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December 2010

  1. The Tea Party Conservative Strategy for 2011
  2. 2011 beckons; Matthew’s personal end of year letter
  3. Failure is Not an Option
  4. Value (Outcomes/Cost) –A Unifying Concept for Health Reform?
  5. Value (Outcomes/Cost)–A Unifying Concept for Health Reform?
  6. Twas the Night Before [HIT] Implementation
  7. Health IT: The Year In Review
  8. The Difficult Science, Part II
  9. Tweetcasting @2011 : Health Reform Implementation, Mobile Health and Patient Safety
  10. Geolocate This
  11. Playing Tetris Cuts Flashbacks in PTSD
  12. The Difficult Science
  13. Hospitalist Co-Management Of Neurosurgery Patients
  14. U.S. Health Care & U.S. Productivity: A Dissent
  15. Who Cares?
  16. THCB Recommends …
  17. New Law Lets the Feds Sponsor Prize Competitions
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  19. Send in the Clowns!
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  21. Health 2.0 News launches
  22. THCB recommends…
  23. How VCs Use Advice From Experts
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  25. Conflicted
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  28. 500 Meetings a Day
  29. Support THCB
  30. THCB recommends…
  31. Don’t Tell, Don’t Ask
  32. THCB recommends…
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  34. Human Farming & the Limits of Medical Research
  35. THCB recommends…
  36. Job Post: THCB Editorial
  37. Job Post: THCB Web Development/WordPress
  38. Job Post: Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Policy Director
  39. Job Post: Health Policy Coordinator
  40. THCB recommends…
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  42. The Measurement Question
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  45. Winners of the NCI Health 2.0 Developer Challenge!
  46. THCB Recommends …
  47. Social Security as a model for the Affordable Care Act’s future
  48. Social Security as a Model for the Affordable Care Act’s Future
  49. Two Degrees of Freedom
  50. THCB Recommends …
  51. Loser Pays
  52. Between the Cracks
  53. Health 2.0 San Francisco – Tim O’Reilly Keynote
  54. Using An App to Confront Your Metastatic Melanoma
  55. Goodman’s Law
  56. Thoughts on the PCAST Report
  57. Will Avatars, Robots, and Video Games Replace Doctors?
  58. Will ACO IT Models Be Walled Gardens or Open Platforms?
  59. Welcome to the Cloud Clan
  60. High Stakes Health Reform – Employers: In or Out?
  61. High Stakes Health Reform – Employers: In or Out?
  62. Health 2.0 Announces its Starting Five for the 2011 Developer Challenge
  63. The Grinch that Stole Obamacare
  64. To Die Well
  65. Selecting an EHR for the Patient-Centered Medical Home
  66. Great Ideas: Improving Healthcare Infrastructure
  67. Sticker Shock
  68. Letter From London
  69. Facebook Saves Woman’s Life: Newt Gingrich and Reality-Based Healthcare Systems Planning
  70. Year End Pondering
  71. More Can Also Be Less: We need a more complete public discussion about comparative effectiveness research
  72. The McVictim Syndrome Could Kill Us
  73. Bending the Curve, Beginning with Birth
  74. $978 American Dollars
  75. The Next Generation of Communities Part 2: Integration Within the Delivery System
  76. Spent
  77. Analysis: Aetna Jumps into HIE Market Acquiring Medicity
  78. Healthy People 2020 Participates in the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge
  79. Is My Canadian Online Pharmacy Really in Canada?
  80. HIT Trends Summary for November 2010
  81. McAllen and El Paso Redux: New Evidence from the Insured Under-65 Population
  82. American Healthcare X
  83. The Problem with Free Market Healthcare
  84. The Wrongologist
  85. Slow Medicine
  86. The Cost of Care
  87. Three Ultrasounds
  88. Managed Care 2.0
  89. Do EHRs Kill People?
  90. If I Ruled the World
  91. The Libertarian Mind
  92. Blood Test Surprise
  93. Friends, with Benefits
  94. Understanding Medicare Reimbursement?
  95. FTC Proposes New Safeguards for Online Privacy
  96. Publicity is Cheap, Privacy is Expensive
  97. The Non-Scalability of Charisma
  98. The Conservative Way Forward on Health Care

November 2010

  1. Are prescription drugs going the way of Napster, YouTube and iTunes?
  2. The preview of the Health 2.0 Accelerator Apps Network is now available on video
  3. The Cost of Success
  4. SF 2010: Keynote Address from Jeff Goldsmith
  5. The Ryan/Rivlin Plan
  6. Is This Normal?
  7. “Don’t Litigate, Innovate.”
  8. Healthcare Messages Over the Internet: The Direct Project
  9. The Bond Markets and Health Care Financing
  10. Engage with Grace at Thanksgiving
  11. Could It Be That Patients Aren’t Any Safer?
  12. Thanks Giving
  13. The Too Informed Patient
  14. THCB Recommends …
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  16. The Doctor Will Sync You Now
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  19. The Penguin Problem
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  21. Health IT and the Other Disparities
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  23. The Decade-Long Journey To NEJM Case 34-2010
  24. THCB recommends…
  25. The Congressional Shift and Health IT
  26. THCB recommends…
  27. Announcing the Health 2.0 2011 Conference Schedule
  28. Meaningful Meaningful Use
  29. Have We Found the Magic Acronym?
  30. The Fine Print
  31. Augmenting My Reality
  32. The Seduction of Primary Care
  33. Biotech Grant Funding: Are a Few Crumbs Better Than No Crumbs At All?
  34. Saving the Good in Healthcare Reform
  35. Hospital Price Dispersion
  36. Rating the Raters: Physician Compare
  37. Cousin Jimmy Syndrome
  38. Health 2.0 Fall Conference Videos
  39. Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Hospitals: A Time for Action
  40. S.M.A.R.T. Objectives: An Essential Step in Strategy Formulation
  41. Health Reform Won’t Fix the Real Problem: Unemployment
  42. HUB’s List
  43. Hospital Discharge Without a Net
  44. EHRs in Surgical Practices
  45. The Road to Wellville: Pilots and Demos?
  46. Unhealthy Skepticism
  47. Massachusetts has the best health care in America?
  48. The HIT Parade
  49. The Road to Repeal?
  50. Paper Is Good … Pass It On
  51. Top 10 Developments That Give Me Hope About Future of Health Care
  52. Does This ACO Thing Really Mean We Need to be ‘Accountable’?
  53. Alzheimer’s Disease: The $20 Trillion Enemy We Must Not Forget
  54. Suzanne Delbanco on the new Catalyst for Payment Reform
  55. Physicians, Nurses and the Coming Transformation of our Health System
  56. mHealth: Is It a Market?
  57. AMA Opens Online News Archive
  58. Job Post: THCB Editorial
  59. Doctor Patient
  60. HIT Trends Summary for October 2010
  61. The War Between the States
  62. Dartmouth Launches New Degree Program in Health Care Delivery Science
  63. The Race is On for the Next Generation of Healthcare
  64. THCB Healthcare Marketplace
  65. Health Care and the 2010 Midterms
  66. An issue, guaranteed
  67. The $6-an-Hour Health Minimum Wage
  68. Wachter: Three Stories
  69. Sharing the Burden
  70. A Prevention Revolution
  71. Friends, Fatigue and the Slow Slog Back
  72. The Swing to the Right: The Election and Its Effects On Health Reform
  73. Money and Healthcare Reform
  74. Swamp Creature
  75. From Progressive to Zombie Legislation after Midterms?
  76. Eric Dishman talks about Intel in health
  77. Patient Engagement on the Med-Surg Floor
  78. The EMR Cage Match Results
  79. The Electronic Medical Home
  80. The Republican Landslide and the Affordable Care Act
  81. Laying on of the Hands
  82. Can we get physicians to use modular apps?
  83. Dismantling the Cottage Industry
  84. Contemplating Safety While Lying Down
  85. Mike Barber, GE Healthymagination
  86. Privacy Paradigms: From Consent to Reciprocal Transparency
  87. Companies Clearly Won’t Stop Hiking Health Care Coverage Premiums
  88. Job Post: Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Policy Director
  89. PPACA Premium Subsidies: The Government Is Here to Help You!
  90. Steve Krein talks OrganizedWisdom

October 2010

  1. Losing Patients With Insurers
  2. Connected Healthcare: Wellness and Emerging Technology
  3. THCB Recommends …
  4. So That’s How The Rates Are Set
  5. Engage with Grace
  6. Health Insurance and Life Expectancy
  7. Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon Finalist: Team Transpera Health
  8. Alexandra Drane doing Engage With Grace at TEDMED
  9. Privacy Paradigms: From Consent to Reciprocal Transparency
  10. Confessions of a Health Literacy Expert
  11. Saying No to Mammo
  12. The Shame of Malpractice Lawsuits
  13. How Come Comparative Effectiveness Research is All the Rage?
  14. SureScripts, A Defacto NHIN
  15. Dear Mr. Smith…..
  16. Suing the Right to Life
  17. Crossing the ROAD to Real Reform
  18. Teamwork Training in Healthcare: More Than Just Kumbaya
  19. How Reform Law Funds Itself, Strengthens Medicare, and Cuts the Deficit: Part 1
  20. NCI’s Abdul Shaikh on Challenge for Enabling Community Use of Data for Cancer Prevention and Control
  21. How Health Services Researchers Can Harness Data : Discussion at Health Innovation Week, SF
  22. The Politics of Health Reform
  23. Medicare Costs Rise, Health Outcomes Suffer When Seniors Are Over-Medicated
  24. San Francisco 2010: Qpid.me Demonstration
  25. PBM Industry Reforms can Reduce Wasteful Health Care Spending, Protect Patient Choice of Pharmacy
  26. Doctors, Hospitals and the Yankees
  27. San Francisco 2010: Launch of ShareCare
  28. The Health Reform (Almost) Everyone Loves
  29. HIE Guide for the Perplexed
  30. San Francisco 2010: iWantGreatCare Demonstration
  31. A Prescription For Doctors
  32. San Francisco 2010: Regina Holliday Presents her Painting
  33. What’s Your Platform?
  34. Hospitalists as Extensivists
  35. NDM-1: Why Should the U.S. Care?
  36. Care Coordination Metrics: One Can of Worms that NEEDS to be Opened
  37. ACOs and the Looming Antitrust Crisis
  38. The True Health 2.0 Unmentionables
  39. Republican Economics as Social Darwinism
  40. San Francisco 2010: First Life Research at Health 2.0
  41. Tugging on Superman’s Cape
  42. First Bend in the Health Care Cost Curve
  43. Northwestern Memorial Hospital Faces a Brave New World
  44. The Massachusetts Connector: Success or Just a PR Coup?
  45. Letting the Data Flow, Part One
  46. Physician Report Cards: Don’t Shoot the Messenger
  47. Patients 2.0 – The Growing Demographic of Networked Patients
  48. Healthy Eats For Data-Hungry Doctors
  49. The Health 2.0 Connection
  50. Calling Dr. Berwick
  51. Too Many Promises
  52. Health 2.0 Conference 2010: Day 2
  53. Health 2.0 Conference 2010: Day 1
  54. Sex, Drugs & Rock’n’Roll Health 2.0
  55. West Wireless Health Institute Awards $10K Developer Challenge at Health 2.0
  56. The Madison Avenue Approach to Health Policy
  57. Customer Service
  58. Update on Modular EHR Technology: Harvard’s SMArt Research
  59. Patients 2.0, HealthCamp and Health 2.0
  60. THCB recommends
  61. What is a Patient?
  62. Reckless REC Wrecking
  63. THCB Recommends
  64. Seeds of Destruction
  65. A more palatable path to rationing
  66. “What is… Wegener’s Granulomatosis?”
  67. HIT Trends Summary for September 2010
  68. Health Innovation Week Press Conference, TODAY 11.15

September 2010

  1. Health 2.0 Reveals the Winners of the 2010 Developer Challenge
  2. The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Live Code-a-thon
  3. Is REC a Future Train Wreck?
  4. Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Winners/ Code-a-thon /Conference
  5. THCB Corporate Sponsors Include:
  6. Unconscious in the Emergency Department
  7. THCB Recommends …
  8. Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Winners/ Code-a-thon /Conference
  9. ClearPractice’s Nimble brings a comprehensive EMR to the iPad
  10. Another Devastating Diagnosis to Face
  11. Consumer Groups Shut Out of Comparative Effectiveness Board
  12. The History and Future of Medical Technology
  13. How the Future of Healthcare Will Actually Work: Nuts and Bolts
  14. Why There’s An Enthusiasm Gap: An Illustration
  15. Caring
  16. New Study Proves Reducing Healthcare Costs While Improving Care Is Achievable
  17. Accountability, Accountable Care Organizations, and Human Mindsets
  18. Profit-seeking Health Insurers Seek Profits
  19. Risky Business
  20. Live Health 2.0 Code-a-Thon at Google, Oct 2
  21. Mau-Mauing the Medical Loss Ratio
  22. Petitioners Ask OSHA to Regulate Resident Physician Work Hours
  23. Diffusion of EHR Innovation
  24. Because it’s on the Interwebs, it must be true
  25. THCB Corporate sponsors include
  26. Vic Fuchs Speaks!
  27. Health 2.0 Europe: Alensa Demonstration
  28. Five Big Ideas that Shaped Health Reform
  29. Health 2.0: The Pew Internet and American Life Project
  30. Google Hits Reset Button on Google Health
  31. Health 2.0 Europe: Deep Dive by Pfizer
  32. Sickening People
  33. Health 2.0 Europe: Keynote Address by Pieter Vos and Jolyn van Vuuren
  34. Human Resources and Surviving Health Reform
  35. THCB Recommends
  36. NYC Train Station Bathroom Yields Cleaner Hands than Hospitals
  37. The Health Insurance Purchase Mandate: Peeking Into Pandora’s Box?
  38. The Next Big Thing for Doctors
  39. The Cost of Care
  40. EHR Mythology 101
  41. Building a Better Mousetrap
  42. Interview: Highmark introduces private label ADAM iphone app
  43. THCB Is Brought to You By:
  44. Front-Line Managers are Key to Wellness Program Participation
  45. Consumers to Pay More Under Reform
  46. THCB Recommends …
  47. Hyperventilating about the Harvard/Health Affairs Malpractice Study
  48. THCB Is Brought to You By:
  49. Primary Care is Not a Panacea: It Takes a Team
  50. Health 2.0–The Fall Conference is going to be great!
  51. THCB Corporate sponsors include
  52. What Good are Health Insurers?
  53. The History and Future of Medical Technology
  54. What’s wrong with this picture?
  55. Webinar–Intro to Governance from Nat’l eHealth Collaborative
  56. Not all Ratings Are Equal: Part II
  57. Front-Line Managers are Key to Wellness Program Participation
  58. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
  59. The Red, White and Blue Buttons
  60. And The Best Job In Academic Medicine Goes To…
  61. Healthcare unwired: nearly half of US consumers are willing to pay
  62. OIG: Imaging pre-authorization may be handled by hospital for referring docs and patients
  63. Computer Error or Patient-Centered Care?
  64. Do Patients Want to Punish?
  65. The trifecta: Reform idiocy, Hospital CEOs and the Obesity Problem
  66. HIT Trends Summary for August 2010
  67. Health 2.0 Europe: Physicians and Online Communities
  68. Health 2.0 Europe: Pew Internet Project Demonstration
  69. Health 2.0 Europe: Deep Dive by Pfizer
  70. Health 2.0 Europe: Keynote Address by Pieter Vos and Jolyn van Vuuren
  71. Health 2.0 Europe: Seach and Content
  72. Independent Advisors Prove Independent
  73. Beyond Meaningful Use: Three Five-Year Trends in the Uses of Patient Health Data and Clinical IT
  74. Remembering the Tonsillectomy Riots
  75. Health 2.0 Europe: Day One
  76. Getting Social
  77. Dipping Into the Waters of Mobile Health
  78. Dipping Into the Waters of Mobile Health

August 2010

  1. W(h)ither Insurers?
  2. Fun in San Diego next week: mHealth & Healthcamp
  3. The Accidental Socialists
  4. Running Behind
  5. Medicaid EHR Incentives – A Learning Experience
  6. A Meaningful Use and Standards Rule FAQ Part II
  7. Health 2.0 Europe: Etienne Caniard
  8. Health Reform Without Apologies
  9. Health 2.0 Europe: Keynote by Morten Petersen
  10. The New Frontier of Medicine?
  11. “If There’s a Doctor on Board, Please Ring Your Call Button”
  12. To Med Students Considering Primary Care
  13. Health 2.0 Europe Conference Videos
  14. Op-Ed: The Government EHR
  15. It’s My Life, It’s Now or Never
  16. Trust Me I’m a Doctor vs. Physician Quality Report Cards
  17. Three Wishes
  18. Announcement: eHealth Initiative Posts New Positions Experienced Applicants Encouraged to Apply
  19. Don Casey, CEO, West Wireless Health Institute on the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge
  20. If Reform Fails
  21. Job Post: THCB Editorial
  22. How to save $40 billion in health care costs
  23. Aneesh Chopra talking Health IT and innovation, SF 12 noon today
  24. One Day in the Life of a Meaningful User
  25. The Other Medicare Report
  26. RWJF’s Stephen Downs on a New Model for the Foundation – and the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge
  27. Diversinet: a backbone for unplatforms?
  28. Privacy and Security of Patient Records: The Lesson of the Weakest Link
  29. Can Health 2.0 Fix Clinical Trials?
  30. Ingenix buys Axolotl (with minor Update)
  31. The Federal Reserve Wants to Rebuild Main Street
  32. That’s Dr. Geek Squad to you
  33. Interview with Mary Hiller, MedExpert International
  34. Atul Gawande and the Art of Medical Writing
  35. Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Really Make a Difference If the Public Doesn’t Want It?
  36. Imperfect Timing, Interesting Findings
  37. No One Is Perfect, Not Even Computers
  38. Difficulties With Diagnosis
  39. THCB Is Brought to You By:
  40. THCB Corporate sponsors include
  41. Health 2.0 Northwest Chapter Kicks-off with a Big Bang
  42. THCB Corporate Sponsors Include:
  43. Massachusetts Update
  44. A Bizarre Report
  45. Why a Patient 2.0 Panel at the Health 2.0 DC conference?
  46. Why I Don’t Accept E-mail From Patients
  47. The Circle of Trust
  48. Waving goodbye to Wave
  49. EMRs, Checklists and Meeting Atul
  50. MinuteClinic’s hour may be at hand
  51. Should We Fear Genetic Testing?
  52. HIT Trends Summary for July 2010
  53. Job Post: THCB Editorial
  54. Interview with Geoff Hyatt, VP Business Development for Alere
  55. Public Is More Savvy than Harris Polltakers
  56. Adam Bosworth on the Keas Challenge and the 3 things still missing in Health 2.0
  57. “I Like (Political) Science and I Want to Help People”
  58. Docs and Insurers Posture on Report Cards, But Is Silence the Real Goal?
  59. The New Rules for Insurance Appeals Under PPACA
  60. Interview with Trisha Torrey
  61. The Yellow Stickie Ain’t Dead Yet
  62. In the Public Interest
  63. Health 2.0 Washington DC Conference: Interview with Gilles Frydman
  64. Facepalming Our Way into the Future
  65. Florida 2010: Practice Fusion Demonstration
  66. Interview with Aneesh Chopra

July 2010

  1. Closing remarks from Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
  2. Technology Showcase: Health 2.0 Tools for Consumers
  3. Not All Ratings Are Equal
  4. Health 2.0 Washington DC Conference: interview with Gilles Frydman
  5. Closing remarks from Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
  6. Use Emotion to Drive Adoption—Not Rejection—of Health IT
  7. Interview with Patrick Soon-Shiong
  8. The Reform Dartboard: Predicting Healthcare Costs
  9. Reactor Panel: Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
  10. Interview with Esther Dyson
  11. Not So Meaningful EHR Certification
  12. Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing — The Need for Early Filtering of Genetic Information
  13. Government as an Engine for Innovation
  14. THCB Corporate Sponsors Include:
  15. Can CMS Be a Venture Capitalist?
  16. Can Health 2.0 Improve EHR Adoption?
  17. THCB Corporate Sponsors Include:
  18. Interview with Jon White
  19. THCB Corporate Sponsors Include:
  20. THCB Corporate sponsors include
  21. Introduction to Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
  22. How About “Meaningful Exchange”?
  23. The Insurer’s Dilemma
  24. The Original Individual Mandate, Circa 1792
  25. Health 2.0’s Role in a World of “Data Liberacion”
  26. What if All Americans Had at Least Catastrophic Health Care Coverage?
  27. Interview with Josh Sommer
  28. Beating up on ONC, mostly unjustified
  29. My Side
  30. Knee Trauma, again
  31. Microsoft talks health plans
  32. Technology Showcase: Data Drives Decisions
  33. Interview with David Hale
  34. WEGOHealth provides solution for that Ning premium charge
  35. Guidelines for the Perplexed
  36. Failure
  37. Sermo: The latest from Dan Palestrant
  38. Interview with Farzad Mosashari
  39. Beacon Communities: Webinar with EVERYTHING You Ever Wanted to Know!
  40. Checking in with BenefitFocus
  41. Kenneth Buetow and caBIG
  42. Open access scheduling at the doctor’s office
  43. A Reply to the Cato Institute
  44. So I’m on TV, unfortunately in piece of crappy reporting
  45. How to Ration Health Care
  46. Fantastic job: HHS ONC subject matter expert on consumer e-health
  47. Christmas in July: Meaningful Use as a Gift for the Consumer
  48. My EMR Reality
  49. Keas Opens API for Health 2.0 Developer Challenge!
  50. Patrick Soon-Shiong – Role in a World of “Data Liberacion”
  51. Big Day in HIT
  52. New and Improved Meaningful Use
  53. Josh Sommer – A Patient Looking for a World of “Data Liberacion”
  54. Interview: Blumenthal talks meaningful use
  55. Meaningful use, and cats & dogs
  56. What Could Don Do?
  57. Jamie Heywood Challenges Health 2.0
  58. Op Ed: Dr. No to Run CMS
  59. Wellcare, yes there’s more even without(?) Regi
  60. PPACA: The Individual Mandate
  61. KP Innovation Workshop
  62. Aneesh Chopra Gives Keynote Address
  63. ONC announces HITECH amendments to HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules
  64. Maybe Being Wrong is Better and More Human than Being Right
  65. Why Obama Made the Right Call on Berwick
  66. The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge–It’s On!
  67. Durenberger: Health Insurance Chickens Come Home to Roost
  68. Esther Dyson – “Health, Not Healthcare!”
  69. In a Surprise Move, Administration Appoints Berwick to Head CMS
  70. Leapfrogging CPOE
  71. Navigating Cancer
  72. Todd Park on Health 2.0’s Role in a World of Data Liberation
  73. Marooned in the Horse Latitudes
  74. HIT Trends Summary for June 2010
  75. Healthcare.gov, and health care at OSCON
  76. Bizarre PR pitch of the year so far
  77. How Would Modern Medicine have Helped our Early Patriots?
  78. Do-It-Yourself Health Care
  79. A Permanent “Doc-Fix” Remains Elusive
  80. The Not For-Profit / For-Profit Divide
  81. Consenting Technologies
  82. THCB Corporate sponsors include
  83. Op Ed: Make It Simple, Please!

June 2010

  1. Dr. Berwick’s Last Stand?
  2. The Top 10 Generics
  3. Heavy Words
  4. Contradictions in Massachusetts
  5. What’s New With McKesson HS
  6. If HIT Plan A Doesn’t Work, What’s Plan B?
  7. Are Doctors Really Boycotting Medicare?
  8. A Tale of Two Diseases: Repairing Comparative Effectiveness Research
  9. Why England is out of the World Cup
  10. RFID Tags for Nurses. Then Everybody?
  11. Do Physicians Have a Right to Privacy?
  12. The Promise of Medicine
  13. Radio Stardom and the World Cup
  14. Private Equity in Health Care
  15. The Dartmouth Team Responds (Again)
  16. Deobfuscating HITECH
  17. Commentology: Times Reporters Respond
  18. Click4Care Talks Tools
  19. Deobfuscating HITECH
  20. A NY Times guest (inadvertently) spanks its professionals
  21. Op-Ed: Health Care For Profit
  22. Nope. Won’t Happen.
  23. AMA and Congress: Playing “Chicken” Again
  24. Doing Their Homework: Times Reporters Respond in Dartmouth Atlas Spat
  25. Final EHR Certification Rule Announced By ONC
  26. AskDrRob (ADR): LOL, EHR, Oprah
  27. Alere interviewed at AHIP
  28. Job Post: THCB Editorial
  29. The Primary Care Workforce: Help is on the Way
  30. Patient Communities… at Walgreens?
  31. Care, Primarily
  32. Healthcare Reform, Payment Models & Acquisitions
  33. Op-Ed: Defending Regi
  34. Monsters Inside of Me
  35. Learn from Your Competitors’ Mistakes
  36. What exactly is Healthymagination?
  37. EMR Ratings: How Relevant Is CCHIT Certification In the HITECH Era?
  38. Diabetes Mine Design Challenge winners
  39. WIHI On Imaging Practices
  40. Health 2.0 DC Exhibit Hall Companies and Descriptions!
  41. AHRQ’s Outstanding Achievement in Healthcare Research Award
  42. How Can We Encourage Medical Students to Choose Primary Care?
  43. Plug Into Meaningful Use, Don’t Try to Build It
  44. Pitfalls of PPACA – Accountable Care Organizations
  45. Social media interlude
  46. Commentology: A mother’s plea for help
  47. Who Wants to Give Money to Their Toughest Competitor?
  48. American Well world domination plan on course
  49. Health 2.0 Came to Washington—And Now it Needs to Stay
  50. Health 2.0 DC: Passion and Execution at Scale
  51. Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication, July 18-23, 2010
  52. The Axis of Evil
  53. Allscripts buys Eclipsys: Does it make sense?
  54. CORRECTION, APOLOGY & CLARIFICATION about “You Want To Have It Both Ways”
  55. Three ways to set payment rates
  56. The Online Future of Patient Communication
  57. PITFALLS OF PPACA #3 – Insurance Exchange Issues
  58. Would I Quit?
  59. Apples to Grapefruits
  60. Jamie Heywood and Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
  61. Dartmouth Analysis Again In the Cross Hairs
  62. EHR Usability
  63. What Most Patients Don’t Know About the Residents Who Care For Them
  64. The NY Times, dogs, sores & Dartmouth critics
  65. When a Fire Breaks Out In the Operating Room
  66. A Salute to the VA on Memorial Day—Part 1
  67. From Twitter to Megaphones: Nine Lessons Learned about Crisis Communication
  68. Announcing the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge
  69. Show Me the Data
  70. Health 2.0 Webinar with David Hale, Ted Eytan, Regina Holliday, Marco Smit
  71. Patrick Soon-Shiong – Role in a World of “Data Liberacion”
  72. Pitfalls of PPACA – The Grandfathering Problem
  73. Innovation: Curious Word
  74. Tomorrow’s Webcast–The CHDI Forum
  75. The Evidentiary Basis for a Clinically Meaningful Benefit
  76. Why do the uninsured want to stay uninsured? They won’t say
  77. Chaim Indig, Phreesia, on how to spend $16m

May 2010

  1. The Times Hits the Right Notes on Hospitalists
  2. Yahoo: The sleeping giant awakes?
  3. Google Irrelevant? Say It Ain’t So.
  4. Regina Holiday, here today & on the Health 2.0 Show Tuesday
  5. The Pitfalls of PPACA #1 – The Medical Loss Ratio Rule
  6. Support for Berwick to Head Medicare Grows
  7. Something Wizard This Way Comes
  8. New AHRQ-Funded Report Provides Snapshot of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Vendor Usability Processes and Practices
  9. One Big Little Change
  10. We’re getting so excited (and Todd Park always is)…about DC
  11. Shining a Light on Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research
  12. 10 Rules for Good Medicine
  13. An Open Letter to Senator Scott Brown
  14. In Defense of Paul Levy
  15. Is HITECH Working? #7: Where’s Plan B? Congress and ONC need to address major flaws in HITECH
  16. Alexandra Drane, fabulous, poacher, with PODCAST
  17. Commentology: Is This the Future of Insurance Negotiations?
  18. Introducing San Francisco Health Innovation Week
  19. ReachMD: 2.0 Tools and Healthcare
  20. Hospital Bills, Insurers and Pricing
  21. It Slices, It Dices, It Fleeces
  22. National Healthcare Insurance Isn’t Enough: Six Crucial Steps To Improve Healthcare
  23. Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference – DC, June 7th!
  24. Dislodging the anchor
  25. How to Build a Culture of Innovation From the Inside Out
  26. Are New Yorkers Sicker Than Patients in Atlanta–or Are They Just More Likely To Be Diagnosed?
  27. Symantec tiptoes into health care
  28. Design for America–I declare the winner
  29. DrChrono shows their iPad chops
  30. Y’all Come Back Now, Ya Hear?
  31. COMMENTOLOGY: Only Two of Millions Who Need Health care
  32. Will the NFIB please go away…..
  33. Is Your Organization Too Flat?
  34. Americans and Their Medical Machines
  35. Reflections from “Health 2.0 in the Doctor’s Office”
  36. Nancy Turett on Health Engagement
  37. Are older patients ready for the personal healthcare revolution?
  38. Truly CA
  39. A Health Affairs collection
  40. Badness in Baltimore: Can Peer Review Catch Rogue Doctors?
  41. Worth It
  42. If I Were as Sexy as Atul Gawande
  43. Statistics – Using the Truth to Mislead
  44. Half full. Half empty.
  45. The Practical Consumer vs. The Illogical Deb Peel
  46. When Medicare “Cuts” are Medicare “Savings”
  47. A 21st Century Health Care Roadmap: The Path from Peril to Progress
  48. Is HITECH Working? #6: HITECH and Health Reform Objectives are Synergistic
  49. Even with Incentives, Docs May Forgo EHR Adoption
  50. A Painful Story
  51. Why You Ought To Be On Twitter
  52. Gimme My Damn Data!
  53. Myths & Facts About Health Care Reform, Part 4
  54. NHIN Direct: Getting to the Health Internet, Finally!
  55. DC area–Games for Health, Gov 2.0 & Health 2.0 Conferences soon!
  56. The Makings of A Great Outcome
  57. The Changing Face of Health Care: How Business Analytics Can Improve Performance & Drive Efficiencies
  58. Health 2.0 Webinar with ONC
  59. Making Sense of the NHIN
  60. Making Sense of the NHIN
  61. Myths and Facts About Health Reform Part III
  62. What’s Behind Today’s Primary Care Crisis? You Don’t Know the Half of It
  63. Fake Facebook Profiles and Other Portents of the End of Times
  64. Why We Need Private Primary Care Doctors

April 2010

  1. THCB CEO denies improper relationships, payoffs
  2. To Know and Be Known
  3. ProPublica’s Pulitzer piss-take
  4. Does Market Power Help Patients?
  5. The New Joint Commission
  6. Lisa Girion is a hero
  7. Reg strikes back! Apparently Wellcare were a bunch of crooks after all. Maybe
  8. Doing it on the radio? Yes we can!
  9. Healthline on a roll: new funding, Yahoo! deal
  10. Dear Mr. President
  11. The Governor’s Healthcare IT Conference
  12. Challenges in EMR Adoption by Doctors Offices
  13. Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software
  14. Well, point-less?
  15. (More) Madness in Massachusetts
  16. Nurseanomics
  17. We’re No. 37? Or Maybe Not …
  18. Medicare To Cover Preventative Care
  19. Reputation versus quality: U.S. News Hospital Ranking
  20. Another physician tool: mPay Gateway interview
  21. Catching up with Anvita Health
  22. Health 2.0 in the Doctor’s Office
  23. Myths and Facts About Health Reform Part II
  24. A Microsoft EMR: It’s Not Just a Matter of When, It’s a Matter of Who
  25. Engage with Grace on Decisions Day
  26. Health 2.0 Europe – Opening Presentation Available!
  27. Important: Input on consumer ‘Meaningful Use’ requested and required, Apr 20
  28. VAT On the Horizon
  29. Survey on PHRs: Interesting Data, Wrong Emphasis
  30. Get Privacy Right, So We Can Move On Already
  31. Meaningful Use in the Real World — Is the Additional Administrative Burden Worth the Bonus for Small Practices?
  32. APSO needs to replace SOAP in EMRs
  33. A song for (Health 2.0) Europe
  34. The Laboratory of Democracy
  35. Health 2.0 Europe Opening Video
  36. EHR Etiquette
  37. The iPad in Healthcare: A Game Changer?
  38. Watch Insurance Premiums Soar
  39. The Power of Negotiated Prices
  40. Are The Attorneys General’s Constitutional Claims Bogus?
  41. It’s Easier to Beat Up the Insurers
  42. Health 2.0 Europe, a fabulous end to Day 1
  43. Myths and Facts About Health Reform
  44. Health 2.0 Europe today; take a deep breath
  45. Should We Let The Death Issue Die?
  46. Are We Adequately Securing Personal Health Information?
  47. Health 2.0 Europe–My Take
  48. Fabulous HWR at HealthBlawg
  49. Paris in the Springtime
  50. Don Berwick: An Activist Takes the Reins at CMS
  51. Human
  52. Getting Over The New Normal
  53. THCB relaunch to change focus to renewable energy, fly fishing, sailing

March 2010

  1. Reform: Round 2
  2. Really Managing Care and Costs
  3. Who Is Don Berwick (and Why Is He Following Me?)
  4. Are The Attorneys General’s Constitutional Claims Bogus?
  5. THCB Comments back online
  6. Commentology: Dear Mr. Angry
  7. THCB status update
  8. Health 2.0 Webinar on EMRs, meaningful use & clinical groupware
  9. Interview with Alex Savic, CEO of Alensa Next Widgets
  10. Physicians–grumpy and getting grumpier
  11. Healthcare’s Privacy Problem (Hint: It’s Not What You Think It Is )
  12. The Numbers Tell The Story
  13. Op-Ed: After Reform
  14. Health Reform: A Class Act
  15. Database of Bad Doctors Blocks Public From Seeing Names
  16. A Tribute to Austin Ross
  17. What you don’t know about the Netherlands is your loss!
  18. Is it Unconstitutional to Mandate Health Insurance?
  19. Apple Targets Healthcare Enterprise
  20. It’s history
  21. Innovation: Fresh Thinking for the Ideas Economy
  22. Health 2.0 in Hungary? Yes, We Can!
  23. The Reinvention of Social Progress
  24. What’s Next With Health Care (And Why This Process Was Madness)
  25. Rearranging Chairs
  26. The big question for what’s next
  27. “I Am Not Bound To Win. But I Am Bound To Be True.”
  28. Healthcare 2015
  29. The Tale of the Fancy Sea Creatures and the Pipes
  30. The Vote is 6pm EST
  31. A Culture of Fear and Intimidation: Reforming Medical Education
  32. Could It Be That the System (Gasp) Works?
  33. Vote Yes
  34. Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat?
  35. Do the Wrong Thing
  36. The Paradox of Technology in Healthcare
  37. Dear Mr President, Medicare Stinks
  38. The Top Ten Immediate Benefits Americans Will Receive When Health Care Reform Passes
  39. Price Controls Do Not Work
  40. George Clooney Was Onto Something
  41. Andy Wiesenthal, Kaiser Permanente
  42. In ONC I Trust …
  43. Jonathan Bush, quickly
  44. WebMD–Nan Forte explains Health Exchange
  45. A Web 2.0 Interview with Miguel Cabrer, CEO of Medting
  46. Microsoft at HIMSS
  47. Unstable Public Opinion
  48. Job Post: THCB Editorial
  49. The Surprise
  50. Aneesh Chopra on txting in Haiti
  51. Crowd Sourcing Comes Through Again
  52. It’s Not About Meaningful Use …
  53. Program Director Healthcare IT
  54. MedApps on TV
  55. Epocrates–reference present and EMR future
  56. Verb-alizing
  57. RememberItNow! and Prezi
  58. Glen Tullman, Allscripts
  59. Innovation, Not Legislation: Venture Capital is the Path to Improving Patient Safety and Reducing Waste and Error in the U.S. Healthcare System
  60. Stressed Out System
  61. A Shout-out to our sponsors
  62. Hospital Quality Group Obscures Hospital Quality Reports, Journalists Charge
  63. What Happens Next in MA?
  64. Policy for Equal Access Care: You Make It Possible
  65. Community Wars? WebMD launches Health Exchange
  66. The 2010 DiabetesMine Challenge
  67. Octopus and other Fishes
  68. Health 2.0 Europe–Webinar on Wednesday
  69. Why Rush Vendor Certification of EHR Technologies?
  70. Last Helicopter Out of Saigon!
  71. Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients
  72. Waiting for Dr. Godot
  73. The Oxymoron Columnist
  74. Why cameras shouldn’t be let into bars
  75. Bush & Palestrant–Live from HIMSS
  76. HIMSS impressions
  77. Dispatch from HIMSS
  78. Antitrust Warfare
  79. The Enthusiasm Gap
  80. Some Thoughts On the Word “Filibuster”
  81. Glen Tullman, Allscripts
  82. Confused, Conflicted, Clueless and Cranky
  83. After the Failure of Reform
  84. Health Care Reform: A Better Idea
  85. Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Health Care Debate
  86. Pioneer Speaks about MA Health Reform
  87. A little HIMSS housekeeping

February 2010

  1. h20 paris
  2. 23 skiddoo
  3. It’s Up To Us …
  4. The White House Healthcare Summit – Democrats 0 Republicans 0
  5. Pay (Only) for Health Care that Works
  6. Not exactly what athenahealth was looking for
  7. Paris, Here We Come Are
  8. The Messy Business of Transparency
  9. More of the Same, Only More Expensive
  10. The President’s Health Care Plan
  11. A Backhanded Way to Make Policy
  12. The President’s Proposal
  13. A 2.0 Interview with Berci Mesko, regional ambassador to Hungary for Health 2.0 Europe
  14. From Pain to Poverty
  15. Health 2.0: Beneath the Hype, There’s Cause for Real Hope
  16. Is Geography Your Health Destiny?
  17. Bentley & Stanton: Two UK docs talk about Health 2.0
  18. HIMSS Parties, and a little more
  19. The Look
  20. CCD Standard Gaining Traction, CCR Fading
  21. Chilmark Needs to Chill Out on CCR/CCD Findings
  22. Health on the Net Foundation goes Web 2.0
  23. Healthcare: Right or Responsibility?
  24. Wellpoint: just incompetent?
  25. McAllen, TX As Outlier? Why Not Houston?
  26. Why the iPad Matters (For Healthcare)
  27. No Country For Young Nurses
  28. Should the Feds Certify EHR Usability?
  29. The Reagan-Era Health Reform That Scares Both Parties
  30. The Gentleman From Indiana
  31. A Look Inside: The Massachusetts Health Reform Law
  32. PatientsLikeMe buys ReliefInSite
  33. How Maryland “Broke the Curve”: A Solution For Massachusetts?
  34. We Need a Doctor In the House — And the Senate
  35. Who does PhRMA need next? Robin Strongin thinks she knows
  36. Interview: Todd Park
  37. A new campaign against childhood obesity
  38. Acquisitions Creating White Hot Market for Healthcare IT
  39. Wellpoint and Their “39%” Rate Increase
  40. Hands on social media workshop in Berkeley
  41. Rating or Narrating, that is the question.
  42. EHR & The Art, Science and Business of Medicine
  43. Apparently the public perceives a problem
  44. Massachusetts’ Problem and Maryland’s Solution
  45. President Obama on Bipartisanship
  46. Why Is the Boston Globe Picking On Charlie Baker Again?
  47. Tough day for Wellpoint
  48. DNADirect bought by Medco: Consumer genomic counselling goes mainstream?
  49. Gawande’s “Checklist Manifesto”
  50. EHR Redux
  51. How to Get Enough Votes in the Senate
  52. Government to Account For More Than Half of Healthcare Spending
  53. Why Calculators Are the Future of Healthcare
  54. Wellpoint’s wasted opportunity
  55. The Point of Health 2.0. Yes There is One
  56. Plan B
  57. Autism and the MMR: Finally a Retraction
  58. American Healthcare: Caught in a Bad Romance
  59. The Health Assurance – Disease Insurance Plan
  60. Coming Short with Thinking
  61. Todd Park speaks: Free the data!
  62. Simple Steps to Meaningful Health Reform
  63. 10 Insights on the iPad
  64. Collecting Patient Info in Haiti Using the iPhone
  65. Medical Experts Say Haitians Will Need Health Care Help for Years to Come
  66. Job Post: THCB Editorial
  67. Check Lists and Decision Trees versus Spontaneity and Imagination
  68. THCB TV
  69. An Unhealthy Debate Around Wellness
  70. Uwe and Heritage agree: we need a tax-funded universal pool

January 2010

  1. Regional Variation Revisited: Price Differences Not A Significant Factor
  2. Cost, Choice, and Value
  3. The Cost of Fear
  4. The Info-Button Standard: Bringing Meaningful Use to the Patient
  5. Panicky People Make Bad Decisions : Salvaging Health Reform after Scott Brown
  6. The Health 2.0 Show, January 2010
  7. Aneesh Chopra, talks Health 2.0
  8. After Reform
  9. Martha’s Mistakes
  10. Report: The Past and Future of Health 2.0
  11. The Boston Massacre
  12. House of Straw or House of Bricks?
  13. The Silver Lining
  14. Obama & Company
  15. A vote for single payer, austerity-style
  16. Thinking the unthinkable–no Health Care bill?
  17. Wanted: Surgeons, nurses, and other medical personnel to help in Haiti
  18. The Dog’s OAuth
  19. Why America Needs a Patient-in-Chief
  20. Why health insurance reform really matters
  21. Update: Surgeons, nurses, and other medical personnel needed to help in Haiti
  22. “FDA More Pro Industry Than Any Time in 35 Years”
  23. The Union “Cadillac” Tax Sweetheart Deal
  24. Is it 2013 (or 2014) Yet?
  25. PharmaSecure using SMS to detect counterfeit drugs
  26. MS-HUG Awards; let’s see you, Health 2.0 gang!
  27. Nurse Practitioners – Doctors?
  28. The Cost of Mammography Screening for Women Under 50
  29. State vs. National Exchanges – Why it Matters
  30. “Comparative Effectiveness Research” and Kindred Delusions
  31. Urgently Needed: Useful Meaning of Meaningful Use
  32. Nancy Turett, Edelman: “Health is the new Green”
  33. And in breaking news…
  34. An Open Letter to Speaker Pelosi from C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb
  35. EHRs for a Small Planet
  36. Health Care Reform and the Art of Partisan Politics
  37. A Special Edition of Health Wonk Review
  38. Health 2.0 a-Go-Go: A Revolution By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet
  39. The Deer Hunter and healthcare reform
  40. My personal start of year letter…
  41. The five things to pay attention to in 2010
  42. The State of the Union – And the Economy: Why We Need Health Care Reform Now
  43. THCB Media Packet
  44. THCB Media Guide
  45. Plan B, Mr. President?
  46. The Filibuster, Supermajority and the Constitution
  47. ACOR, Health 2.0 in the US & Europe: Gilles Frydman tells all

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