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2012

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December 2012

  1. Health Reform: The Political Storms Are Far from Over
  2. Advances In Cancer 2012
  3. What Does the Dartmouth Atlas Have to Say About the Politics of the ACA?
  4. Through a Scanner Darkly: Three Health Care Trends for 2013
  5. Is In Car Health Monitoring the Answer? Maybe? Maybe Not So Much?
  6. (Not) Saving the Best For Last
  7. Making Sense of the Electronic Health Record
  8. Is Russia ready for Health 2.0?
  9. The Empowered Patient
  10. Can Big Data Save My Dad From Cancer?
  11. The Pain Index
  12. A Well-Armed and Regulated Citizenry, Led by Heavily-Armed Teachers in Body Armor …
  13. The Battle for the Souls of American Doctors
  14. Questions and Answers
  15. Building Smarter Hospitals: The Widely Misunderstood Relationship Between Discharging Patients Too Early and the Likelihood of a 30 Day Readmission
  16. Can We Stop Dementia Before It Starts?
  17. Brainstorming About the Future of Clinical Documentation
  18. Now Is Not the Time to Talk About Gun Control
  19. The Future of Medical Innovation and Commercialization
  20. The Only Way Out of the Health Care Wilderness
  21. Are In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Clinics Scamming Customers?
  22. Ode to Mystery Blob
  23. Will You Receive a Tax Credit to Help You Buy Insurance in 2014? How Much?
  24. State-Federal “Partnership” Exchanges: The Rarely Discussed Alternative Option
  25. To DNR or Not to DNR
  26. More Signs of Rate Shock and Awe
  27. My Grand, Sweeping Cardiovascular Predictions for 2013
  28. Are We Finally Seeing the Dawn of the Golden Age of Interoperability?
  29. Repairing ObamaCare
  30. Is Fee-for-Service Really Dead? Really?
  31. Patient Politics: the PCORI Puzzle
  32. Google, Whole Foods, and … Big Pharma?
  33. ACOs: We’re NOT There Yet
  34. The Great Influenza of 2013?
  35. Aetna’s Martha Wofford Talks Technology Development
  36. Health Insurance Exchanges Will Transform Health Care. Magically Increase Transparency. Improve Access. And Maybe Even Lower Costs. But Only if We Get it Right …
  37. Getting Quality Right: Exercise Due Caution When Grading Hospitals, Schools and Doctors
  38. The Doctor Will Tweet You Now
  39. Doctor, I’m Not Comfortable with That Order
  40. The (Not So) Affordable Care Act – Get Ready For Some Startling Rate Increases
  41. Dude, Gimme My Damn Data. Seriously.
  42. Deja Association: The Republican Health Reform Idea Hiding in Obamacare
  43. How Using a ‘Scorecard’ Can Smooth Your Hospital’s Transition to a Population Health-based Reimbursement Model
  44. Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation
  45. The Medicalization of Modern Life
  46. Can Too Much Preventive Care Be Hazardous to Your Health?
  47. Inside Baseball: Getting the Federal Exchange Right

November 2012

  1. Trust But Verify: Why CMS Got It Right on EHR Oversight
  2. Why Health Care Is Reshaping Itself
  3. Meaningful Scrutiny for Meaningful Use
  4. THCB Calendar Dec. 18 — Donald Berwick: Is a Bright Future for Health Care Possible?
  5. What the Rick Scott Decision Says About the Future of Health Care in the U.S.
  6. Tobacco Companies Must Punch Selves in Face, Implement Court Orders
  7. ACOs: Is There a “There” There?
  8. Health 2.0’s Berlin Code-a-thon, Sponsored by Aetna International Spurs Creation of New Mobile Apps to Improve Health
  9. Is the Readmissions Penalty Off Base?
  10. What If Success Sucks?
  11. Innovation Case Studies: Small Hospital Venture Funds
  12. Health Care Reform Gangnam Style
  13. Pay for Performance in Healthcare: Do We Need Less, More, or Different?
  14. Is It Time To Charge Medicaid Members for ER Usage?
  15. Doctors Make Mistakes. Can We Talk About That?
  16. Engage with Grace this Thanksgiving
  17. Study Says, Something Other Than What We Were Expecting. EHR Portals Increase Hospitalization Rates
  18. Cigarettes Should Cost $25 a Pack
  19. ‘Reducing Cancer Among Women of Color’ App Challenge
  20. Skilled Nursing Providers Playing an Increasing Role in Reducing Hospital Re-admissions
  21. Denying Reality About Bad Prognoses
  22. Tough Hard Decision: What To Do About Medicare
  23. The Good Doctor
  24. Winners of the Patient Safety Reporting System Challenge
  25. End of the Line in the ICU
  26. Health 2.0 Europe Showcased the Latest Innovations as Health Care Goes Digital
  27. Building a Better Parkland
  28. Roundup of State Ballot Initiatives on Health Issues
  29. The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
  30. Beacons: Beaming EKG Results to Emergency Departments
  31. Does America Really Want Change?
  32. The Mentalists
  33. The Next Digital Health IPO?
  34. Set National Standards for Health Information Systems
  35. Campaign Promises
  36. Did the Election Save ObamaCare?
  37. Could Same-Sex Marriage Improve the Nation’s Health?
  38. Tool Kit: Why Portals Don’t Work Very Well
  39. Consult: Bleomycin Lung Injury
  40. Obamacare Is Still Vulnerable
  41. Nine States to Watch for ACA Implementation
  42. The Doctor Is In
  43. Can Quality Be on India’s Health Care Agenda? Should it Be?
  44. The Last Well Child
  45. The 2012 Elections and 2013 — A Daunting To-Do List
  46. The Future of Health Care in Obama’s Second Term
  47. Socialism Kills
  48. Nate Silver Is King, Long Live Nate Silver
  49. Being Human
  50. The Eight-Year Journey to Accountable Care
  51. Embracing Change: Leading Through Transformation
  52. State of the EHR Nation
  53. Setting the Record Straight on Medicaid’s “Success”
  54. The Future of Health Reform May Turn on Senate Races
  55. Tracking the Social Doctor: Opening Up Physician Referral Data (And Much More)
  56. “Unaccountable” An Important, Courageous and Deeply Flawed Book
  57. The Election and Healthcare IT
  58. Physician Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts
  59. Vote No On Physician-Assisted Suicide
  60. The Doctor as Patient
  61. Doctorology: Communication. It’s All Good
  62. Healthcare Law on the Ballot
  63. The Unheard Heart: A Metaphor For Medicine In the Digital Age
  64. Health Care Purchasers, Consumers Need Price Data if We Are Ever Going to Get to a System of Value-Based Care
  65. Why Everything You Know About EHR Design Is Probably Wrong
  66. How Health Care Changed While You Were Watching the Election

October 2012

  1. Großes Potential für digitale Gesundheitsdienste
  2. The Enormous Potential for Digital Health Care Services in Germany
  3. Improving Patient Safety Through Electronic Health Record Simulation
  4. Four New Tools for Brain Workouts
  5. Why Obamacare Is Good for White People
  6. Irresistible Forces
  7. Laughing at the Chutzpah of the Right on Medicaid
  8. A Sign of the Times
  9. Man versus Pizza
  10. How to Stop a Future Cancer Epidemic
  11. The Good Doctor Learns to Fly
  12. How Bundled Payments Just Might Save Health Care From Itself
  13. Patient Satisfaction: The New Rules of Engagement
  14. Is the Nurse Incompetent?
  15. The Return of Counter-Conventional Wisdom
  16. Blue Button Mash-Up & EHR Accessibility Module Challenge Winners
  17. What HHS Might Look Like Under President Romney
  18. A Coming Storm: FDA Regulation of Mobile Medical Applications
  19. Training Future Physicians in Safety and Quality
  20. The New Bioterrorism? The Hacked Medical Device
  21. The Organic Medical Home
  22. The Wages of Home Care
  23. Stop Cancer Research?
  24. Dr. Yes
  25. The Day After
  26. Walmart Moves Health Care Forward Again
  27. The New New Medicine
  28. The Stockholm Syndrome and EMRs
  29. Alvin Roth Receives Economics Nobel For Flawed Residency Match System
  30. Health 2.0 Berlin Code-a-Thon Sponsored by Aetna International
  31. Ensuring the Long-Term Viability of Health Insurance Exchanges
  32. The EMR and the Case of the Disappearing Patient
  33. Linking Meaningful Use and HIT Sector Consolidation
  34. The Future of Health Is in #Opendata
  35. Outlawing Templated Notes in the Electronic Health Record
  36. Hey, Known Spender!
  37. Digital Health: Almost a Real, Live Business
  38. United Healthcare Expands to Brazil
  39. First, Do Net Harm?
  40. The Mystery Data Set
  41. Don’t Confuse Hard Science With Bad Pharma
  42. Health IT and Dad
  43. Risks and the Benefits: What Health Policy Can Learn from Clinical Medicine
  44. Instadoc!
  45. What Exactly Is Health 2.0?
  46. A Time for Boundless Energy and Optimism
  47. Private Insurance Exchanges––Will They Save Money? Will the Idea Grow?
  48. Health 2.0 Code-a-thon – SF Winners
  49. A Tale of Two Keynotes: Futurist Joe Flower and Aetna’s Mark Bertolini
  50. Transforming Care Through Transparency
  51. Health Plan Case Studies: A New Florida Blue
  52. 3 in 5 Physicians Would Quit Today If They Could
  53. The Nefarious Big Bird- Health Care Connection
  54. How the Rest of the World Does It: New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital
  55. Single Payer Health: It’s Only Fair
  56. Can Banks Offer the ‘Digital Key’ to Healthcare?
  57. Healthcare CEOs Weigh In On Technology and the Growing Importance of Social Collaboration
  58. State of Disruption
  59. The Data Entry Paradox
  60. Rethinking the Provider Certification Game
  61. The Art of Diagnosis
  62. Vinod Khosla Thinks I’m Narrow-Minded
  63. The Health Care Debate Within the Debate
  64. The Health of Nations
  65. Body 2.0 Health Tech Expo San Francisco
  66. OpenNotes: Great News for Patient Engagement!!
  67. The Health 2.0 Top 10 List
  68. Strengthening Primary Care With A New Professional Congress
  69. Five Reasons Americans Should Want Electronic Health Records
  70. OpenNotes: The Results Are In
  71. Can Personalized Care Survive ObamaCare’s Assembly Line Medicine?
  72. Medical Malpractice – What Obamacare Misses
  73. Destination Unknown

September 2012

  1. CancerLand – The Undiscovered Country
  2. Better Than Pandora for Cats
  3. The Day the Electronic Medical Record Tried to Kill Me
  4. Eight Things I Keep Wishing Med School Had Taught Me About Business
  5. Are Retail Clinics Dangerous?
  6. Will “Partnership” Meeting Propel Mass Movement?
  7. The Ethics of Stupidity: Should a Good Doctor Refuse to Treat an Obese Patient?
  8. Personalized Medicine vs. ObamaCare
  9. Behind The Numbers, A Diminishing Sense Of Urgency
  10. Will the Rollout Of the Exchanges Be Delayed?
  11. Last Week
  12. Shock and Awe: EHRs Work as Designed
  13. Kill the Codes
  14. Why Do Academic Medical Centers Do Poorly on Quality Report Cards?
  15. Waste Not
  16. Why Everybody Should Read “Why Nobody Believes the Numbers”
  17. Care On the Continuum
  18. The Trillion Dollar Conundrum
  19. The Wrong Battles
  20. Health Insurance Exchanges Work
  21. Folly To Forecast Startup Performance?
  22. Asking the Wrong Questions About the Electronic Health Record
  23. Are You Still Wasting Your Time on Twitter?
  24. Morgenthaler’s Picks: The Top Twelve Health IT Startups
  25. How ObamaCare Could Cause Nonprofit Hospitals To Lose Tax-Exempt Status
  26. The Doctor-Patient Relationship. Is Over.
  27. Out of the Box Thinking on Avoiding Hospital Readmissions. Stop Trying
  28. The Coming Health Care Singularity
  29. The Wrong Way to Save Money on Health Care
  30. The Great Cheesecake Robbery
  31. Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing
  32. Health Care’s Man on the Moon Moment?
  33. My Open Source Cure
  34. Obama vs. Romney: A Detailed Analysis of Mitt Romney’s Health Care Reform Plan
  35. It’s the Patient, Stupid
  36. Dropping Out
  37. Healthcare Reform’s Missing Link — Nurse Practitioners
  38. Breaking News: Health Information Technology Sucks and it Costs too Much
  39. The Internet’s Downsides: Tell Us Your Stories
  40. Are Hospital Business Models on a Burning Platform? Not Yet, But It’s Inevitable.
  41. North Carolina Medicaid’s Patient-Centered Medical Home: Lessons Learned
  42. Good Business Models and Bad Business Models.
  43. Scaling is Hard. Case Study: athenahealth
  44. Are Organics More Nutritious? Again? Sigh.
  45. Economics and Health Systems
  46. Getting the Right Benchmarks For Stroke Care
  47. The ‘Southern Docs’ Sing Praises of ObamaCare
  48. What Business Can Learn From Cleveland Clinic: How To Report Quality To The Public
  49. Burnout
  50. Building a Medical Practice: Does Government Help or Hinder?
  51. Demo: Healthline Launches BodyMaps for the iPad
  52. Refocusing Long-Term Care on People: The Three I’s

August 2012

  1. Vinod Khosla: Technology Will Replace 80 Percent of Docs
  2. Why Lance Armstrong Matters. And Always Will Matter.
  3. The Moral Case for Romneycare 2.0
  4. What Next After Implementation? Challenges For the Informatics Community
  5. Nationwide Health Information Network Comes of Age
  6. Doctors Really Do Die Differently
  7. How to Replace the AMA
  8. Health Care: An Alternate Economic Universe
  9. Hospitals…Thinking About Getting Into Health Insurance? 6 Reasons To Lie Down Until the Urge Goes Away.
  10. Health Care Innovations Hiding in Plain Sight
  11. Fools’ Gold Rush: Obamacare And The Medicaid “Opportunity”
  12. A Tale of Two Systems
  13. The EHR “Final Rule” (Finally)
  14. Electronic Health Records In the Classroom?
  15. The Direct Project Has Teeth, but It Needs Pseudonymity
  16. What’s the Real Emergency Room?
  17. What Am I Worth?
  18. The Drug Formulary Death Cage Match of Awesomeness
  19. Medical Apps: The Next Generation
  20. Why Medicare Matters
  21. All Hell Hath Broken Loose
  22. The Age Rating Game: Will Older Americans Pay More Under Health Reform?
  23. 10 Ways to Make the EMR Meaningful and Useful
  24. Profits, Quality, and U.S. Hospitals
  25. Who Owns Patient Data?
  26. Why the Electronic Medical Record Needs to be Viewed as a Medical Device
  27. Why We Avoid Telling Patients the Truth
  28. All American Physicians Should Be Members of the AMA
  29. The Way Out of the Wilderness
  30. To Gauge Hospital Quality, Patients Deserve More Outcome Measures
  31. Let’s Do the Numbers
  32. Using Predictive Modeling to Make Better Decisions
  33. How Do We Bend the Cost Curve? Reduce the Waste.
  34. “Healthcare” vs. “Health Care”: The Definitive Word(s)
  35. KP’s Ray Baxter Talks Weighty Issues
  36. A Big Fat Stupid Law??
  37. The Coming Battle for Medicare
  38. Gamification
  39. My Doctor Is a Computer!
  40. Can Good Care Produce Bad Health?
  41. Here’s a Question to Ask Romney or Ryan
  42. Do You Believe Doctors Are Systems, My Friends?
  43. Hospital Rankings Get Serious
  44. What Healthcare Must Learn — from a Chain Restaurant
  45. The Health Care Handbook
  46. Closing the Translational Gap: A Challenge Facing Innovators in Medical Science — and in Digital Health
  47. See One, Do One, Harm One?
  48. The Weight of the Nation
  49. Why We Won’t See EHR Consolidation Anytime Soon
  50. Bad Directions
  51. Hospital Quality Under Scrutiny
  52. EHR Adoption Alone Does Not Guarantee Quality Care
  53. CMS Misses the Mark on Home Hemodialysis
  54. Reviving the Pipeline: A Call to Action For All
  55. The Stanford Lectures: So, Is Software Really Eating the World?
  56. Costs Continue to Rise. What Can Employers Do? The Answer May Be Direct Primary Care.
  57. Are Doctors Shifting to the Left?
  58. DSM-5 Is Dead. Long Live DSM-5.
  59. Breaking the Curve of Health Care Inflation
  60. The Most Powerful Health Care Group You’ve Never Heard Of
  61. Will Government-Directed Healthcare in Mass. Really Contain Costs?
  62. Making Good Health Care Companies Great
  63. An Important Day for China in Healthcare. What’s next?
  64. How Doctors Die
  65. Lessons from MinuteClinic
  66. Numbers Don’t Lie — The EHR Market Must Consolidate
  67. Is the Fact that I Am a Woman Considered a Pre-Existing Condition?
  68. You Have to Break Some Eggs If You Want to Make an Omelet
  69. Us and Them-Ism
  70. Et tu Dr. Gupta?
  71. The PED Question
  72. The 25 Questions
  73. The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers
  74. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way …
  75. Obesity: Global Public Health Challenge or Investment Opportunity?
  76. In God We Trust. All Others Must Bring Data.
  77. Why Should You Care Whether or Not Your State Decides to Expand Medicaid Coverage?
  78. App-Happy Health Care Full of Optimism, Money
  79. ONC Launches the Reporting Safety Events Challenge
  80. Latest CBO Report on Health Law Adds to Business Uncertainty
  81. Why Medical Management Will Re-Emerge
  82. The (Great) Colonoscopy Experience
  83. Needle Exchange Programs Vital In Fight Against AIDS
  84. Things Are About to Get Interesting

July 2012

  1. ‘Help Wanted’ For Medicaid Expansion
  2. Time For Biopharma To Jump On The “Big Data” Train?
  3. The Supreme Court May Have Saved Lives … by Keeping People Off Medicaid
  4. The Olympics, Doctors, NHS, Transformation, and Heroes: Why the Difference between USA and UK?
  5. Doctors, Patients, or Insurers? Who Will Shape Health Care?
  6. HealthCamp Boston 2012: Brainstorming the Future of Health Care
  7. Facebook May Grant Researchers Access to Study Data
  8. Health Care’s New Rules: If You Don’t Buy Insurance, Will You Really Pay the Tax?
  9. How the iPhone Might Disrupt The Medical Device Industry
  10. From Nursify to Visit Minder: Seven iPhone Apps We’d Like to See
  11. Physicians Aren’t (Feeling Very) Social
  12. To Gauge ObamaCare Impact, Ignore CBO and Focus on AQC
  13. Does Your Oncologist Care?
  14. Health Care Reform and the Laws of Unintended Consequences
  15. Uninsured Aurora Victim Could Face $2 Million In Medical Bills
  16. Building the Buildings of the Next Health Care
  17. Health Insurers & the Affordable Care Act: Extinction or Reinvention?
  18. Clinical Practice Guidelines as “Safe Harbors” against Malpractice Claims
  19. Why Nobody Believes the Numbers
  20. The New Doctor’s Desk Reference: How to Break Bad News (For Doctors)
  21. The Destructiveness of Measures
  22. Employers and Health Reform
  23. Monopoly Anyone? The Battle To Control Health Care
  24. How I Lost My Fear of Universal Health Care
  25. What Republicans Want to Take Away
  26. Crowdsourcing, Price Formation, and Health IT
  27. Priorities for States as Plans for HIXs Move Forward
  28. What We Talk About When We Talk About Nursing Shortages
  29. For America’s “Best Hospitals,” Reputation Doesn’t Hold as Much Weight
  30. Unleashing An Epidemic: Florida Gov Rick Scott Shows The Folly Of Cutting Safety Net Hospital Funding
  31. Hospitals Finding Patients On Google and Facebook
  32. How One Man Wound Up Deciding the Fate of Healthcare Reform
  33. Palo Alto Medical’s Innovation Center Announces Seed Funding for Accelerator Program
  34. Who Said EHRs Can’t Talk To Each Other?
  35. Clinical Trials for Beginners
  36. How Useful Is Personal Genomics? A Case Study
  37. Gregory House, MD, RIP
  38. Health Care Future Bright for Nurses. Stinks for Doctors.
  39. Will Anyone Listen When Former CMS Chiefs Call For More Objective Physician Payment?
  40. Your Doctor’s Brain
  41. Call For Innovators: Just Two Weeks Left to Enter the EHR Accessibility Module Challenge!
  42. Where’s the Controversy in Saving Lives?
  43. You Want to Sue Me?
  44. Are Fewer People in MA Paying the Individual Mandate Penalty?
  45. How the United States Supreme Court Saved My Life
  46. Alex B. Fair talks Medstartr
  47. 23andme buys Curetogether
  48. Would I Let My Son Play Football?
  49. What if Physicians Worked for Free?
  50. Is This Health Reform Which I See Before Me?
  51. States Should Opt Out of Medicaid — All The Way Out
  52. Crowdfunding: This Could Change Healthtech Startup Funding Forever
  53. Roberts’ “Flying Squirrel” Maneuver Takes Down the Affordable Care Act
  54. A Healthcare Contract With America
  55. Why You Are (Probably) Already Using The Most Powerful Digital Health App
  56. Cost-consciousness and clinical decision-making
  57. How Football Ends
  58. How American Independence Created A New Kind Of Patient
  59. Why States Won’t Opt Out of Medicaid Expansion
  60. Climbing the Medicaid Mountain
  61. What Happens Next? 2.0 Edition
  62. What Will the Supreme Court Decision Mean For the November Election?
  63. Should We Propose A Global Nutrition Treaty?
  64. Supreme Court Ruling: States Move Forward with Health Exchanges
  65. The Devil We Know
  66. The Problem with Transformation
  67. What Do We Do Now?

June 2012

  1. Is the Center For Innovation Innovating Too Fast?
  2. A Call For a New Primary Care Society
  3. Jeff Goldsmith on what’s next, post-SCOTUS
  4. SCOTUS Ruling An Unappreciated Win for the GOP
  5. The Beginning of the Next Healthcare
  6. Where’s the Outrage? Government Proposes (Food) Rationing!!!
  7. Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act
  8. SCOTUS Surprise
  9. The Supremes Rule: Why You Have to Love Lawyers and Politicians
  10. What The SCOTUS Ruling Means For Healthcare
  11. Heritage & Roberts decree, all the world be taxed
  12. Want to Revolutionize Healthcare? Enable Physicians, Don’t Replace Them
  13. Finally, Quality We Really Care About
  14. ACOs and Antitrust: A Few Words of Caution
  15. Innovation is Key to Controlling Health Care Costs
  16. Less Research Is Needed
  17. Zen and the Art of Not Thinking Magically
  18. What Romney Should Do On Health Care
  19. The Return of the Public Option
  20. Better Healthcare for Less — Even the NY Times Says: “It’s a movement!”
  21. Offensive Fouls and Defensive Medicine
  22. The Facebook-ACO-Military-Industrial Complex
  23. Conservative Supremes Can Overturn ACA With “All Deliberate Speed”
  24. Medicine Unplugged
  25. Not Everything that Counts Can Be Counted
  26. Why Reform Will Survive Mandate’s Fall
  27. Meaningful Consent
  28. The Case For the Exchanges
  29. ObamaCare and the End of Nothing
  30. If the Supreme Court Strikes Down the Mandate–What’s Next?
  31. Why High Deductible Plans Matter
  32. The Brave New World (of Health Insurance Exchanges)
  33. Ozombiecare
  34. You Get What You Pay For
  35. A (Real) Tragedy at the CDC
  36. The Coming Boom for Hospital Chains – and Bust for Non-Profits
  37. Safe Skyping: The Evolving Doctor-Patient Relationship
  38. Why the Supreme Court’s Healthcare Decision Will Mean a lot … and Not so Much
  39. The SCOTUS Pregame Show
  40. The KP Model in the UK
  41. Romney’s Response to ObamaCare
  42. My Initial Reaction to the Supreme Court Decision
  43. Your Doctor Cares (No, Really)
  44. How The Affordable Care Act Will Affect Doctors
  45. Healthcare M&A: Keep Calm and Carry On
  46. The Lethal Linkage of Medicaid Costs and Tuition
  47. Axial Makes a Deal with Mayo Clinic
  48. Are Female Physicians Underpaid?
  49. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Meaningful Use
  50. The NFL Concussion Crisis & The Doctor-Patient Relationship
  51. Why Doctors Interrupt
  52. Calculating Risk
  53. What The Emergence of an EMR Giant Means For the Future of Healthcare Innovation
  54. Why the Public’s Growing Disdain for the Supreme Court May Help Obamacare
  55. Missive from the DMZ
  56. The Psychology of Persuading Physicians
  57. Attention Innovators: The My Air, My Health HHS/EPA Challenge is Open!
  58. Seriously: Is Digital Health The Answer To Tech Bubble Angst?
  59. The Importance of Data and Care Coordination
  60. Mayor Bloomberg’s Soda Ban Proposal Hits the Wall
  61. Patient Power
  62. Finding a Good Doctor – A Doctor’s Notes
  63. Without Patient-Centered Health Plans, It’s the Same Tired Script
  64. Lightning Strikes Datapalooza
  65. Why New Nurses Can’t Find Jobs (No, Really)
  66. A Life in the Day of an EIR: Health IT Ain’t No Bubble for Venture Capital (…. so apply for the DC to VC Health IT startup showcase)
  67. Size Matters: Hospital Consolidation and Physicians
  68. Give Big Tobacco a Kick in the Ash and Save Lives
  69. The Political Economy of DSM-5
  70. Who’s Running Your Company: You or Your Client?
  71. The Irrelevance of the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare

May 2012

  1. Awaiting the Court’s Decision on Healthcare
  2. Get Funding For Your Next Startup! In D.C.
  3. Is Prostate Cancer Screening Truly Harmful?
  4. The President’s Health Care Law is Hurting Our Economy, and Must Be Fully Repealed
  5. Health Care and Constitutional Chaos
  6. Healthcare Needs a Quaking Aspen
  7. Innovation as a Cliché
  8. Have Management Papers Ever Changed Practice in Healthcare?
  9. Moments of Failure
  10. The Wrong Way to Stop Fake Drugs
  11. Save the Country with Preventive Care
  12. How Much Weight Should Anecdotes Really Have In Health Policy?
  13. Should the States Set Up ObamaCare Exchanges?
  14. Crafting a Social Media Policy
  15. Medicare Advantage Star Ratings: Detaching Pay from Performance
  16. USPSTF – It’s About Time
  17. Sex Sells (or at Least Leads to Some Interesting Analytics)
  18. New York Digital Health Accelerator: Last Call for Applications
  19. How Bad Is Azithromycin’s Cardiovascular Risk?
  20. Z-Packing
  21. FOO For Thought
  22. TEDMED 2012: Atul Butte
  23. June: A Big Month For ACO Watchers
  24. Expand Over-the-Counter Medications? Very Bad Idea
  25. Pete Seeger’s Blues
  26. How Doctors Are Trapped
  27. Shame
  28. The Lesion’s Curse
  29. Pills Still Matter
  30. The Lifesaving(?) Technology of Facebook
  31. Red or Blue Pill for Payment Reform? Both Won’t Work
  32. Activist Seeds – The Latest, Subtle Trend in Seed Investing
  33. Fast Science: The Uncertainty Paradox
  34. Don’t Bypass Physicians
  35. Making Privacy Policies Not Suck
  36. DSM 5 Finally Begins Its Belated and Necessary Retreat
  37. Even Aetna CEO Admits: We’re Toast
  38. Drug Data Shouldn’t Be Secret
  39. Slow Medicine
  40. Should Your Boss Encourage You to Take Drugs?
  41. Our Cancer Journey
  42. Hospitals or Health Plans: Who Do You Trust to “Connect” You with Your Health Records?
  43. When Reality TV Collides with Reality
  44. Inoculate the Budget Deficit From Healthcare Reform
  45. Side Effects May Include Financial Ruin
  46. Wireless Big Data in the Cloud
  47. Breaking Down the Process of Innovation: The Value of Community
  48. The Great Experiment
  49. Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Affordability, Not Cost Growth, Is The Policy Challenge
  50. Health 2.0′s Boston Big Data Code-A-Thon
  51. Will Regina Holliday Become Health Care’s Rosa Parks?
  52. The Psychology of the ObamaCare Debate
  53. Enabling Patients to Be Part of Their Care
  54. A Fork in the Road to Meaningful Use
  55. Why Do We Trust Doctors?
  56. The Testing Glut
  57. So it Turns Out that Lots and Lots of People Still Want to Be Doctors
  58. CajunCodeFest Highlights the Silicon Bayou
  59. Medical Research We Never Hear About: The Problem of Unpublished Studies

April 2012

  1. Obama Supporters Put High Court on Trial
  2. Heady Times for Health Care in the Cloud
  3. A Health Care Setup Both Sides Could Live With
  4. What if We Regulated Legal Services Like Health Care?
  5. Bringing Medicine into the Age of Computers, Finally
  6. Doctor Versus Doctor
  7. Connecting the Dots
  8. World Health Care Congress 2012 Live: Markus Fromherz, Xerox
  9. Rethinking Cancer Guidelines
  10. Who Should Apply to NY’s Newest Health Accelerator?
  11. How Obama Botched and Bungled the Health Reform Message
  12. The Medical Loss Report: Fiddling while Rome Burns
  13. World Health Care Congress 2012 Live: McKesson
  14. Dispatch from Washington
  15. Anatomy of a Walletectomy
  16. Top 10 Reasons Why Warren Buffett’s Decision to Treat Prostate Cancer Bugs Me
  17. How TEDMED ‘Groupinspire’ Could Change the World
  18. Bernie Madoff Accounting for Medicare
  19. Crossing the Line
  20. GAO and CMS Spar over Research Methods: Media (as usual) Miss the Boat
  21. 101 Ways to Engage Patients to Easily Exceed Stage 2 Meaningful Use Requirements
  22. Is Medical School Admission Squashing Creativity?
  23. Mission Critical: How Translation-Focused Disease Foundations May Save Medical Research
  24. PlaceMe: A Creepy Model For Health Information?
  25. Conference Highlights Rapid Growth of Health Impact Assessments in the United States
  26. A Response to Critics on the Founding Fathers and Health Insurance Mandates
  27. Rebooting the Medical Meeting – 9 lessons from TEDMED
  28. Meeting the Health Needs of 21st Century Veterans
  29. Sending Some Love to Our Bodies
  30. The Dead Past
  31. Paying an Arm and a Leg for a Month of Life?
  32. Heroin Vaccine Won’t Cure What Ails Addicts
  33. Washington Stuck Fighting Wrong Health-Care Battle
  34. Is Romneycare A Budget Buster?
  35. No Panacea for China’s Healthcare Reform
  36. Medicaid-driven Budget Crisis Needs a Marcus Welby/Steve Jobs Solution
  37. The Heart’s Content
  38. Consumer-Driven Medicine’s Fatal Flaw
  39. A Different Kind of Malpractice
  40. Malpractice Defense Costs Are Real
  41. TEDMED 2012 Live: Chad Harris, Xerox
  42. Introducing A World (And Healthcare) Made Simpler…by Xerox
  43. Will the ONC provide a huge stimulus to Health 2.0 startups?
  44. TEDMED Goes to Washington
  45. How I Fell In Love at TEDMED
  46. Health Care, Not Coverage
  47. TEDMED 2012: NIH Director Francis Collins and Jill Sobule Perform “Disease Don’t Care”
  48. Compliance
  49. Medicare Announces 27 ACOs. A New Species?
  50. mHealth Apps & Patient Engagement – Moving Beyond Transactions
  51. The Bar Has Gotten Higher
  52. Another Look at Health Insurance Exchanges
  53. TEDMED 2012: HBO Documentary Films “Weight of the Nation”
  54. What Keeps Me Up at Night 2012
  55. If the Supreme Court Kills ObamaCare, Should We Thank Mitt Romney?
  56. Does Anybody Want to Pay for Depression Treatment?
  57. Health 2.0’s Spring Fling: Matchpoint Boston – Final Agenda Announced
  58. What Can We Do to Simplify Healthcare?
  59. Infographic: The Future of Healthcare
  60. Health Care for 1% of the Cost
  61. About TEDMED 2012
  62. How to Get Better at Harming People Less
  63. What to Do on the Day After ObamaCare
  64. Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Work-Life Balance
  65. The Drug Shortage Wars
  66. Much Ado About Broccoli
  67. TEDxMaastricht Paul Levy: Balls and Beds; Building Champions
  68. On Being Gay In Medicine
  69. Commission Tackles Physician Payment Reform
  70. The Letterman Approach to Cost Awareness
  71. HealthTech: Glen Tullman, AllScripts
  72. Will Doctors or Patients Bend the Cost Curve?
  73. Why the Fragility of Health Outcomes Research May Be a Good Outcome for Health
  74. Health Care Law Supporters Ought to Be Sentenced to Serve as Governors
  75. Jack Cochran, The Permanente Federation
  76. The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
  77. Everyone Should Learn the Entrepreneurial Method
  78. Pay for the “A”
  79. Romney’s Second Shot at Healthcare Reform
  80. The Supreme Court on Moral Hazard
  81. Be Careful What You Wish For
  82. Health Care Reform: Good for Business
  83. Is There a Republican Alternative to ObamaCare?
  84. If the Supreme Court Rules Against the Obama Administration …
  85. No, Overturning ACA Would not Smooth the Way to Single-Payer Care
  86. The Right to Be Forgotten
  87. More PopHealth Lessons Learned
  88. Will the Quantified Self Movement Take Off in Health Care?
  89. Curing cancer: Too Important — and too Difficult — for University Researchers to Do Alone
  90. What If the Supreme Court …
  91. GOP to Uninsured: (Feel Free to) Drop Dead

March 2012

  1. Is Health Insurance Too Cheap?
  2. HealthTech: Peter Kinhan, GE Healthcare
  3. What If We End Up with a Health Care System Like the One they Have In New Jersey?
  4. Behind the New Autism Numbers
  5. Digital Diet
  6. Three Strategies for the Health Care Industry While Reform’s in Limbo
  7. The Slippery Slope
  8. Friday Funny: Health care meets Jerry Springer – (in Pittsburgh!)
  9. Scrapping Obamacare Would Be an Rx for Chaos
  10. The Long Road From March to November
  11. How Did the Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Ever Make it to the U.S. Supreme Court?
  12. Pharma, Social Media & Common Sense
  13. Better Health Care at Half the Cost
  14. If the Supreme Court Overturns the Individual Mandate
  15. Health Insurance Exchanges: What to Do During the Waiting Game?
  16. That’s Not a Limiting Principle, Noah Feldman Edition
  17. Justice Kennedy Swings Again
  18. Can’t We Do Better Than State-Sponsored Broccoli?
  19. The Individual Mandate and Severability
  20. The THCB Reader — the SCOTUS Oral Arguments
  21. Why Healthcare Is Different (No, Really)
  22. The Great Game
  23. Health Care Jujitsu
  24. Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data
  25. Health Reform: Still the Best-Covered Social Policy Story, Ever.
  26. IPAB and Medicare Costs Are Bad Medicine
  27. Will Obamacare Drive Out Employer-Sponsored Insurance?
  28. Simple, But wrong, Approach on Readmissions
  29. The Risk of Avoiding Social Media: Others Get to Say Who You Are
  30. The Case For Rational Rationing
  31. The Broccoli Mandate
  32. What the Supreme Court (and You) Won’t Hear About Health Reform
  33. New Johnson & Johnson CEO Discusses Medical Device Futures at Stanford Event
  34. The Strange Tale of NextGen and NextGen
  35. What About the Employer Mandate? Companies Watching Supreme Court Case
  36. The Five Tax Hikes in Obamacare that Most Hurt Seniors
  37. The Law Always Lags Technology: Implications for Digital Medicine
  38. Beyond Coding: Will the ICD-10 Deadline Delay Help or Harm?
  39. Why Are Primary Docs Thinking About Leaving Medicine?
  40. Healthy Competition
  41. In Defense of Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan
  42. The Return of the Ryan Plan
  43. Rejecting Affordable Care Act Is Rejecting Constitution
  44. Government Cannot Regulate Beliefs
  45. Why Should We Cover People Who Don’t Take Care of Themselves?
  46. Health Insurance Exchange Regulations and the Health Reform Challenge
  47. What Republicans Argue When They Have Nothing Left to Say
  48. Good Things in Medicine: A Shocking Development
  49. Healthtech: GE Healthcare CMIO Mark Dente
  50. What Is Causing Drug Shortages?
  51. Is mHealth Just Another Gimmick?
  52. The Patient Will Rate You Now
  53. How We Can Keep from Going Broke
  54. If Mandate Is Defeated, Obama Will Need Help From Allies to Salvage Health Law
  55. AARP Readying Armies for Medicare Battle
  56. Why States Should Move Forward with Health Insurance Exchanges
  57. Learning from Massachusetts’ Health Care Experiment
  58. A Safety Checklist for Patients
  59. THCB Calendar
  60. The first Sex::Tech hackathon
  61. Defending the Affordable Care Act
  62. Don’t Try This at Home: The Mathematics of HIV Testing in Low-Risk Populations
  63. Feds’ Power Grab Must Be Stopped
  64. Todd Park Was Right…Now What?
  65. Medicaid Providers Could Lose Billions if Supreme Court Tosses Health Overhaul Law
  66. Gingrich Adviser Urges States to Implement ObamaCare
  67. The Nonprofit Question
  68. Will Payers be the Business Intelligence Services of the Future?
  69. The Effect Of Physicians’ Electronic Access To Tests: A Response To Farzad Mostashari
  70. Engaging “The” Patient
  71. The Hardest Job To Fill (And Keep) In Washington: CMS Chief
  72. Health Datapalooza 2012: Throw Your Hat Into the Ring!
  73. Help Shape the Future of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
  74. Patient Rights
  75. How Many More Dead Patients?
  76. It’s NOT the Economy, Stupid!
  77. Pharma: Beatings to Continue Until Morale Improves?
  78. What Is the Cause of Excess Costs in US Health Care? Take Two
  79. Stop Lying to Your Doctor
  80. Four Healthcare Trends Hospital Executives Cannot Ignore
  81. Research Shows … the Obvious
  82. How Much Will a Data Breach Cost You?
  83. Wrong Rx for the FDA
  84. Autofill Gone Wild
  85. The Power Couple: Common in Medicine, Rare in Business??
  86. The Bottom Line
  87. Could Social Impact Bonds Help Restore Public Budgets?
  88. Is My Cancer in the Wrong Body Part?
  89. Profits Are Up at Massachusetts Health Plans – Should You Be Upset???
  90. Buckle Up
  91. If You Feel OK, Maybe You Are OK
  92. What I Learned At Haas Business School’s Health Care Conference
  93. Not Such a Bitter Pill
  94. XEROX HIMSS12 Post-Game Show
  95. I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly.

February 2012

  1. PCORI Paddles the Potomac
  2. Can Health Care Be Bought and Sold on eBay?
  3. Register for the February 29th Health 2.0 Show
  4. The Status of Health Insurance Exchanges
  5. The Cost of Coercion
  6. Contraception Conundrum
  7. Welcome to the DMV. Your Clerk Will Be With You Shortly.
  8. KP CEO George Halvorson on His Organization’s Mobile App Strategy
  9. First Amendment Doesn’t Apply to Junk Food Marketing
  10. The Fall of a Pink Giant?
  11. It’s We, the Public, Who Are Flip Floppers
  12. Better Ways of Thinking About the Future
  13. Why Can’t the ICU Be More Like a Cockpit?
  14. Is a New Federal Patient Safety Effort Doing Enough to Curb Medical Errors?
  15. Can We Really Expect Innovation from an Industry Stuck on White Male Former Sales Reps? Perhaps.
  16. Live from HIMSS12: Justin Lanning, Xerox
  17. Who Is Biz Stone and What Is Twitter?
  18. EMR Uptake Encouraging but Interoperability Needs Work
  19. So Much For “Everyone Can Get Care In An Emergency Room”
  20. Live from HIMSS12: ICD-10, Meaningful Use & Social Media
  21. Seizing the Opportunity in the ICD-10 Delay
  22. Eric Topol: Too Clever by Three-Quarters
  23. The Melody Of Quality Measures: Harmonize And Standardize
  24. Is North Carolina Medicaid the Healthcare Industry’s Solyndra?
  25. A New Grassroots Movement By Doctors
  26. Politics in the Exam Room
  27. Forecast and Ramifications of Payers in the HIE Market
  28. Vegas, Baby, Vegas
  29. Dial Back The Hype
  30. If HHS Delays ICD-10 Long Enough, Could the U.S. Adopt ICD-11 Instead?
  31. Anytime We Consider Anything Less than Everything, We Are Missing Something.
  32. The Trouble with Treating Patients as Consumers
  33. Can the Press Save DSM 5 from Itself?
  34. Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
  35. Paving the Regulatory Road
  36. Using Twitter to Deliver Health Improvement Messages
  37. Does ICD-10 Delay Create an Easy Opportunity for Coding Improvement?
  38. The Creative Destruction of the News Business and Other Weird Stories
  39. The Unfortunate Side Effect of Death
  40. Should Your Doctor Talk with You About the Cost of Your Pills?
  41. Oops! ICD-10 To Be Delayed Indefinitely. Never Mind!
  42. CareZone –1999 PHR Redux?
  43. Medicine’s Tech Future: the View from the Valley
  44. The Perfect EHR
  45. Making Sense of the Debate Over Patient Access to Medical Information
  46. Price Variation and Confidentiality in the Market for Medical Devices
  47. Privacy in the Age of Big Data
  48. Minders of the Gap
  49. Startups: The Other Health Technology Revolution
  50. No Free Lunch. No Free Contraception.
  51. The Audacity of Dupe
  52. Context Is Everything
  53. Will People Eat Less If You Ask Them to?
  54. Obama’s Broken Promises
  55. Dismantling the Affordable Care Act
  56. The Emperor’s New Social Network
  57. Getting Better
  58. The Political Economy of Health Information Technology
  59. Health Hack the Planet: Japan’s Upcoming Code-a-thon
  60. Should Sugar Be Controlled Like Alcohol? Part II
  61. A Better Way to Avoid Pregnancy
  62. The Perfect Storm For Innovation
  63. The Journey We Take Alone.
  64. Does Obamacare Limit Profits for Health Insurance Companies in Your State?
  65. Do Something Really Innovative In Health: Crowdsource Problems, Not (Just) Solutions
  66. Nimble Medicine
  67. Genetic Testing and Insurance: One Datum
  68. Thinking About the Bipartisan Policy Center Report on Health IT
  69. Care Innovations Summit
  70. It Takes a CEO to Save the U.S. Health-Care System
  71. The Republican Myth of Obama’s Entitlement Society
  72. The Latest Big Pharma Scandal
  73. Congressional Research Service: Courts Could Force HHS to Implement CLASS Act, Despite Its Insolvency
  74. Why Hospitals Continue to Fail in ‘Connecting the Dots’ With Their Data, and What They Can Do to Change
  75. Why the Pilot Programs Failed

January 2012

  1. Nursing Shortage: Is it a Case of Crying Wolf?
  2. The Massachusetts Miracle: Romney’s Health Care Reform Plan Works
  3. The X Questions
  4. What Mitt Romney Should Say
  5. One Doctor’s View of Personal Science: You Won’t Learn Anything.
  6. Repealed, Replaced and Expanded
  7. Treating Heart Failure on a $100 Budget
  8. The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma
  9. Medical Records Supporting San Francisco’s Universal Care Add Millions to Official Cost
  10. Now you have healthcare data. So where does it go?
  11. Demonizing The Demonization Of Physician-Industry Relationships
  12. What I Learned from Listening to a Patient
  13. How Doctors Are Trapped, Part II
  14. Listen to What Innovators Don’t Talk About
  15. Our Cancer Journey – Week 6
  16. DSM-5: You’re Still Autistic. You’re Just Weird. You We’re Not Sure About. Call Us Tomorrow.
  17. Care Innovations Summit Live Blog
  18. Occupational Health In the Electronic Age
  19. The Rise of the Programmable Self
  20. Health 2.0 News
  21. What Does Failure Mean?
  22. A Promise Made to Be Broken
  23. Will Consumers Pay for e-Health?
  24. Newt Gingrich Reveals His Inner Democrat
  25. Stopping an Epidemic By Redefining It
  26. (Almost) Nothing Works
  27. Why Mint.com for Health Is a Terrible Idea
  28. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Catching the Attention of Doctors
  29. Will the Feds Be Ready?
  30. Reports of the Death of Disease Management Are Greatly Exaggerated
  31. Weighing in on Paula Deen
  32. Reduce the Budget Deficit Through Innovation
  33. Another nail in the DM coffin?
  34. Doctors Going Broke
  35. Med School: It’s Not What You Think It Is
  36. Only Handle It Once (OHIO)
  37. Restoring Office Workflows to the EMR: Or How I Restored Patient Face Time and Got Back the Joy in Medicine
  38. Health 2.0 News
  39. Should Your Doctor Be Thinking About Society’s Healthcare Costs?
  40. The Awkward World of Private Insurance in the UK
  41. A Win-Win: Job Creation Will Grow the Economy and Improve Health
  42. Why This Well-Known Biotech Firm Deploys 17,000 iPads and iPhones
  43. Can You Really Fire Your Insurance, Mitt?
  44. Sizing Up the Obama Administration’s Defense of the Health Reform Law
  45. Tonsillectomy Confidential
  46. Competition in Health Insurance: What Should Government Do?
  47. Two Patients Coded
  48. Meet the iPAB!
  49. A Constitutional Right not to Be Bankrupted
  50. Bring Back the Public Option
  51. Patients Rating Doctors: Let’s Pay Popular People More!
  52. Health Care Social Media – How to Engage Online Without Getting into Trouble (Part II)
  53. How Healthcare’s Embrace of Mobility has Turned Dangerous
  54. CES Mania Over at Health 2.0 News
  55. An Interview with Blueprint Health
  56. Work Induced Attention Deficit Disorder
  57. The National Nurse
  58. What Missy Did Next
  59. 2012: A Year of Huge Uncertainty in Health Care Policy
  60. Why Didn’t ICD-10 Implementation Bring Down Europe’s Health System?
  61. Recession Drives Lower Health Spending
  62. What Doctors Can Learn from the New England Patriots
  63. The Do’s and Don’ts of Hospital Health IT
  64. The Essential Bargain
  65. What if They Had Had to Pay?
  66. Progress made by ONC (Really!)
  67. Is Epidemiology Worthless?
  68. The Earbud Epidemic
  69. Harvard Business School Future of Healthcare Conference
  70. Winners Announced in “Using Public Data for Cancer Prevention and Control” Innovation Challenge
  71. New Year’s Predictions: More Mandates (Maybe), House Rules at CMS
  72. The Decline of the Public Good
  73. The slow integration of community into health care
  74. Teaching Residents about Costs: The Price is Right
  75. Health Care Social Media – How to Engage Online Without Getting into Trouble
  76. Usual, customary and made up
  77. The Crash of Air France 447: Lessons for Patient Safety
  78. Matthew’s end of year letter
  79. Which Health Incubator Should You Apply To?
  80. How Did My 2011 Predictions Turn Out?
  81. Why Getting to a Digital Health Care System Is Going to Be Harder Than We Thought Ten Years Ago

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