sebelius Should Avoid a Network Monopoly
  53. Value-Based Insurance Design and Medicare Part D – A Perfect Match?
  54. Google Health sharing–simple but potentially important
  55. Classified: iConecto Delivers Engagement
  56. Classified: Leadership Summit on Member Retention for Health Plans
  57. Classified: Fair Managed Care
  58. Classified: Health Support Systems
  59. Gupta said to be out of running in Surgeon General race
  60. Frances Dare explains HITECH, really well
  61. Comparing the Effectiveness of Comparative Effectiveness Research
  62. Reform? Marginal, I fear…
  63. Grand Rounds, up, pithy
  64. How to Win Docs and Influence Patients
  65. Kathleen Sebelius, Healthcare Reform and the Budget
  66. Classified: Fair Managed Care
  67. HIMSS still raising that neutrality question
  68. Health care reform : What we can learn from Costco
  69. Commentology
  70. The President’s Budget
  71. Health 2.0 more interesting than porn!

February 2009

  1. The Obama Health care Budget
  2. Are We Mature Enough to Make Use of Comparative Effectiveness Research?
  3. For the Obama Administration Health Care Reform Will Require Tough Cost Containment
  4. Novel Data Sources for Quality Improvement
  5. Commentology
  6. Making Price Competition Work
  7. I really don’t understand Wall Street, part 98
  8. Musings on Integrating Care at the IOM
  9. Consumers Need All of the Facts in the Privacy Debate
  10. Dartmouth Atlas — cool new tool
  11. Why Technology is No Longer Optional in Public Health
  12. Medpedia: Who gets to say what info is reliable?
  13. Health costs increase despite recession
  14. Commentology
  15. Getting “the CCHIT question” wrong
  16. Health reform for health’s sake
  17. Finding a Faster Route From Patent to Patient
  18. Making Price Competition Work
  19. Economic Forces Reshaping Medicare Drug Benefit
  20. Open Source Health Research
  21. Commentology
  22. Raising the Price Before You Put It On Sale
  23. Betsy McCraker misses the point, again
  24. Yelp: The Backlash Begins…
  25. Disruption breaking out over at Scott Shreeve’s place
  26. A Randomized Trial of Niceness in the ER and Other Stories
  27. Unpacking ARRA
  28. Skipping out on America’s future
  29. Divided we might get somewhere, but not yet
  30. Connecting the dots–Uninsured people are poor!
  31. Commentology
  32. Fear and Loathing over the Stimulus Bill
  33. Just OK Quality or “The Best”?
  34. Massachusetts doctors say single-payer or bust
  35. Job Post: Causality Inc.
  36. CASTING CALL: The Future Role of the Doctor
  37. Podcast: Blues VC fund invests in Phreesia
  38. Calendar: The Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009
  39. An Interview with Lynn Jennings, CEO of WeCare TLC, an Onsite Clinic Company
  40. Checklists (The Sequel)
  41. Commentology
  42. The Japanese Dr. Koop
  43. The Stimulus Pregame
  44. Why Clinical Groupware May Be the Next Big Thing in Health IT
  45. The Expansion of the Federal Health Care Bureaucracy Bill
  46. A Consumer Advocate’s Take On the Economic Stimulus and HIT
  47. Frances Dare, Cisco’s optimist, and KP’s Garfield Center
  48. Commentology
  49. 10 Simple Rules For a Non-adversarial Healthcare System
  50. Missing in action: The National Coalition on Health Care
  51. A Business Case to Tackle Obesity
  52. Beyond disgusting
  53. Check Out The TED Talks
  54. A Shared Roadmap and Vision for Health IT
  55. A Shout-out to our sponsors
  56. Someone sit Michael Cannon down before telling him this!
  57. I’m the Man of the Month, really!
  58. Locating the “Medical Home”
  59. Commentology
  60. Certification versus Meaningful Use
  61. Grand Rounds
  62. Jon Cohn: Obsessed with baseball and a hopeless optimist
  63. How Goo-Goos Listen to the Grassroots
  64. Health Wonk Review
  65. State of the Nation
  66. Stimulus bill offers docs big incentives for technology, but demands effective use
  67. Commentology
  68. Saving Medicare Advantage the Easy Way
  69. The AMA Wins a Round Against Accountability and Patient Information
  70. Calendar: Fourth National Pay For Performance Summit
  71. Daschle out at HHS – Sharfstein in at FDA?
  72. The Case for Ron Wyden
  73. Berwick “Perfectly Designed” for HHS Secretary Post?
  74. The Perils of Play or Not Pay
  75. Op-Ed: Why the Senate should be abolished, Parts 34-36
  76. Two-year SCHIP fight over with Obama’s signature
  77. Obama remains committed to health reform, White House official tells wonks
  78. Carmona could be logical pick for HHS job
  79. Mythology and Healthcare Reform
  80. Calendar: The Haas Business of Health Care Conference Feb. 7th 2009
  81. My Desktop Economic Indicators
  82. A Question For You Privacy Wonks Out There
  83. Dr. Who?
  84. Univita buys Enurgi (with a little explanation about the future of long-term care…)
  85. Cortese said to be candidate for CMS job
  86. Interview with Tracey Moorhead, DMAA
  87. Freenomics and Healthcare IT
  88. Saving Health Care, Saving America
  89. A Brief History of the R Word
  90. Good grief! Will this derail the latest reform push?

January 2009

  1. Consumer-Driven Health Care: Promise and Performance
  2. Report Shines Light on Long-Term Care Spending in Medicare
  3. Commentology
  4. Moving forward on SCHIP
  5. Uwe Reinhardt on why Canada is better
  6. And in today’s scuttlebutt–Sutter pay grades
  7. Five Reasons For Hope
  8. Calendar: The Smartest (Healthcare) Guys in the Room
  9. At Families USA, progressive optimism reigns
  10. A Transparent Health Record
  11. How to read articles about health and health care
  12. A whole lot more Medicaid, but there’s a catch
  13. A tale of two pilots
  14. The New Science of Vascular Disease
  15. CEOs’ Urgent, Shared Commitment to Change
  16. The Virtual Health Home
  17. The British are revolting!
  18. Is Medicare backpedalling on evidenced-based medicine?
  19. Heard around the Web
  20. The Siren Song of Public Programs
  21. Is Healthcare IT Ready for its Big Coming Out Party?
  22. Please, do not ban reference-based pricing
  23. Announcements: Nudging people to better health with innovation
  24. Commentology
  25. Advert: The Haas Business of Healthcare Conference
  26. Dr. George Lundberg for Surgeon General
  27. A Shout Out to Our Sponsors
  28. Trackers – you can use Zume yourself at last (and others too)
  29. It’s the platform, stupid
  30. The Truth About Health IT Standards – There’s No Good Reason to Delay Data Liquidity and Information Sharing
  31. Nomination for U.S. Surgeon General
  32. Rationing — how will it be spun?
  33. When You’re a Wonk, You’re a Wonk All the Way
  34. Healthcare Reform Should Include Connected Health and Participatory Medicine
  35. Doubts about Gupta for Surgeon General
  36. Cats & dogs: Can we find unity on health care IT change?
  37. Strategic Implementation of the NHIN
  38. Online communities helped psoriasis sufferers
  39. Johns Hopkins professor presents on improving patient-physician communications
  40. The greatest health care IT generation
  41. Op-Ed: Healthcare Reform Lessons From Mayo Clinic
  42. Five “Shovel-Ready” Health Care Reforms
  43. Op-Ed: Jump-Starting Health IT – Best $20 Billion You’ll Ever Spend
  44. Health 2.0 Meets Ix–Earlybird pricing ends tonight at midnight
  45. A Buried Medical History — 20 Years to Adopt a Critical Prostate Cancer Tool
  46. The Importance of Being Charles Grassley
  47. Commentology
  48. Why It is Inevitable That the Debate over Health Care Will Be Partisan
  49. Job Post: Social/New Media Director
  50. Ceasefire reached in Boston
  51. An Interview with Matthew Holt
  52. Health care wins in initial stimulus package
  53. A Doctor’s Toast to the New President on the Eve of His Inauguration and on Martin Luther King’s Day
  54. OP-ED: The MRI Safety Gap
  55. As Medical Tourism Grows, Hold On We’re In For a Wild Ride
  56. OP-ED: Small Business and Health Reform
  57. Health IT and the Stimulus Bill
  58. A Shakespearean Approach to Health Care Reform
  59. Commentology
  60. Health 2.0 Group Chicago, meets Thurs 15th
  61. Unpacking the Ingenix Settlement
  62. Health 2.0 Will Benefit from Obama’s HIT Stimulus
  63. Disruptive Physician Behavior: Fact vs. Frenzy
  64. My top 10 rules for Email Triage
  65. Tone deaf git of the month award
  66. Confessions of a Cultural Anthropologist: The Cause and Cure of High Health Costs
  67. The anti-Dimitriy!
  68. New NRC Report Finds “Health Care IT Chasm,” Seeks New Course Toward Quality Improvement and Cost Savings
  69. Free Trade and Free Antibiotics
  70. Commentology
  71. Meet the New (Acting) Boss, Same as the Old Boss
  72. Eric Novack has a few questions….
  73. The Year in Research according to RWJF
  74. Welcome To Health Wonk Review – 1/09/09
  75. Should the FDA relax in the search for new cures?
  76. Persistent Nondiagnosis
  77. “The Innovator’s Prescription”: Christensen’s Book Offers Insightful Dx, Unrealistic Rx
  78. Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General? Not so fast.
  79. The Five Myths of Healthcare Reform
  80. Commentology
  81. Shocker–Karen Ignagni almost tells the truth
  82. Poizner: talks tough, wimps out WITH UPDATE
  83. Confusing ‘Standards’ With ‘Interoperability’–Lessons For The 111th Congress From HIPAA
  84. Cool Technology of the Week
  85. Whata Gupta Fuss
  86. Let’s Reboot America’s Health IT Conversation Part 2: Beyond EHRs
  87. The demise of Medicare Health Support
  88. Viciously Vladeck
  89. The big Twitter Health care list
  90. Let’s Reboot America’s HIT Conversation Part 1: Putting EHRs in Context
  91. The Broken Window Effect
  92. Commentology
  93. Not exactly health care, but follow the money…
  94. Reprise….Critical of Critical
  95. Outlook for health stocks clouded by uncertainty about Obama’s health strategy
  96. A me-too strategy for me-too drugs
  97. A new year’s resolution for greater hospital transparency
  98. Can the physical examination save us from the dehumanization of medicine?
  99. The Downfall of AIG
  100. Matthew’s end of 2008 start of 2009 message

← 2008 2010 →