2011

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December 2011

1. 31 DecA Look Back at 2011
2. 31 DecAcne Cured by Self-Experimentation
3. 30 Dec2011’s Last Viral Lie About Health Reform
4. 30 DecFAA’s Pilot Fatigue Prevention Rule Could Translate to Other Occupations
5. 30 DecPhysicians Venture out of Practice, Seeking Capital
6. 29 DecWhat Is Sustainable Health Spending?
7. 29 DecWhat the Healthcare Industry Can Learn From Technology Start-Ups
8. 29 DecThe Boy Who Lived
9. 28 DecSan Francisco’s Universal Health Plan Reaches Tens of Thousands, but Rests on Unstable Funding
10. 27 DecNew Models for Market Access
11. 26 DecDigitizing Human Beings
12. 26 DecThere Is an Incubator Bubble. And It Will Pop.
13. 24 DecUwe on premium support and vouchers
14. 23 DecMind the Gap
15. 23 DecHealth 2.0 News
16. 22 DecWe Have Cancer
17. 21 DecIs Nanotechnology the New GMO?
18. 21 DecObesity Means Lower Pay
19. 21 DecStartup Incubator Healthbox Announces Its First Class
20. 20 DecTwenty-First Century Personalization of Health Care
21. 20 DecHealth 2.0 News
22. 20 DecScenario Planning in a Post-ACO and Post-ACA World
23. 20 DecThe Defining Issue: Not Government’s Size, but Who It’s For
24. 20 DecWhen the End of Life Is Not.
25. 20 DecLegislative Pressures
26. 19 DecThe States: Friends With (Essential) Benefits
27. 19 Dec12 Common Medicare Scams
28. 19 DecmHealth: Seemingly Stuck in Neutral
29. 16 DecAetna’s latest Health 2.0 purchase
30. 15 DecThe Wyden-Ryan Plan
31. 15 DecFlorida’s Problem: Cutting Medicaid May Cost More
32. 15 DecHobson’s Choice
33. 14 DecCan Hospitals Exist Without Doctors?
34. 14 DecThree big winners of the “Ensuring Safe Transitions” Challenge
35. 14 DecObama-cares (if you’re under 26)
36. 13 DecObituary: RIP to the EHR
37. 13 DecMedicare Advantage Quality, Savings, Access and Satisfaction: Can We Have It All?
38. 13 DecWhat Really Needs to be Done About the Critical Shortage of Cancer Drugs
39. 12 DecSeven Reasons to be Thankful for Health Reform this Holiday Season
40. 10 DecKaren Ignagni tells (some of) the truth
41. 10 DecCongress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance – In 1798
42. 10 DecShopping for Health Coverage Versus Shopping for Health Care
43. 9 DecMicrosoft Bows Out of the Clinical Market
44. 9 DecMicrosoft GE Healthcare Joint Venture – A Sign of Weakness or Strength?
45. 9 DecCan We Design a Heart Healthy Home?
46. 8 DecObamacare to the Rescue
47. 8 DecFree the Vets
48. 8 DecThe Rebirth of Social Darwinism
49. 7 DecCameron’s Law
50. 7 DecA Litmus Test For Elected Officials
51. 7 DecLeavitt ACO Report: Overstating or Understating Accountable Care Activity?
52. 6 DecJustice Kagan Should Recuse Herself from Obamacare Case
53. 6 DecWhy Three Hospitals Didn’t Hurt My Wife
54. 6 DecThe Promise of Electronic Healthcare Records
55. 6 DecBespoke Limbs and Real Mass Customization
56. 5 DecFarm Bill Needs a Major Overhaul
57. 5 DecMedical Injustice – Contracts That Suppress Patient Comments About Their Doctors or Dentists
58. 5 DecEnd of life “care” redux
59. 4 DecShould Doctors Make House Calls?
60. 4 DecThe Last Six Months of Life
61. 3 Dec2011 EHR Adoption Rates
62. 2 DecEMR’s hockey stick up!
63. 1 DecDo We Really Spend More and Get Less?
64. 1 DecWill Health Insurance Reform Reach Those Who Really Need It?
65. 1 DecHey East Coast Entrepreneurs: We Fail Better.

November 2011

1. 29 NovThe Politics of Prevention
2. 29 NovThe British Primary Care System and Its Lessons for America
3. 28 NovJoint Commission Says Texting Orders Is a No-No, but Maybe Docs Are on to Something
4. 28 NovThe Doc Fix
5. 27 NovThe Constitution Is Not a Turkey
6. 26 NovDrawing a Hard Line on Resident Work Hours
7. 26 NovAre Doctors Becoming Obsolete?
8. 26 NovStarting Solids: An Exciting Reason to Be Thankful
9. 25 NovMore BYOD Worries
10. 23 NovOccupy with Grace
11. 23 NovMassachusetts and Hawaii Offer the Most Cost-Effective Health Insurance Coverage
12. 23 NovFTC Commissioner: Accountable Care Organizations Will Likely Lead to ‘Higher Costs and Lower Quality Health Care’
13. 22 NovMy Minute with Andy Rooney
14. 22 NovThe Super Committee Failure—What’s Next?
15. 21 NovA Few More Minutes with Andy Rooney
16. 21 NovFrom Blackberry to iPhone
17. 19 NovFlorida Sanctions Top Medicaid Prescribers, After a Shove
18. 18 NovMr. Bush Goes to Washington
19. 18 NovMedPAC’s SGR Solution: Bad Medicine For A Chronic Problem
20. 18 NovDo Something Cool
21. 18 NovAmericans Must Stop Overusing Antibiotics
22. 17 NovAnother data breach. So what?
23. 16 NovBut There Are No Pit Crews
24. 16 NovEnd Gaming the Supreme Court’s ACA Review
25. 16 NovDenmark’s Fat Tax
26. 15 NovYou are Solving the Wrong Problem
27. 15 NovTHCB Live
28. 15 NovWal-Mart Care
29. 14 NovUnderstanding the Supreme Court’s Health Law Review
30. 14 NovSCOTUS: Big News Is the Medicaid Grant
31. 11 NovRethinking Medical Education
32. 11 NovAmerica Needs Different Doctors. Not More Doctors.
33. 10 NovThe Doctor Is In (And Extremely Annoyed)
34. 10 NovAppellate Court Upholds ACA In Opinion By Prominent Conservative Judge
35. 9 NovWalmart Wants To Be Nation’s Biggest Primary Care Provider
36. 9 NovThe Growing Malware Problem
37. 9 NovMitt Romney Treads Carefully
38. 8 NovSiemens Jumps into HIE Waters
39. 8 NovLooking for Interoperability in All the Wrong Places
40. 8 NovThe Michael Jackson Verdict
41. 7 NovWhat Difference Does Health Insurance Make?
42. 7 NovThe Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions
43. 7 NovThe Digital Age and the Doctor/Patient Relationship
44. 7 NovE-mail from TEDMED
45. 5 NovCrowd-sourcing Medical Bills
46. 5 NovCould a Pharmacy Monopoly Affect Your Healthcare?
47. 4 NovWhat if the Supreme Court Strikes Down the Individual Mandate?
48. 4 NovGetting the Patient’s POV
49. 4 NovAnother Unpleasant Surprise from Obamacare
50. 3 NovChristie on Obama’s “Government Takeover”
51. 3 NovOff-label Drug Promotion and the First Amendment
52. 3 NovHerman Cain’s (Mostly) Conventional Plan for Health Care Reform
53. 2 NovIs Incentive-Driven Healthcare the Holy Grail of Engagement?
54. 2 NovIs Fee-for-Service Really the Problem?
55. 1 NovInside the NHS Reform Fight
56. 1 NovOverestimating Consumer Demand for Health Care Technology
57. 1 NovApps Against Abuse–the Winners

October 2011

1. 31 OctIs Southern Europe’s Debt Crisis an Omen for US Health Care?
2. 31 OctFailure as a Path to Success
3. 31 OctWhat Keeps Me Up at Night
4. 29 OctRomney vs Romney
5. 28 OctHow Much Is a Life Worth?
6. 28 OctThe Massachusetts Disconnect
7. 28 OctHealth 2.0 Europe–the view from hip Berlin
8. 27 OctConstitutional Serendipity
9. 26 OctNo Better Care, Thanks to Tort Reform
10. 26 OctBetter Care in Texas Thanks to Tort Reform
11. 25 OctA Vision for Health Care: Put the States in Charge
12. 25 OctObamacare Exchange Opposite of Free Market
13. 25 OctCMS’ Opportunity: A Lawsuit Offers A Chance To Reform Physician Payment
14. 24 OctMore Explanation of the Explanation of Benefits (EOB)
15. 24 OctAre Health Apps the Cure for Anything That Ails You?
16. 24 OctFederal Debt, Student Loans and the Physician Workforce
17. 23 OctGmail offline–not as easy as using toothpaste
18. 21 OctCMS Wants Docs to Ante Up to ACO Poker Game
19. 21 OctA Doctor’s Vision for Medicare
20. 20 OctWant Better Treatment From Your Doctor? Be Likeable
21. 20 OctThe Super Committee: Bracing for More Medicare Cuts
22. 20 OctLessons from the CLASS Act
23. 18 OctThe Untimely Death of Long-Term Health Insurance
24. 18 OctDr. Watson I Presume
25. 18 OctWhy Not a Nurse?
26. 18 OctThe Big Lie
27. 18 OctJoin Us For Tomorrow’s Health 2.0 Show
28. 17 OctThe Health Care Reform Law: What’s the Big Deal?
29. 14 OctMedicare’s Wild Ride
30. 14 OctWhy Are There Disparities In Health Care? Because It’s Free
31. 13 OctThe Farmville of Health?
32. 13 OctER-nomics
33. 13 OctThe Failure of Health Care Reform: An Insider’s View
34. 13 OctWhat Doctors Think
35. 13 OctPutting the IT in Care TransITions–Webcast
36. 13 OctHealthbox: Deadline Next Week
37. 13 OctDon’t Waste My Time…
38. 13 OctThank U.S. Health Care for the Life of Steve Jobs
39. 12 OctThe Acute Model
40. 11 OctOrphan Innovations
41. 11 OctPaul Ryan Is Right (And Wrong)
42. 10 OctReforming the NPDB: An Open Letter
43. 10 OctWhy Drug Company-Doctor Interactions Are Good For Patients
44. 10 OctThe Rise of Big Data
45. 10 OctSteve Jobs, Health Care Apps & Me
46. 7 OctWhy Doctors Don’t Like Electronic Health Records
47. 6 OctHow Patients Think
48. 5 OctFDA Should Consider Cost in Some Decisions
49. 5 OctWhy Do You Care Whether I’m Insured?
50. 5 OctMore Information Makes You More Confident, If Not More Accurate
51. 5 OctLab Results For All!
52. 4 OctWho Should Pay for EHRs?
53. 4 OctShould Hospital Boards Embed Generative Thinking into Their Agenda?
54. 3 OctTesting, Testing – Do We Test Interventions Sufficiently?
55. 3 OctDecentralization and Mining Geodata: Thoughts from Health 2.0
56. 3 OctThe Ryan Health Care Proposal, Part II
57. 3 OctDon’t dump on the Brits’ Health IT program — they’re way ahead
58. 3 OctDo Hospitals Cost-Shift?
59. 3 OctThe Massachusetts Numbers
60. 2 OctTrickle Down Health

September 2011

1. 30 SepDid a Scrappy Little Startup Just Embarrass the FDA?
2. 30 SepHealth Care As Economic Engine?
3. 30 SepMy Non-Linear Work Stream
4. 29 SepThe Affordable Care Act Supreme Court Petitions: Issues And Implications
5. 29 SepMandate On Its Way To the Supreme Court?
6. 28 SepTop-Down vs. Bottom-Up
7. 28 SepThe Key to Improving Our Health? Look Beyond Health Care.
8. 27 SepSocial Media’s Evolving Role in Health Care
9. 27 SepToo Much Responsibility/Not Enough
10. 27 SepSharing Data on Social Media
11. 25 SepThe Challenge of ICD10 Adoption
12. 25 SepThe Power in What We Most Fear
13. 25 SepEducating the Health 2.0 Workforce
14. 25 SepFun with Heritage on Health Affairs blog
15. 25 SepPre-Conferences kick off Health 2.0
16. 24 SepDC to VC: Health 2.0 Companies Pitch!
17. 23 SepThe Math of E/M Coding: When Does 5=1?
18. 23 SepMaking Sense of Health Care Prices
19. 23 SepHow Obama Hits Health Providers in Deficit Plan
20. 22 SepHealth 2.0 Launch! Finalists Announced
21. 22 SepThe Super Committee—Will We Get a Deal?
22. 22 SepWhy Patient Lab Data Should Be Liberated
23. 22 SepWhy Aren’t Medical Prices Infinity?
24. 22 SepPreparing for the Exchanges
25. 21 SepHealth 2.0 Code-a-thon: Novartis invites all-comers to innovate around their API
26. 20 SepSome Myths About Social Security and Medicare
27. 20 SepHealthVault as a Platform for Research Development
28. 20 SepIs the Foreclosure Crisis Making People Sick?
29. 19 SepFrom Couch Potato to Quantified Self
30. 19 SepMinute Clinics Threaten Doctors: Who Wins?
31. 17 SepThe Safety Net Is Working
32. 16 SepTen Years Cancer-Free
33. 16 SepWhen Health Insurance is Free
34. 16 SepCLASS-Gate
35. 16 SepHealth Exchanges — A New Approach
36. 16 SepMaryland Regulators Holding Hospital Costs in Check
37. 16 SepDr Seuss channels Jack Wennberg
38. 15 Sep5 Ways You Can Avoid Being Misdiagnosed
39. 15 SepUrbanspoon Founder Gets Into Insurance
40. 14 SepThe Primary Care Revolt
41. 14 SepSay It Loud, I’m a Gimp and I’m Proud!
42. 14 SepReverse Innovation & The Cost Crisis in American Healthcare
43. 14 SepONC Invests in Innovation Challenges
44. 13 SepHave We Not Been Looking at Things We Should Have Seen?
45. 13 SepThe Anti-Injunction Act Complications
46. 12 SepThe Doctor is Social
47. 12 SepAHIP Video Series: McKesson
48. 12 SepYes, The Federal Exchanges Can Offer Premium Tax Credits
49. 11 SepWe’re From The Government. We’re Here To Help …
50. 11 SepTime to Make Joint Commission Surveys Public
51. 10 SepAnother Modest Proposal* – Paying for Physician Training
52. 9 SepHealth Plan Nutritional Facts
53. 9 SepWho will be the Salesforce.com of Healthcare IT?
54. 8 SepHow We Ration Care
55. 8 SepU.S. Hospitals Face Gloomiest Economic Outlook in 20 Years
56. 8 SepShifts in Humanitarian Aid: A Look at Post-Recession Data
57. 7 SepDecision Fatigue
58. 7 SepWill One Medical justify $40m in venture funding?
59. 7 SepData to the User!
60. 6 SepThe Cleveland Experiment
61. 6 SepNew Research Finds EHRs Improve the Quality of Diabetes Care
62. 6 SepHearts on Fire: a Tale of Two Californias
63. 5 Sep2011 Costs of Care Essay Contest
64. 2 SepWendell Potter reveals Rick Perry’s ignorance
65. 2 SepIf You Get What You Pay For, How Much Should You Spend?
66. 1 SepThe Need for a Level Playing Field for Physician Pay
67. 1 SepThe Wonks Are Wrong
68. 1 SepHealth 2.0: TweetChat and SF Agenda!

August 2011

1. 31 AugThe ‘CSI Effect’ Hits Medicine
2. 31 AugSteve Jobs: Healthcare Revolutionary?
3. 30 AugFinding A Quality Doctor
4. 30 AugLessons Learned from Steve Jobs
5. 30 AugAiming developers at the insurance market?
6. 29 AugGovernment Works (Really)
7. 29 AugGoogle – Say it Ain’t So
8. 26 AugHarnessing the Yottabytes
9. 26 AugHow to Avoid Death in the ICU
10. 26 AugThe Untold Obama Administration Success Story
11. 25 AugWork Hour Restrictions – A Painful Gift to Medicine
12. 25 AugDC to VC Start-up Showcase
13. 23 AugThe Emperor Remains Unclothed
14. 23 AugAnd What Happens if the Individual Mandate is Struck Down?
15. 23 AugPeter Pronovost is a Liar. He Must Be. Isn’t He?
16. 23 AugA Student’s Summer Reflections on Price Transparency
17. 23 AugMeaningful Use Requires Meaningless Data
18. 22 AugHealth Policy Schizophrenia
19. 22 AugDecision Fatigue. For Doctors, Too?
20. 21 AugHealth 2.0 Show on Big Data–12 noon PST Monday
21. 19 AugDave Chase, brilliant but wrong!
22. 19 AugWhy Bother With Government?
23. 19 AugLessons from the Carnage in HealthTech
24. 18 AugMedicare Musings
25. 18 AugHIT Trends Summary for July 2011
26. 18 AugWhiteGlove Health’s Growth Fueled by Technology
27. 17 Aug(Some) Illinois Hospitals Losing Tax-exempt Status
28. 17 AugIndividual Mandate: Can PPACA Survive Without It?
29. 16 AugAttacks on IPAB Gather Strength—And Waste Energy?
30. 16 AugmHealth – Potentially Valuable, But Not Ready For Primetime
31. 14 AugWhy the 11th Circuit’s Opinion on Health Care Reform Self-Destructs
32. 14 AugIn Obamacare Case, Constitution Is Victor
33. 14 AugHealthcare is Different
34. 13 AugThe July Effect
35. 13 AugThe True Measures of a “Good Doctor”
36. 11 AugLet’s Hope ACOs Aren’t Our Last, Best Chance for Delivery System Reform
37. 11 AugReduce Antibiotic Resistance: Get Your Flu Vaccine
38. 11 AugFrom EHR to HIE and Back
39. 11 AugHealthcare Spend at Historic Low
40. 11 AugRich hospital buys poor Medicaid Health plan. Hmm
41. 10 AugAHIP Video Series: Brainshark
42. 10 AugThe Fallen Souffle Economy
43. 10 AugAHIP Video Series: Portico Systems
44. 9 AugA Legal Challenge To CMS’ Reliance On The RUC
45. 9 AugThe Year of Going Paperless
46. 9 AugDropping the Price of Surgery
47. 9 AugSaaS tiptoes into the hospital
48. 8 AugThe Economic Urgency of Health Care Reform
49. 8 AugQuality Improvement Under the Microscope
50. 8 AugThe bleak state of the (health care) economy
51. 6 AugNot much fun with Pharma spend online
52. 5 AugCER Kills?
53. 5 AugLearning Hard Lessons from the RIM Story
54. 5 AugA Technology in Search of a Market
55. 4 AugUS Rumor and Hospital Report
56. 4 AugSelf-tracking gets hip: Withings & more
57. 3 AugThe Debt Ceiling and Health Care
58. 2 AugThere Will Be Blood
59. 2 AugAttila the Cardiologist
60. 2 AugRethinking The Value Of Medical Services
61. 2 AugDon’t Stop Medical Innovation
62. 1 AugOff-base Optimism
63. 1 AugChinese Research: Not Quite the Juggernaut?
64. 1 AugAs if we needed further proof…
65. 1 AugDeficit And Debt Politics: A Wake-Up Call For The Health Care Industry?

July 2011

1. 31 JulWhy IPAB Is Essential — A Timely Review
2. 31 JulWest Shell, CEO, Healthline
3. 29 JulAHIP Video Series: Healthcare Productivity Automation
4. 29 JulCan the Blind Lead the Seeing?
5. 29 JulCan Everyone Become a Billionaire?
6. 29 JulAre Patients Becoming Day Traders?
7. 28 JulMaking Doctors More Human
8. 28 JulBending the Curve with EHRs
9. 27 JulFrom Gray to Red
10. 27 JulIs FDA Getting Ready to Stifle Innovation in Diagnostic Software?
11. 27 JulEHR Tweetjam for Xerox 1pm EST Today
12. 27 JulVermont’s Bold Experiment
13. 26 JulDon’t Forget Medicaid
14. 25 JulWhy Everything We Are Doing in Health Policy May Be Completely Wrong …
15. 25 JulLetting Go Of Employer-Based Health Insurance
16. 25 JulWhy Cost Cutting Doesn’t Work – And What Will Work
17. 23 JulWhy Medicare Is the Solution — Not the Problem
18. 22 JulWhy Let IPAB Control Health Care?
19. 22 JulErrors of Omission
20. 22 JulMost Americans Don’t Yet Perceive the Benefits of EHRs
21. 22 JulWhen Will UPMC Explain the Whole Story?
22. 22 JulWhat’s the next way PBMs will make money?
23. 22 JulONC and NCI Partner to Launch Exciting New Challenge
24. 21 JulHealth Care Reform in 2 Short Sentences
25. 21 JulThe AAFP’s Bold New Valuation Initiative
26. 20 JulThe Pervasive Sins of Doctors and Others
27. 20 JulRequired Reading for Medical Students, Interns, and Residents
28. 20 JulUnintended Consequences
29. 20 JulAm I A Socialist?
30. 20 JulGoogle Health is Dead, Long Live Google+
31. 19 JulInterview with Sona Mehring, CEO, CaringBridge
32. 19 JulInterpreting the Draft Insurance Exchange Regs
33. 19 JulPersonal Liberties Versus Public Harm
34. 18 JulMy Patient Needed to Be Delivered
35. 16 JulThe Quantified Self: Making the Personal Public
36. 15 JulThe Rationale for Developing Physician-Leaders
37. 15 JulDeficit talks & phone hacking
38. 15 JulSo Many EHRs. So Expensive.
39. 14 JulInnovation and Competition
40. 14 JulIf Doctors Lead, Will Health Care Costs Follow?
41. 14 JulTrying Too Hard to Save Medicare
42. 13 JulWhy This Lawyer Won’t Sue Me
43. 13 JulThe Federal Exchange–Lost in alternate history
44. 12 JulMyths about Medical Malpractice: Part 2 Crisis or Hoax?
45. 12 JulLet’s Stop Bashing Profits and Business In Healthcare
46. 12 JulThe Social Media Doctor Is In
47. 12 JulFrances Dare, Cisco: Global Health Leaders’ Survey
48. 12 JulGoogle + Shines the Light on the Value of Data Portability
49. 11 JulCan Blogging Be Harmful to Your Career?
50. 11 JulInterview: Insurance exchanges, ACOs? ACS tells you how…
51. 11 JulWhat an exchange needs to do
52. 8 JulThe Prevention Paradox
53. 8 JulHIT Trends Summary for June 2011
54. 6 JulStepping in Where Google Health Left Off
55. 6 JulThe Awful Dichotomy Between Health Care Politics and Policy
56. 6 JulProcess Centered Medical Home
57. 5 JulMyths About Medical Malpractice
58. 5 JulIs Medicare A Good Deal?
59. 5 JulReal Reform For Medicare Advantage
60. 5 JulHidden Medication Costs
61. 4 JulBishops lack dignity
62. 3 JulThe HIT Hit: PPACA’s Health Insurance Tax
63. 2 JulNever Say Never (Events)

June 2011

1. 30 JunHealth Care Power Tools for Consumers
2. 30 JunThe Most Commonsensical And Hopeless Reform Idea Ever
3. 29 JunThe PHR School of Hard Knocks
4. 29 JunUnheard Voices in the Emergency Room
5. 29 JunWestern PA fight to the finish?
6. 28 JunInterview with Alexandra Drane: Eliza loads for bear….
7. 28 JunA Field of Dreams?
8. 28 JunAre Mystery Shoppers Such a Bad Idea for Health Care Quality Improvement?
9. 28 JunSecret Shoppers: Needing A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows
10. 28 JunAre We Ready for Global Payments?
11. 27 JunSorrell vs. IMS Health: Not a Privacy Case
12. 27 JunWhy we need an independent health data utility
13. 24 JunGoogle Health, can it be only mostly dead?
14. 24 JunWhat About Personal Responsibility?
15. 24 JunLooking at Healthcare Through Payer Lenses
16. 24 JunHacking Your Heart
17. 23 JunTwice Told Tale
18. 23 JunEssential Health Benefits: The Secretary’s Joystick
19. 22 JunA New Hope? (…But What About That Pesky Death Star?)
20. 22 JunGetting More Startups Focused on Health
21. 21 JunSetting The Record Straight On Drug Shortages
22. 21 JunSeriously, Some Consensus About Health Care
23. 20 JunLessons Learned from my Uncle’s Sacrifice
24. 20 JunDeath by Regulation
25. 20 JunFulfilling the PROMISe
26. 20 JunRads are Good For You. Take Twice as Many.
27. 20 JunHealth Data Discovery Contest at CureTogether
28. 17 JunFDA Should Add a Comparative Effectiveness Arm to Final Trials
29. 17 JunEHR Can Make the Paper Problem Worse
30. 17 JunPawlenty sounding Bush-like on health care
31. 17 JunIs TV Killing Us?
32. 16 JunAnother Legal Round – With a Major Misstep?
33. 16 JunAgreeing with Michael Cannon on Medicaid, somewhat
34. 16 JunCaregivers: The Advocate and the Adminstrator
35. 15 JunObama-ney Care
36. 15 JunFive Things EHR Vendors Should Do Right Now
37. 15 JunThe Future of American Healthcare, Ctd
38. 14 JunThere’s No Choice but Change
39. 14 JunA Look Back – 30 Years Later – At The Impact Of AIDS On Residency Training
40. 14 JunThe Stunning Shift Toward Employed Physicians
41. 14 JunGetting to the Heart of the Industry Transformation
42. 14 JunProject ECHO: A Game-Changer for Patient Care?
43. 13 JunLost in the Mckinsey mire
44. 13 JunProspecting for Gold
45. 13 JunEconomists Gone Wild
46. 10 JunAnalyzing A Crucial Battle In The Legal War Over Health Reform
47. 10 JunQuality Like Beauty Is In the Eye Of The Beholder
48. 10 Jun“But they are different.” Not!
49. 9 JunNo Magic Pill to Cure Poor Medication Adherence
50. 9 JunIt’s THCB’s Health Wonk Review
51. 9 JunHIT Trends Summary for May 2011
52. 9 JunOnline Communities & Attrition from Health Intervention Programs
53. 9 JunHealth 2.0 will be running challenges & scanning innovation for ONC
54. 8 JunThe Unbridgeable Gap between Left and Right on Health Reform
55. 8 JunDefining Quality in the Health Insurance Industry
56. 8 JunThe Doctor is In (and Using an iPad)
57. 7 JunThe Great Wellness Revolt of 2011
58. 7 JunAll the Care that Money Will Buy
59. 7 JunMaking Hard Decisions Easier
60. 7 JunInconvenient Facts (For Both Republicans and Democrats)
61. 7 JunVouchercare for Cancer
62. 7 JunCoordinating Care Coordination
63. 6 JunCalling All Health Innovators: Health Data Palooza
64. 6 JunRyan’s “vouchercare” is a false choice
65. 5 JunSome of My Best Friends are in Private Equity
66. 3 JunAn Obama-Gingrich-Ryan Ticket on Health Policy Reform
67. 3 JunWhat Dr. Oz Learned From His Cancer Scare
68. 2 JunThe Summer of Sequels
69. 2 JunCreating Value-Based Incentives For Primary Care
70. 2 JunWhy Angry Birds Gets More Play Than Health Apps
71. 2 JunHealth Data-Palooza!!!
72. 1 JunCosts are Up…Because They’re Higher Than They Were
73. 1 JunFirst Meaningful Use Dollars Are Just the Start
74. 1 JunThe Role of Conflicted Science in the Cell Phone-Cancer Link
75. 1 JunGetting Transparency Right
76. 1 JunThe NYTimes gets sensible on privacy

May 2011

1. 31 MayCoordinating Care: It’s A Moral Question, But Not A Hard One
2. 31 MayRemember: Social Media is Social
3. 28 MayHow to Lower Cancer Care’s Costs
4. 28 MayFive Things Hospitals and Health Systems Have to Get Good at Fast
5. 27 MayThe Cost Cutting EHR
6. 26 MayThe Doctor is…Overbooked
7. 26 MayPaul Ryan Still Doesn’t Get It
8. 26 MayEarth to Republicans: You Are In Big Political Trouble Over the Ryan Medicare Plan
9. 26 MayMedicare should pay less & differently
10. 26 MayStifling Primary Care: Why Does CMS Continue To Support The RUC?
11. 25 MayWe Need a Liberal Immigration Policy to Support Health Care Reform
12. 25 MayAn Alternative to Malpractice
13. 24 MayDo We Have Any Clue How to Cut the Cost of Healthcare?
14. 24 MayNumbers Instead of Letters
15. 24 MayNPfIT Blazing the Trail
16. 23 MayPatient Care in the Cloud
17. 22 MayHow to Blow the Big One: A Methodology
18. 22 MayThe Fall and Rise of Asynchronicity
19. 21 MayHealth 2.0 Pavilion @ Maker Faire Bay Area THIS WEEKEND
20. 20 MayMy Own Story of ALS
21. 20 MayHigh costs cut drug use…and not in a good way
22. 19 MayOne Clue to Why Health Care Costs are So High?
23. 19 MayMuch More Reform Needed for Medicare?
24. 19 MayThe System Firsthand
25. 19 MayIt’s All Going According to Plan
26. 19 MayTalking Uninsurance with Phil Lebherz
27. 18 MayWhen It Comes to Patient Safety, Caution Isn’t a Four-letter Word
28. 18 MayMaybe there really is mobile health after all
29. 18 MayA New Cost Control Idea – Paying For Outcomes
30. 17 MayUsing Laws to Help Solve the Public Health Crisis of Mental Illness
31. 17 MayFact-checking Medical Claims
32. 17 MayIs the ACO DOA? Reasonable Minds Can Improve the Draft Regulations
33. 17 MaySingle Payer in Vermont? Well, Not Exactly
34. 17 MayA New Norm for Hospital Operations
35. 16 MayNewt And The Health Wonks: A Tale of Lust And Power
36. 16 MayMusings on PHRs & Consumer Engagement
37. 16 MayThe Last Best Hope
38. 16 MayThe Hospitalist Field Turns 15: What The Past Says About The Future
39. 16 MayDoes Mitt Romney Deserve the Abuse He’s Getting on Health Care? Yes, He Does.
40. 16 MayWellpoint gets aggressive on inpatient payment changes
41. 15 MayHow Should Medicare Pay for Medical Care?
42. 14 MayCloud Only is Dead for Health
43. 13 MaySorry, been busy!
44. 13 MayThe Quantified Self and the Future of Health Care
45. 12 MayThe Lightweight Romney Health Plan
46. 12 MayThe Social Life of Health Information
47. 12 MayThe Dual Online Identities of Physicians
48. 12 MaySilicon Valley roars back…in healthcare too?
49. 11 MayThe Unbearable Lightness of Being Mitt
50. 10 MayOutrage is Easy. Solutions are Hard.
51. 10 MayGoogle Health Put in Stasis
52. 10 MayLet’s Just Keep Killing and Maiming Them
53. 10 MayWhy We Should Think Twice About Getting A CT Scan
54. 9 MayNeither the Republicans Nor the Democrats Want to Face the Provider Cost Problem
55. 9 MayWhat If You Give a Party and No One Comes?
56. 9 MayHealth 2.0 Advisors at Tiecon 11
57. 7 MayThe Quest for Price Transparency
58. 6 MayHockey Teams and AED’s Save Lives
59. 5 MayI Wish We Were Less Patient
60. 5 MayYes, Thanks — We’ve Heard About Google Health
61. 5 MayCABG in Decline
62. 5 MayTen Rules for Health Care Organizations Interested in Using Social Media
63. 5 MayTranslation Needed
64. 5 MayWhere is there mHealth, really?
65. 3 MayA Mother’s Day Manifesto: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
66. 3 MayTHCB Live: SAP
67. 3 MayInterview:CareLogistics and Mercy St. Vincent
68. 3 MayHIT Trends Summary for April 2011
69. 3 MayMicrosoft HSG Bets Future on Amalga
70. 3 MayOsama and the Cost of Health Care
71. 2 May(Over)Simplifying EHR Usability
72. 2 MayHealth Care in the Cloud: A ‘Case Study of What Not To Do’
73. 2 MayGOP Bill Promotes Greater Federal Control of Exchanges
74. 2 MayBig community hospital CEO pay-out. Normal, criminal, both?
75. 1 MayThe Identity Theft Smoke Screen
76. 1 MayConnector Update
77. 1 MayMedicare Announces Rules For Quality Bonuses To Hospitals
78. 1 MayHow Many Diseases Does It Take?

April 2011

1. 29 AprVermont Chooses Single-Payer: Who Else Has an Appetite for Experimentation?
2. 29 AprSome Employers Already Sending Workers To Exchanges to Buy Health Insurance
3. 29 AprAre We Entering an Era of Political Cooperation on Medicare?
4. 29 AprRethinking IMS Health v. Sorrell: Privacy as a First Amendment Value
5. 28 AprCan Berwick Be Saved? Here’s One Possible Scenario
6. 28 AprFixing The Failure At Physician Compare
7. 27 AprThe Rashomon of Health Care: Why the Government is Promoting and Hindering ACOs at the Same Time
8. 27 AprA Rebuttal to PHR Luddites
9. 27 AprNational Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
10. 27 AprControlling the Medicare Budget — Time to Fast Forward to 1999?
11. 26 Apr$3 Million Heritage Health Prize: Interview with Dr. Richard Merkin
12. 26 AprThe Disappearing Family Doctor – Is It a Bad Thing?
13. 26 AprA Modest Proposal: What If All Specialty Procedures Were Coded with 4 CPT Codes?
14. 26 AprComparing Hospitals on Safety, Quality and Cost
15. 26 AprOf Zebras, Rare Diseases, and Google
16. 26 AprUp Next? Oral Health
17. 25 AprWho Gets Autism?
18. 25 AprInterview with Andy Cohen, CEO, Caring.com
19. 25 AprFeds on the Web: Medicare relaunches caregiver site
20. 25 AprThe Kübler-Ross Model of EHR Adoption
21. 25 AprThere Aren’t Enough Rich People To Pay For Medicare And Medicaid
22. 22 AprThe New Cost-Conscious Doctor
23. 22 AprTHCB Live: Health Dialog
24. 21 AprAre Decision Support Tools Turning Doctors into Idiots?
25. 21 AprAnd the Worst Health Care System in the World Is…
26. 21 AprFacebook Misstep Costs RI Physician Fine, Job
27. 21 AprIPAB — The New Punching Bag
28. 21 AprGreat job at CHCF Innovation Fund
29. 21 AprPrimary Care Revolt: Replace the RUC
30. 21 AprInterview: Resilient
31. 21 AprInterview: MEDecision
32. 20 AprPatient-Driven Care Instead of Patient-Centered Care
33. 20 AprCould Facebook be Your Platform?
34. 20 AprFinding A Path Through The Health Insurance Market ‘Gobbledygook’
35. 20 AprControlling the Medicare Budget – Two Infeasible Proposals
36. 20 AprThe Cusp of Consumer Engagement
37. 20 AprStubborn
38. 19 AprKosmix Bought by Wal-mart
39. 19 AprACO Fairy Tale Faces a Rumpelstiltskin Moment
40. 19 AprBureaucrats vs. Entrepreneurs
41. 19 AprTo get the MU money, just a test
42. 19 AprInterview with Louis Burns, CEO, Care Innovations
43. 18 AprRest in Peace: Personal Health Records (PHRs)
44. 18 AprThe 100% Estate Tax
45. 18 AprThe Health Insurance EHR
46. 18 AprSummary of CMS Proposed Rule on Accountable Care Organizations
47. 18 AprDid Nine Patients Have to Die?
48. 18 AprThree Formulas
49. 18 AprFostering Innovation in Healthcare IT
50. 18 AprCato’s Cannon on Medicaid–Right but Wrong, again
51. 18 AprWhen Projects Fail, Should We Fault the Technology?
52. 18 AprNear Chicago next week? Meet Todd Park!
53. 16 AprTrump wants Canadian health care?
54. 15 AprDoes America Want Apple or Android for Health Care?
55. 15 AprWhy Direct is a Hit and PCAST is an Outcast
56. 15 AprThe messy TEDMED divorce
57. 15 AprTHCB Live: Microsoft
58. 15 AprBad Medicine: TriCare’s Noncoverage of Evidence-based Opiate Maintenance Therapy
59. 15 AprHealth Wonk Review
60. 14 AprThe Tufnel Effect
61. 14 AprPersonal Health Records: Will Doctors Connect?
62. 14 AprHealth 2.0 Show TODAY
63. 14 AprIOM Health Data Initiative Forum is June 9
64. 13 AprUnlucky Student
65. 13 Apr“Trust Us” Just Doesn’t Cut It
66. 13 AprWhy Medicare Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Solution
67. 12 AprTurf Wars
68. 12 AprThe Science and Religion of Patient Safety
69. 12 AprThe Partnership for Patients: The Inside Scoop on a Game Changing Safety Initiative
70. 12 AprTime to End The Health Care Tax Exclusion?
71. 12 AprThe Patient-Centered EHR
72. 11 AprTo the Barricades!
73. 11 AprHIT Trends Summary for March 2011
74. 11 AprPatientsLikeMe goes big, doesn’t stay home
75. 10 AprThe Massachusetts Mistake
76. 10 AprThe RUC’s Defense
77. 10 AprSekou & Steve: When Does Death Begin?
78. 10 AprPonzi Schemes
79. 10 AprWhy CMIOs Matter, and Why We Hired One
80. 9 AprThe evolution of THCB
81. 8 AprVideo Collage: KP Center for Total Health
82. 8 AprTime for Toto to Pull the Curtain Away from Patient-Centered Medical Homes
83. 8 AprWhy We Still Kill Patients
84. 8 AprA Case for Self Insuring Small Business
85. 7 AprWhy ACOs Won’t Work
86. 7 AprThe Kaisingers link up
87. 5 AprMore EMRs for all
88. 5 AprMedicare, Medicaid Get Squeezed in Ryan Plan
89. 5 AprACO Rules: Where’s the Beef?
90. 5 AprMedical Loss Ratio: Putting Percentages and Politics Aside
91. 5 AprInvalidated Results Watch
92. 5 AprMedical Loss Ratios – Again!
93. 4 AprWhy Primary Care Parity Matters
94. 4 AprAnother Swing at the Windmill of VAP
95. 4 AprAccountable Care Organizations and Antitrust
96. 3 AprThe ACO Rules & Privacy
97. 3 AprFirst Impressions of the Medicare ACO Rule
98. 3 AprFull employment for health futurists?
99. 2 AprMinor League Report Cards
100. 1 AprSave Money on Medical Costs – Get Your Old Medical Records
101. 1 AprInspiration, spirit, connection, optimism–Health 2.0 Spring Fling

March 2011

1. 31 MarDoes the GOP Have a Health Plan?
2. 31 MarHow the Veterans are Winning the War
3. 31 MarShaken, Flooded, Stressed by Power Outages, Fukushima Daiichi Moves into Second Place
4. 31 MarAccountability? Heaven forbid!
5. 30 MarThe Thing to Watch in the Medicare ACO Regulations
6. 30 MarDoes My Doctor Trust Me (and Does It Matter)?
7. 30 MarRemember: Technology is but a Tool
8. 30 MarOregon Death with Dignity Act vindicated
9. 30 MarACOs: Unicorn breeding rules emerging
10. 30 MarThe Cost of Apples
11. 30 MarPotassium Iodide Pills
12. 29 MarA Normal Pregnancy Is a Retrospective Diagnosis
13. 29 MarA Growing Chorus on the RUC
14. 29 MarYou’re Sick. I’m Not. Too Bad.
15. 28 MarWhich Way Transparency Nirvana?
16. 28 MarRadiologist: Commoditize Thyself
17. 28 MarDeciding What Works
18. 28 MarHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (EHR) Bomb
19. 28 MarA Patient is Not a Shunt
20. 26 MarPrimary Care Workforce Situation: Not Hopeless
21. 26 MarThe Neverending Story
22. 26 MarLife Saving Errors
23. 25 MarAre Patients and Interoperability Finally Coming to the Fore of Health IT?
24. 24 MarThe Incredible and Wasteful Complexity of the US Healthcare System
25. 24 MarIs That Thorazine in the Baby’s Bottle?
26. 23 MarNo One Cares About Your Health (or No One is Willing to Pay For It)!
27. 23 MarNurse Staffing, Patient Mortality, And a Lady Named Louise
28. 22 MarSermo teams with J&J
29. 22 MarThe CMIO Should Be a Doctor
30. 22 MarHealth Information Security and the Cloud
31. 22 MarWho Owns Patient Data?
32. 22 MarWhat’s The Worst Case Scenario In Japan Nuke Crisis?
33. 22 MarDeath Panels Everyone Can Live With
34. 21 MarDirect project heading in right direction
35. 21 MarInsurance Companies Dancing Without Touching
36. 21 MarUnjust Enrichment
37. 19 MarThe Real Cost of Early Elective Deliveries
38. 19 MarA World Without Breast Cancer?
39. 18 MarHeritage–Even More Prizes
40. 18 MarThe Quest for the “Not For Comfort” Healthcare Organization
41. 18 MarTHCB Live: Alcatel-Lucent’s Jim White
42. 18 MarAre Market-Oriented Economists Wrong About Health Care?
43. 18 MarPrivatize Medicaid? Have We Learned Nothing??
44. 17 MarThe Promise of Stem Cell Research: Recent Advancements and Setbacks
45. 17 MarTHCB Live: Betty Otter-Nickerson, President, Sage Healthcare
46. 17 MarBias And How to Deal With It
47. 17 MarThe Inspector General Observes
48. 16 MarAEI defends Health 2.0 vs the “old guard”
49. 16 MarTele-what?
50. 16 MarLooking For Quality In the Wrong Place
51. 15 MarNot So Fast – Why It Pays to Wait Until FY 2012 on Meaningful Use
52. 14 MarFrom Jeopardy! To Your Physician’s Black Bag: Could a Supercomputer Really Assist With Health Care?
53. 14 MarMaine Waiver Expected to Increase Insurer Pressures on States
54. 14 MarMedicaid and (supposed) Welfare Dependence
55. 14 MarA Speed Bump on the Road to Meaningful Use
56. 14 MarA Doctor is Not a Bank
57. 14 MarCatching Babies? JD Kleinke talks (well, IMs)
58. 13 MarHealth 2.0 @ SXSW
59. 12 MarWhy Berwick Matters
60. 12 MarTough Talk
61. 11 MarQuality or value? A Measure for the 21st Century
62. 11 MarWhy Medical Ethics Should Matter to Patients
63. 10 MarNurses: Protocol -ed to Extinction?
64. 10 MarWhy Apple iPad will Dominate in the Enterprise
65. 10 MarGovernment Failure
66. 10 MarObservations About the Israeli Health Care System
67. 10 MarPerspective
68. 9 MarThe Fall of Berwick?
69. 9 MarThe Urgency of Medicaid Reform
70. 9 MarThe GOP’s Health Policy Cynics
71. 8 MarHealth Insurance Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Better Health
72. 7 MarWhy Consumer-Driven Health Care Will Fail
73. 7 MarThe Ultimate Sacrifice
74. 6 MarThird Place Health Care
75. 6 MarDoctors Love iPads. What Does it Mean? What Does it Mean?
76. 6 MarHealth 2.0 Spring Fling
77. 6 MarHIT Trends Summary for February 2011
78. 4 MarVisualizing the Threat Posed by Antibiotic Resistance
79. 4 MarMedicaid and Health Outcomes (again)
80. 4 MarRealizing Value from Health IT: A BCG Response to the PCAST report
81. 4 MarHealth 2.0 News Bites are up
82. 4 MarXerox Blog Talk Radio: Personal Health Information
83. 3 MarFixing America’s Health Care Reimbursement System
84. 3 MarThe Value of a Life
85. 3 MarTHCB @ HIMSS11
86. 3 MarHealth 2.0 Spring Fling–preview interviews
87. 3 MarFreeing the Data
88. 3 MarHealth 2.0 Spring Fling Updates
89. 2 MarDe Tocqueville Rewrites the Affordable Care Act
90. 2 MarThe Insanity of Health Care Pricing, aka Alice in Medical Land
91. 2 MarLaboratories of Democracy, Part 2
92. 2 MarHIMSS11: Setting Expectations
93. 1 MarLiquid Vapor
94. 1 MarDefined Contribution Health Care—The Conservatives’ Silver Bullet

February 2011

1. 28 FebGlen Tullman @ HIMSS11
2. 28 FebThe HMO in Your Future
3. 28 FebFree Drug Samples and Hospital Hotels: Which is the Greater Evil?
4. 28 FebAre Academic Medical Centers Toast in a Post-Healthcare Reform World?
5. 28 FebHeart Failure or System Failure?
6. 27 FebGuess Who Has Been Over-Treated For More Than Twenty Five Years?
7. 26 FebThe Other Scarlet Letter
8. 25 FebThe Triumph of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
9. 25 FebThe Obamacare Shift
10. 25 FebRegression to the Mean
11. 25 FebHIMSS11 Recap
12. 24 FebGE Healthcare @ HIMSS11
13. 24 FebThe Power of a Network: Health Information Exchanges
14. 24 FebHITECH in High Gear
15. 24 FebIs Economic Credentialing A Tool for Primary Care to Lead ACOs?
16. 24 FebA Family Physician’s Manifesto
17. 24 FebJonathan Bush @HIMSS11
18. 24 FebConflicts Of Interest In Guideline Development: A Dirty Little Secret Gets Aired Again
19. 23 FebEmotional Automation Revisited
20. 23 FebOCR Imposes $4.3M Penalty for Violation of HIPAA/HITECH Privacy Rule
21. 23 FebWhat’s Yours Is Actually Mine
22. 22 FebSurvivor
23. 22 FebRobert Reich Connects the Dots
24. 22 FebTHCB @ HIMSS11
25. 22 FebWhat’s In a Word?
26. 21 FebTwo Kidneys and 100,000 Lives
27. 21 FebHIMSS11 Update from the Chairman
28. 21 FebHIMSS11 Live: Meaningful Use
29. 21 FebLet’s Face(book) the Hard Truth About Healthcare
30. 21 FebGetting DIRECTLy to the Point
31. 21 FebComputers in 2020
32. 20 FebWhat Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets
33. 18 FebNew Cures! Faster! Faster!
34. 18 FebEmployers as Doctors
35. 18 FebThe Individual Mandate: Another Look at the Penalty Trade-Off
36. 18 FebGetting an Estimate
37. 18 FebWatson: A Computer So Smart, It Can Say, “Yes, Doctor”
38. 18 FebReplace The RUC
39. 17 FebHow to Meaningfully Shop for an EHR, Part 2
40. 15 FebHealth IT Future: A Tale of Three Watsons
41. 15 FebNIH and Drug Innovation
42. 14 FebAQC to ACO: As Goes Massachusetts, So Goes the Nation?
43. 11 FebA Game-Changing Statistic: 1 in 250
44. 11 FebA Game-Changing Statistic: 1 in 250
45. 10 FebTHCB Recommends
46. 10 FebHow to Meaningfully Shop for an EHR
47. 10 FebTHCB recommends
48. 10 FebExploitations of Immortality
49. 10 FebTHCB Recommends …
50. 10 FebOrganizedWisdom storms the waiting room!
51. 10 FebTHCB Recommends …
52. 9 FebThings Are About to Get Ugly
53. 9 FebWhere Doctors Locate
54. 8 FebEthical Blinders?
55. 8 FebTransmogrifying California Healthcare
56. 8 FebA Multi-Layered Defense for Web Applications
57. 8 FebPatient Privacy and PCAST
58. 7 FebWhy This Primary Care Doctor Loves His EHR
59. 7 FebThe Greater Fool
60. 5 FebHealth Care Reform in the U.K. and U.S
61. 5 FebShaw Got It Right
62. 5 FebIt Hurts To A Point
63. 3 FebACOs and Antitrust
64. 3 Feb2011 Predictions: MU Goes Tactical, ACO Strategic
65. 3 FebHIT Trends Summary for January 2011
66. 3 FebWhy Aren’t The Uninsured Protesting In The Streets Like The Egyptians?
67. 2 FebDirect Project Pilots Announced
68. 2 FebDirect Project Implementations Take Flight
69. 2 FebJudge Vinson’s Tea Party Manifesto
70. 2 FebNJ ACO: A Sheep in PHYCORE Clothing
71. 1 FebThe Beautiful Uncertainty of Science
72. 1 FebCruel Shoes
73. 1 FebFighting Compassion Fatigue
74. 1 FebPhysician Executives Should Not Ignore How Smartphones Will Transform Healthcare
75. 1 FebInsurers Flat Foot Their Way Into the Social Media Era

January 2011

1. 31 JanVictims of Health Care Reform
2. 31 JanThe Safety of HIT-Assisted Care
3. 31 JanA Medical Student’s Dilemma
4. 31 JanElectronic Medical Records Attack Hospitals
5. 31 JanThe Price of Marginal Thinking in Healthcare Policy
6. 30 JanSome EHR Vendors Losing Out as Market Evolves
7. 30 JanDefining a Maturity Model for HIEs
8. 27 JanCrowdsourcing the Future: Health 2.0 and HIPAA
9. 27 JanCommerce Clause Challenges to Health Care Reform
10. 27 JanWhat People Living With Disability Can Teach Us
11. 26 JanCalendar: Medically-Related Social Media Websites
12. 26 JanPatients Lie
13. 26 JanHealth 2.0 Spring Conference Update
14. 25 JanRip Van Doctor
15. 25 JanTwitter: An Essential Tool for the Physician Executive
16. 25 JanAdvances in Connected Health Sensor Technologies
17. 25 JanReflections on the Certification Experience
18. 24 JanThe $1000 Coding Error
19. 24 JanEHR Product Management
20. 24 JanPCAST HIT Report Becomes a Political Piñata
21. 24 JanObtaining Meaningful Use Stimulus Payments
22. 23 JanThe Laboratories of Democracy
23. 23 JanJob Post: THCB Editorial
24. 23 JanACOs and Community Hubs of Wellness & Health
25. 23 JanThe End of the World as We Know It
26. 22 JanA Family Physician’s EMR Experience
27. 22 JanMassachusetts, Utah, or Nothing: How States Should Address Exchanges
28. 22 JanIs the Culture Finally Shifting?
29. 22 JanFor ‘Liberating the NHS’ Read ‘Dismantling the NHS’
30. 22 JanGeomancy, Haruspex and Contextual Discovery
31. 21 JanHealth Bill Sets Out Details of Cameron Plan to Reform NHS
32. 21 JanUpdates on Proposed Stage 2 and 3 Meaningful Use Criteria
33. 20 JanThe ACC’s Cardiac Stress Testing Appropriate Use Criteria Answer the Wrong Question
34. 20 JanEMR and the Falling Patient
35. 20 JanThe Proposed Stage 2 and 3 Meaningful Use Recommendations
36. 19 JanNot Colon Cancer
37. 19 JanJob Post: THCB Editorial
38. 19 JanCentrists Back Health Care Reform
39. 19 JanTHCB Recommends …
40. 19 JanInsurance Exchange Budgets: How Much is Needed?
41. 19 JanHealth Care Georgians Deserve
42. 18 JanMinimum Essential Benefits
43. 18 JanHPHC Goes Its Way, Thoughtfully
44. 18 JanWhat Most Needs Repealing and Replacing
45. 18 JanPutting the Patient First, Literally
46. 18 JanComment on the PCAST Report
47. 18 JanA Necessary Compromise
48. 17 JanRepeal is Irresponsible
49. 17 JanThe Bookmarked Final Rules
50. 17 JanSo, Are EHRs a Waste of Time and Money?
51. 17 JanThe Remarkable Rise of the Hyphenated-Hospitalist
52. 15 JanDicker With Your Doc? Not So Fast…
53. 15 JanIs There Something Wrong With the Scientific Method?
54. 15 JanTruth or Consequences
55. 14 JanReady, Set…ACO?
56. 13 JanThe Myth of Consumer-Directed Health Care
57. 13 JanTHCB Recommends …
58. 13 JanDoctors in Congress
59. 13 JanTHCB recommends
60. 12 JanData Mining Case Reaches the Supreme Court
61. 12 JanCyber Insurance
62. 12 JanWhat Do Medical Errors Cost Your State?
63. 11 JanHealth 2.0 San Francisco РTim O’Reilly Keynote
64. 11 JanHealth 2.0 San Francisco – Tim O’Reilly Keynote
65. 11 JanSan Francisco Early Bird Price Ends This Week
66. 11 JanHospital Culture and Surviving the New Landscape
67. 11 JanSeeding the Cloud
68. 10 JanWhy Christians Should Support Health Care Rationing
69. 10 JanGhosts of Health Reform Past
70. 10 JanHealthcare Insurance Future: Brokers, Consultants, Agents
71. 10 JanDefinition of HIE: What’s Yours?
72. 10 JanDefinition of HIE: What’s Yours?
73. 10 JanEarly Experiences with Hospital Certification
74. 10 Jan(Limited) Sympathy for the Blue Devil(s)
75. 9 JanThe Moral Component to Transparency
76. 9 JanClueless in Utah?
77. 8 JanThe Study Question
78. 8 JanThat Which We Call a Rose
79. 8 JanWicked Good
80. 7 JanSam’s Club as a locus for (The) Prevention (Plan)?
81. 7 JanHow the Republican Assault on Health Care Could Backfire On Them
82. 7 JanHealth Problem Quantified
83. 6 JanThe Needle In the Haystack
84. 5 JanA Healthcare Information Services Provider Business Model
85. 5 JanEighth Annual Healthcare Conference at Harvard Business School
86. 5 JanJob Post: THCB Editorial
87. 5 JanHealth Impact Assessment: A Tool That Can Build A Healthier America
88. 4 Jan2010 Unplugged
89. 4 JanTurning the Clock Back Isn’t Enough: The Nasty Surprise Awaiting the GOP on Health Care and the Deficit
90. 4 JanWanted: A PCAST Patient Portal
91. 3 JanHealth 2.0 Heads to San Diego: Early Bird Pricing Ends TODAY
92. 3 JanPharmaceutical Research Expenditures and Industrial Policy
93. 3 JanNew Year’s Resolution Diets
94. 3 JanWhat Would A Truly Patient-Centered ACO Look Like?
95. 3 JanThe “Unreasonable” Premium Increase Rule
96. 3 JanBa-Ba-Ba-Ba Boom!
97. 3 JanDoes Medicare Have it Right in 2011?
98. 1 JanHealth Alert: Health and Education
99. 1 JanA Bipartisan Agreement on Health Care Was Possible in 2009
100. 1 JanCritical Review of Medical Literature