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December 2013

1. 31 DecHow Can Patients on Medicaid Possibly Be Worse Off than Those Who Don’t Have Insurance?
2. 31 DecThe Hospice Will See You Now
3. 30 DecHealthcare.Gov’s Numbers at the Deadline
4. 30 DecWhy You Shouldn’t Succumb to Defeatism About the Affordable Care Act
5. 27 DecWhy the January 1st Deadline Matters
6. 26 DecThey’re Not Deadlines. They’re Opportunities …
7. 24 DecThe Doctor Who Played With Fire
8. 23 DecWhat Exactly Are Insurers Canceling? And Why?
9. 23 DecCaveat User: Understanding the Health Risks of Mobile Devices
10. 22 DecN = 1 My Experience with the New Health Care System
11. 20 DecThe Obamacare Slippery Slope–What’s Your “Hardship?”
12. 20 DecHealthcare Innovation Is Not Just About Cutting Costs
13. 19 DecSense and Sensibility on Hypertension
14. 18 DecWhat We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
15. 18 DecA Shout Out For Our Sponsors
16. 17 DecDoes ICD-10 Pilot Forecast a Perfect Storm for Healthcare?
17. 17 DecRegistration is Open for HxRefactored 2014!
18. 17 DecOvercharged 38000% !!!
19. 17 DecWe Should Be Getting More Data On The Affordable Care Act
20. 16 DecWe Need a New Word. We Can Do Better Than “Concierge Medicine” Can’t We?
21. 16 DecThe Doc Fix Is Real
22. 15 DecThe Republican Dilemma
23. 15 DecRe-Engineering Health Care For Safety and Cost Savings
24. 13 DecData Points: More Backroom Chaos and Low State Numbers
25. 13 DecIt’s Doctors versus Hospitals Over Meaningful Use
26. 12 DecNovember’s Numbers: Sorry. They’re Not Good. They’re Bad. Awful, Actually ..
27. 12 DecA Small Paper Problem: The Health Exchanges Face An Avalanche of Paper Applications
28. 11 DecThe New Tools: What 21st Century Education Can Teach Us
29. 10 DecResisting the Rush to Judgement On the Affordable Care Act
30. 9 DecProbably Illegal and Unquestionably Stupid: Covered California’s Release of Personal Health Information.
31. 9 DecMandela’s AIDS Legacy of Silence and Courage
32. 9 DecHealthLoop: A Health 2.0 Story
33. 9 DecPower Up: What’s Next in Technology for Youth and Wellness
34. 9 DecBetterFit Technologies Joins Forces with Ginger.io
35. 9 DecA Message To My Patients
36. 8 DecThe Really Bad Math Behind the Social Security Cuts
37. 6 DecIs Obamacare Responsible For the Recent Slowdown in Health Care Costs?
38. 6 DecWhy “Liking” Your Plan Is Not the Point
39. 6 DecA Global Movement Prepping For Lift Off
40. 5 DecInnovation In Care Transitions: Who’s Buying?
41. 5 DecTrue or False? I’m Better Off Waiting
42. 5 DecEight Bright New Ideas From Behavioral Economists That Could Help You Get Healthy.
43. 5 DecHealthism: The New Puritanism
44. 5 DecWhat Public Insurance Exchanges Will Look Like 5 Years From Now
45. 4 DecThe T-Rex Takes on Healthcare Reform
46. 3 DecNot Your Grandpa’s Health IT: Highlights from Health 2.0’s 7th Annual Fall Conference
47. 3 DecHealthcare.gov Is Working. But Is It Working Well Enough to Withstand the Enrollment Surge?
48. 2 DecIn Which Your Author Does the Math
49. 2 DecHow One Bad Thanksgiving Shaped Amazon
50. 2 DecAre Smokers Really the ACA’s Biggest Losers?
51. 2 DecI Would Rather Die at Home
52. 1 DecThe Presidential Healthcare Curse – Why Do They Even Try?

November 2013

1. 30 NovObamacare Has Failed My Family
2. 30 NovThe Two Million Scenario: What if the Affordable Care Act enrolls a lot fewer people in the Exchanges than predicted?
3. 30 NovThe Month of Anti-Deadlines
4. 30 NovThe Purpose-Driven Doctor
5. 29 NovStopping 23andMe Will Only Delay the Revolution Medicine Needs
6. 27 NovWe Love to Talk About Our Lives. What About Our Deaths?
7. 27 NovCome to the Health 2.0 session at the 2013 mHealth Summit
8. 27 NovHealthcare.Gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality
9. 26 NovThe FDA Ban on Trans Fat Should Be Just the Beginning
10. 26 Nov40M? 30M? 15M? How Many Uninsured Americans Are There? We’re About To Officially Find Out.
11. 26 Nov#Gchat Medicine?
12. 25 NovTrying To Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
13. 25 NovHow Will My Subsidy Be Paid?
14. 25 NovIs Opposition to Obamacare Racist?
15. 24 NovA Tale of Two IT Procurements
16. 24 NovNew California Numbers Show Disproportionate Enrollment by Those Over 55
17. 24 NovWhat Is the Difference Between On-Exchange and Off-Exchange Policies?
18. 23 NovRadiologist: Thou Shalt Disclaim by Law
19. 22 NovThe Real Reason You May Not Be Able to Keep Your Doctor Under the New Healthcare Law
20. 22 NovThe ePrognosis App: How Calculating Life Expectancy Can Influence Healthcare Decision-Making
21. 22 NovAnother Law Raising the Cost of Health Care
22. 21 NovThe Next Shoe to Drop: Small Group Health Insurance Cancellations
23. 21 NovThe Clock Is Ticking
24. 20 NovFinding the Value in Value-Based Purchasing
25. 20 NovWhose Data Is It Anyway?
26. 20 NovFine Tuning the National Health IT Timeline
27. 19 NovBetter But Nowhere Near Good Enough
28. 19 NovThe Cholesterol Gulag
29. 19 NovThink You’re Young and Invincible? You’re Young, Yes. Invincible? Maybe Not.
30. 18 NovAnd Yes, The Affordable Care Act Really Does Make Care More Affordable. Here’s One Example ….
31. 18 NovThe Real Fix? The Exchanges Aren’t Working. Here’s Why …
32. 18 NovAddressing Unapproved Meningitis Vaccine at Princeton
33. 18 NovNew York State Plans Say “No Thanks” to Obama Fix
34. 18 NovWorldone+Sermo’s next steps
35. 17 NovWhy Can’t I Change My Plan?
36. 17 NovD.C. Insurance Commissioner Fired One Day After Saying No to Obama’s Fix
37. 17 NovWhat I Expect From the Medicare Program
38. 17 NovFive Questions Journalists Should Be Asking About the Affordable Care Act
39. 15 NovWhat Could Have Been and What Still Has To Happen
40. 15 NovWhat the “Doc Fix” Should Tell You About the “Grandfather Fix”
41. 15 NovThe Statinization of America
42. 14 NovYou Can Keep Your Plan. Maybe.*
43. 14 NovMy Wife Has Cancer. I Need to Know: Will She Have Insurance On January 1st?
44. 13 NovCould Med Students Help Win the Enrollment War?
45. 12 NovWait. So How Do I Find out if a Specialist Is Covered by My Plan?
46. 11 NovWhen Is Closing an Ongoing Clinical Trial a Betrayal of Participants?
47. 11 NovNew York’s Digital Health Revolution
48. 11 NovMental Health Parity and the Affordable Care Act
49. 10 NovSorry. If You Want The ACA to Work, You’re Going to Have To Actually Make People Buy Insurance
50. 10 NovA Plan B For Healthcare.gov?
51. 10 NovThe Art Of The Apology: What Not To Say When Things Go Wrong
52. 10 NovInformation Asymmetry – The Politics of Health IT Policy
53. 8 NovUCSF’s Wikipedia Experiment: Should Med Students Get Credit For Curating Medical Information Online?
54. 8 NovHospital Exec Pay: If P4P is Good Enough for Doctors, Why Not the CEO?
55. 7 NovHyperdiagnosis: The Wellness Industry Doubles Down on Overdiagnosis
56. 7 NovPosts of Note: The 2013 Harvard Business School Cyberposium
57. 6 NovHow Many Patients Did We Hurt Last Month? Learning (But Not Too Much) From The Best Hospitals
58. 6 NovLetting the Data Speak: Estimating County Health Care Costs In Washington State
59. 6 NovQuality Measurement 2.0
60. 6 NovWorld of Health 2.0 – Interview with Matthew Holt, Co-Chairman
61. 6 NovHealth 2.0 Tools for the Elderly at Health 2.0 Europe
62. 5 NovThe Latest Mystery: What Is Happening to All Those Paper Applications?
63. 4 NovNovember is the New October
64. 4 NovWhile Healthcare.gov Struggles, A Different Story Plays Out On The Private Exchanges
65. 3 NovMaking Hospital Prices Matter
66. 2 NovThe ACA May Kill Me
67. 2 NovI’m Male. A Non-Smoker. And in My Fifties. Can Somebody Please Explain Why I Have to Pay for Maternity Coverage?
68. 1 NovI Have No Kids. Why Do I Have to Pay More For My Coverage Than People With Children? This Seems Really Unfair!
69. 1 NovCan Everybody Please Just Calm Down?

October 2013

1. 31 OctWhy the Medicare Part D-Obamacare Comparison Is Making Less and Less Sense
2. 30 OctWill You Be Able to Keep Your Plan? The Economics Behind the Obama Administration’s Latest Problem
3. 30 OctWhy Isn’t There a Healthcare.gov App?
4. 30 OctQuestions for Secretary Sebelius
5. 29 OctMr. President, I Like My Health Insurance. I’d Like to Keep It. Can You Please Help Me Out?
6. 28 OctI Give Up
7. 28 OctSo, You Need Knee Replacement Surgery…
8. 28 OctThe Opening Act
9. 28 OctShould Sebelius Resign?
10. 28 OctThrough Google Glass, Maybe
11. 27 OctGOP’s Oddest Obamacare Rejection: “Patient-Centered Healthcare”
12. 26 OctMaking Health Addictive
13. 25 OctWhat’s Next for Healthcare.gov?
14. 25 Oct* Patients Not Included
15. 25 OctSorry. Saturated Fat is Bad For You. Or More Accurately — It’s Complicated. Let’s Review the Evidence…
16. 25 OctThe 834 Problem
17. 24 OctRound One of the Obamacare Exchange Hearings. Angry Republicans 6 Contractors 0.
18. 24 OctThe Sequestration Cuts That Are Harming Health Care
19. 24 OctCIGNA and Me
20. 24 OctIs Healthcare.gov the Future? I Ask a Futurist
21. 24 Oct.Gov Prices May Not Add Up
22. 24 OctTHCB Calendar: Graph Analysis and Big Data Principles
23. 24 OctHealth 2.0 Europe: Creation Healthcare’s Daniel Ghinn
24. 24 OctHealth 2.0 Europe: Med Digital’s Felix Jackson
25. 23 OctIn Medicine, More May Not Be Better
26. 23 OctDarwinian Health IT: Only Well-Designed EHRs Will Survive
27. 22 OctThe Doctor Returns Bearing Data.
28. 22 OctWhy Calling it a “Tech Surge” May Not Be the Best Idea in History
29. 21 OctHealthcare.com Would Have Worked Better
30. 20 OctIf Gun Violence is a Health Epidemic, Can We Quarantine It Like a Virus?
31. 19 OctShould the Obamacare Exchanges Be Shut Down?
32. 19 OctThe Great Coronary Angioplasty Debate: Giving Patients the Right to Speak
33. 18 OctState Surveillance Endangers the Affordable Care Act: A Case Study
34. 18 OctWhy PCORI Should Be Very Wary of Studying Medical Devices
35. 18 OctA Pragmatic Fix for Healthcare.gov & the HIXs
36. 17 OctMy Personal Affordable Care Act–A Manifesto
37. 17 OctThe Federal Shutdown is Over. The Health Care Fight is Just Getting Started. Here’s What May Happen Next…
38. 16 OctKnocking on Health 2.0’s Door
39. 16 OctTHCB Calendar: Graph Analysis and Big Data Principles
40. 16 OctChaos and Order: An Update From Patient Privacy Rights
41. 16 OctHealth 2.0 Co-Founders Address How to Adapt to a New World of Health Care and the Problems it Encompasses
42. 16 OctRedefining Health Care with Health 2.0 Bottom-Up Thinking
43. 14 OctHow Naïve Can Democrats Get?
44. 14 OctShould We Sacrifice Medicine’s Sacred COW?
45. 14 OctWhen Talking About the Exchanges, It’s Probably a Good Idea to Look Beyond Opening Week Returns
46. 13 OctOf Course, Then There’s The Fact That You May Be Better Off Waiting To Buy Coverage, Anyway …
47. 13 OctThe End of the Era of Coronary Angioplasty
48. 12 OctPaying for the ACA: A Field Guide
49. 12 OctCommentology: What Your Employer Is Secretly Thinking As Obamacare Goes Live Part II
50. 12 OctConfessions of a Self-Tracker
51. 11 OctTarget Demographic
52. 11 OctHealthcare’s Tech Disconnect: Why Aren’t We Building the Products Patients Really Need?
53. 10 OctMy Return to American Health Care
54. 10 OctWhat Covered California Got Right–And What Other States Did Better
55. 10 OctAustralia’s Prisoners’ Dilemma: Incentives Matter in Health Care
56. 9 OctThe Government Shutdown: Why the Pipeline Matters
57. 9 OctA Little Advice for the Next National Coordinator
58. 8 OctWhy Badly Designed iPad Apps Put Patients at Risk: EMS and ePCR
59. 8 OctStill Demanding Medical Excellence
60. 8 OctHealthcareDIY: An Old Idea Made New
61. 7 OctOut of Chaos, A New Beginning
62. 6 OctHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obamacare
63. 6 OctHow Identity Verification Caused Chaos on the State and Federal Exchanges
64. 5 OctThe Next Great Cure? A Cancer Doctor Explains Why He Supports the Affordable Care Act
65. 4 OctOne Man’s Quest to Sign Up for Obamacare
66. 4 OctWith CDC Seasonal Flu Data Unavailable, An Electronic Medical Record Offers a Glimpse of Early Activity Levels
67. 3 OctAffording the Affordable Care Act
68. 2 OctReports Suggest Exchange Numbers Are Very Low
69. 2 OctHow the Federal Government Shutdown Is Hurting Healthcare: Agency by Agency
70. 2 OctDescent Into Madness: An Account of One Man’s Visit to Healthcare.gov October 1st
71. 2 OctWho Knew That Blood, Sweat and Tears Could Start a Health Care Revolution?
72. 2 OctMy Worst Night as a Doctor
73. 2 OctI Oppose Obamacare. I Support the Affordable Care Act.
74. 1 OctWashington In Crisis: ONC Announces That It Will Not Tweet Or Respond to Tweets During Shutdown
75. 1 OctHealthTech Challenge Aimed at Reducing Readmissions
76. 1 OctAnnouncing the Winners and Finalists of the RWJF Hospital Price Transparency Challenge!
77. 1 OctWhy Explaining the Affordable Care Act Turns Out To Be A Lot Harder Than We Thought It Would Be.

September 2013

1. 29 SepWill Obamacare Survive? Nine Key Questions
2. 27 SepAfter the Navy Yard Shooting: A Call to Action On Mental Illness
3. 27 SepWill ACA Implementation Lead to a Spike in Demand for Care?
4. 26 SepWhat Kind of Ancestor Will You Be?
5. 26 SepFive Must-See New Technologies for Hospitals at Health 2.0
6. 26 SepHow to Cut Medicare Spending: Attack Large Claims!!
7. 26 SepDisruptive Innovation and the Affordable Care Act
8. 26 SepExponential Health Technology Bringing Personal “Check Engine Lights”
9. 25 SepWhat Your Employer Is Secretly Thinking As Obamacare Goes Live
10. 25 SepMoving Beyond the Quantified Self
11. 25 SepDid We Get It Right? A Behind the Scenes Look at California’s Healthcare Strategy
12. 25 SepWhat the SNAP Cuts Actually Mean
13. 25 SepWho Will Solve Healthcare For Our Parents And Grandparents? Probably Not Google.
14. 24 SepNew Interventions Needed to Halt the Growth of “Superbugs”
15. 24 SepSeriously? Are We Really Going to Re-Legislate Healthcare Reform?
16. 24 SepRepealing Laws By Defunding Them
17. 24 SepCommentology: Where Do Apps Go When They Die?
18. 24 SepMoving Beyond the Sick Care Model
19. 24 SepTop Twelve Reasons to be at Health 2.0 Next Week
20. 24 SepState Insurance Exchange Blind Spots: Unknown Risks and Unintended Consequences
21. 23 SepThe Summer of Wellness’s Discontent
22. 22 SepWhy Can’t We Do Better Than This?
23. 22 SepA Physician Faces Disciplinary Action For Seeing Patients on Skype — Early Guidelines For Patient Video Visits
24. 21 SepRate Shock vs. Benefit Shock
25. 21 SepCleveland Clinic Trial of Breast Cancer Vaccine Moves Forward
26. 20 SepFive Reasons the Federal Insurance Exchange Glitch May Not Be That Big Of A Deal. Knock On Wood.
27. 19 SepA Troubling Strategy at Health IT Week
28. 19 SepFinally Some Good News on Readmission Rates
29. 18 SepA Dozen Hospitals Are Laying Off Staff and Blaming Obamacare. Don’t Believe Them.
30. 18 SepInside the NHS Health IT Program
31. 18 SepNot Quite Ready For Prime Time: The State Health Insurance Marketplaces and Google
32. 17 SepUnderstanding the Hospital Consolidation Numbers: The Centrality of Data Quality
33. 15 SepGive Us Our Damn Lab Results!!
34. 15 SepCould Doctors Have Something to Learn From Designers?
35. 15 SepCan Entrepreneurs “Cure” Health Care With Technology?
36. 15 SepWhat to Do About Futile Critical Care
37. 14 SepCan Social Media Really Influence Health Behaviors? A Small Clinical Trial Argues The Answer Is Yes.
38. 12 SepPatient Engagement: On Metrics and Meaning
39. 12 SepWhen Your Doctor Dies
40. 12 SepDeath of a Porn Star
41. 11 SepReforming Health Reform
42. 10 SepHealth Exchange Confusion: Why We’re Getting the IBM Story Wrong
43. 10 SepObesity and the AMA, Part Two
44. 10 SepRegulating Health IT: When, Who, and How?
45. 9 SepThe Not Normals Break Through — An Update From the Khan Academy
46. 9 SepThe Shocking Truth About Medication Errors
47. 8 SepThe 9th Grade Class Does Obamacare Math (Can Journalists Do the Same?)
48. 7 SepESCAPE FIRE: Changing Medical Education
49. 7 SepA New Way to Sue Health Care Professionals Using HIPAA?
50. 6 SepWhen Foundation-Approved Apps Founder
51. 5 SepThe Exchanges Won’t Be Ready in Time. And it Probably Won’t Matter.
52. 5 SepWhat Keeps Me Up At Night – 2013 Edition
53. 4 SepWhy Nurse Practitioners Will Not Solve the Primary Care Crisis
54. 4 SepA Powerful Idea From the Nuclear Industry
55. 3 SepMorbus Propedeuticus
56. 1 SepPathologizing the Human Condition

August 2013

1. 31 AugWhen Opting Out Is Not an Option
2. 30 AugProstate Cancer: Not a Good Week
3. 29 AugData Points: Why Delay of the Employer Mandate May Not Actually Mean That Much
4. 29 AugWhat I Need
5. 29 AugIs Big Sugar the Next Liability Target?
6. 28 AugBackdated
7. 27 AugThe Return of the Greater Common Good
8. 27 AugThe Most Effective Obamacare Delay is Defunding
9. 27 AugAn “F” for Quality
10. 27 AugEveryMove Launches the EveryMove 100 Health Insurance Index
11. 26 AugShould a Doctor Prescribe Drugs that are Unapproved by the FDA?
12. 26 AugWhy Doctors Should Stay Out of the Business of Building EHRs
13. 26 AugCaregiver Corps: Tapping a Nation of Caring People
14. 25 AugCreating Conditions for Humanity in Hospitals
15. 24 AugThe Perils of Multitasking
16. 24 AugThe Biggest Urban Legend in Health Economics–and How It Drives Up Our Spending
17. 24 AugAn Open Letter to the President: The Danger in Promoting the “Digitization of Disaster Recovery”
18. 22 AugReplacing Farzad
19. 22 AugIn a Quiet Move, Washington Replaces the Head of AHRQ. Is It Too Late to Save the Agency?
20. 22 AugCould Mobile Health Become Addictive?
21. 21 AugIn the Eleventh Hour
22. 20 AugWhat the Death of American Medical News Says About the Future of American Medicine
23. 20 AugAdventures in Medicine
24. 20 AugWhat’s Science Got to Do With It?
25. 19 AugDiagnosing Concussions and Assessing Balance- On Your iPhone
26. 19 AugTalmudic-Like Studies of Republican Health Reform Ideas
27. 18 AugInformed Refusal
28. 17 Aug#MomInHospital
29. 16 AugPreparing for 2014: Questions for Obamacare’s Opponents
30. 16 AugPioneer ACO’s Disappointing First Year
31. 16 AugHealth 2.0 Introduces Big Players in Big Data
32. 15 AugThe Federal Health Data Services Hub Hubbub
33. 15 AugThe Good Doctor Calls For Backup
34. 15 AugHealth 2.0 and Enspektos Market Intelligence Webinar TODAY
35. 14 AugAverage Care at a Typical Hospital on an Ordinary Sunday in August
36. 14 AugNurses Will Play a Vital Role in the Enactment of the Affordable Care Act
37. 14 AugThe Obamacare Numbers: Difficult to Measure and Subject to Spin
38. 13 AugThe Other Penn State Scandal
39. 13 AugA Modest Proposal: Replace the Med School Interview With fMRI
40. 12 AugWhy Congress Should Pass the Accuracy in Medicare Physician Payment Act
41. 12 AugEnabling the Health Care Locavore
42. 11 AugShould Doctors Keep Patients’ HIV Status a Secret?
43. 11 AugWhat the Recent Data Breach Says About the State of Health IT
44. 11 AugHealth 2.0 EDU: The Shifting Value of Health Care with Kim MacPherson
45. 9 AugBeyond the Affordable Care Act: A Framework for Getting Health Care Reform Right
46. 9 AugA Second Look at the Link Between Obesity and Mortality
47. 8 AugThe Strange Case of the C. Everett Koop National Health Award
48. 7 AugAligning Physician Incentives Doesn’t Do It
49. 7 AugWhy Reports of the Death of Physician Participation in Medicare May Be Greatly Exaggerated
50. 7 AugCriminal Charges for Providers Won’t Fix the NHS, Dr. Berwick
51. 6 AugNokia Sensing XCHALLENGE Finalists at Health 2.0
52. 6 AugDevelop a Strategic Initiative with UC Berkeley’s Steven Weber and Health 2.0 EDU
53. 5 AugA Health Plan for Rugged Individualists
54. 4 AugThe Rise of the Hospitalists
55. 4 AugThe Great American Health Care Divide
56. 3 AugUC Berkeley’s Jaspal Sandhu Personalizes Health Care with Health 2.0 EDU
57. 2 AugIs Health Industry Price Inflation Really At a Historical Low?
58. 2 AugMy Family’s Obamacare
59. 1 AugManaging Physician Skepticism About the Affordable Care Act
60. 1 AugJennifer Chatman Helps Welcome Health 2.0 EDU to UC Berkeley

July 2013

1. 31 JulThe Critics Are Wrong About IPAB
2. 30 JulHealth 2.0 2013 Fall Conference
3. 30 JulWhy a New Healthcare Technology Designed to Cut Costs and Increase Efficiency Probably Won’t Put Anesthesiologists Out of Work
4. 30 JulStop the Presses: A Disease Management Program Worked
5. 30 JulMedicare’s Observation Status-and Why Attempts to Make Things Better May Make Them Worse
6. 30 JulLet’s Have Dinner and Talk About Death: Indiegogo Campaign
7. 30 JulTHCB Calendar: What Change on Capitol Hill Means for Big Data and Health Care
8. 28 JulGitHub: How an Open Source Programming Tool With a Funny Name Could Help Revolutionize Medical Research
9. 26 JulProviders Are Held Accountable. Why Aren’t Technology Vendors?
10. 26 JulA Window of Hope for Fixing Medicare
11. 25 JulWhat’s So Wrong About Sexting, Anyway?
12. 24 JulMaking Sense of Geographic Variations in Health Care: the New IOM Report
13. 24 JulA Modest Proposal for Dealing with Cheating in Professional Sports: Fuhgettaboutit.
14. 24 JulGuidelines vs. Personalized Medicine: the Battle for the Future of Healthcare
15. 23 JulCan Medicare Reach Its 65th Birthday?
16. 23 JulThe Merit of Merit Affidavits in Malpractice Lawsuits
17. 22 JulPhysician Collaboration Isn’t Collusion to Increase Costs
18. 22 JulThe Affordable Care Act Will Fail Without Patient Engagement
19. 22 JulThe Office Visit Revisited
20. 19 JulBlood Pressure Monitoring, Telemedicine, and Automated Hovering: A Future Model for Disease Management?
21. 19 JulWhat Happens In New York Stays In New York
22. 19 JulThe EHR Debate: Fighting the Last War?
23. 18 JulMore Work Is Needed on the Safety and Efficacy of Healthcare Information Technology
24. 17 JulFlipping the Doctor’s Office
25. 17 JulWhat You Need to Know About Obamacare Scams
26. 17 JulThe Samurai Physician’s Teachings on the Way of Health
27. 17 JulFive Potential Healthcare Applications for Google Glass
28. 16 JulWhy You Should Care About the Drugs Your Doctor Prescribes
29. 15 JulReally Meaningful Use
30. 15 JulBringing Nurses Into the Cost Containment Discussion
31. 14 JulThe Affordable Care Act and the Death of Personal Responsibility
32. 12 JulAs the Debate Over Obamacare Implementation Rages, a Success on the IT Front
33. 12 JulHow Digital Technology is Transforming Value in Health Care
34. 11 JulThe GOP’s Endless War on Obamacare-and the White House Delay
35. 11 JulThe Father of Microlending Takes on U.S. Health Costs
36. 11 JulHealth Insurance Exchange Subsidies–Another Warning Sign???
37. 10 JulCaveat Online Health Information Emptor?
38. 10 JulGetting Obamacare’s Messaging Right
39. 10 JulBritish Petroleum’s Wellness Program is Spewing Invalidity
40. 10 JulA New Trend? Hospital Successfully Sues its Patient’s Attorneys for Filing a Vexatious Malpractice Suit
41. 9 JulThe New HPV Guidelines. Balancing Benefits and Harms of Cervical Cancer Screening
42. 9 JulTHCB Calendar
43. 9 JulScience-Driven Innovation and Tech-Driven Innovation: A Marriage of Convenience or a Marriage Made in Heaven?
44. 9 JulZombie Machines Take Over Health Care
45. 8 JulIt’s the Jobs, Stupid. No, Wait. It’s the Stupid Jobs.
46. 8 JulHealth Insurance is Wasted on the Young
47. 7 JulLive From the Garage
48. 7 JulPaying Physicians for Quality: Lessons from Employers
49. 6 JulHospitals Lost Jobs Last Month. Should We Be Surprised?
50. 5 JulThe Real Problem with Board Exams-and How to Solve It
51. 3 JulWhat the EMR Saw
52. 3 JulWhite House Delays Employer Mandate-But What About Small Employers?
53. 2 JulThe Pointless Search for Meaning in Exchange Prices
54. 2 JulAre Young Doctors Failing Their Boards? Or Are We Failing Them?
55. 2 JulCan a Portable Hand Sanitizer System Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections in America’s Hospitals?
56. 1 JulNot Walking Away From Medicare
57. 1 JulWhy Are So Many Younger Doctors Failing Their Boards?
58. 1 JulFast Food Economics: How Medium Became the New Large
59. 1 JulA Time of Change at the American Board of Internal Medicine

June 2013

1. 30 JunWould We Be Better Off If Employers Stopped Paying for Health Insurance?
2. 30 JunCan Hospitals be Sued for Excessive Markups on Medications and Devices?
3. 29 JunYes. Employers Really Are to Blame For Our High Medical Prices
4. 28 JunThree Reasons Uwe Reinhardt Blames Purchasers for Everything
5. 28 JunGetting Back to Normal
6. 27 JunBending the Cost Curve with Reference Pricing
7. 27 JunObesity and the AMA
8. 27 JunHow Patients Can Assess the Quality of Their Outpatient Care
9. 26 JunHacking HIPAA
10. 26 JunMalpractice Claims Feel Endless Because…They Are.
11. 26 JunWhat’s Changed Since the Obamacare Verdict
12. 26 JunHealthcare Lands: Announcing the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation
13. 26 JunToxic Stress
14. 25 JunWhat Doctors Do When They Don’t Know What to Do
15. 24 JunWill the “Instagram for Clinicians” Be a Game-Changing Educational Resource?
16. 24 JunWhy Affirmative Action Still Matters in Medicine. And Probably Always Will…
17. 24 JunThe Art of Measuring Blood Pressure
18. 23 JunIs Obesity a Disease? I Vote No
19. 23 JunMy Name is Rob. And I’m a Recovering Doctor.
20. 21 JunPhysicians Aren’t Driving Up Health Care Costs
21. 21 JunHow Misplaced Reimbursement Incentives Drive Healthcare Costs Up
22. 21 JunWhat Health Reform Can Learn from the Environmental Movement
23. 20 JunWhat if Google Does It?
24. 19 JunRAND Shrugged
25. 19 JunThe Health Insurance Shell Game
26. 19 JunWill the Federal Health Insurance Exchanges Be Ready On Time?
27. 19 JunWhy Texting Public Health Messages Is a Brilliant Idea. Except When It’s Not…
28. 19 JunThe PCORI Patient Engagement Awards: A Call for Proposals
29. 18 JunSelf-Care and Caregiving Apps Development
30. 18 JunBuilding Cost and Quality Into the Electronic Medical Record
31. 18 JunA Case for Open Data
32. 17 JunAre Employers to Blame For Our High Medical Prices?
33. 17 JunTargeting Obesity With Health Care Reform
34. 17 JunOnline Won’t Ever Replace Face-to-Face. Or Will It?
35. 15 JunHow My Parents’ Death Changed My Thinking About End-Of-Life Care
36. 15 JunChapter Nine: In Which Dr. Watson Discovers Med School Is Slightly Tougher Than He Had Been Led to Believe
37. 14 JunWhat the Khan Academy Teaches Us About What Medical Education Will Look Like Ten Years From Now
38. 14 Jun#Dataviz + #Design + #Diabetes: The Beginning
39. 13 JunDefense Probably Goes Commercial, Not Necessarily Proprietary
40. 13 JunGuahao: VC Fantasy. Online Appointment Registration System for China’s 700 Million Internet Users
41. 12 JunWhen Is It Appropriate to Ignore an Advance Directive? Is It Ever Appropriate to Ignore a Patient?
42. 12 JunCould Halbig et al v. Sebelius Sink Obamacare?
43. 11 JunThe Wellness Game: The Employer As the New Parent
44. 11 JunThe IRS Scandal: Implications for HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act
45. 11 JunWill “Too Big to Fail” Come to Health Care?
46. 11 JunHow to Fail at the Next Health Care
47. 11 JunThe Patient Explanatory Model
48. 11 JunWhat Do Patients Really Think? A Report From the Third Annual Health Privacy Summit
49. 10 JunData Points: CDC Numbers Show Fewer Americans Have Trouble Paying Medical Bills
50. 9 JunWill the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Exchanges Be Ready On Time? The Obama Administration’s Top Secret Enterprise
51. 9 JunWhat is the Future State Vision for Health Care Delivery System Transformation?
52. 9 Jun60% of Massachusetts Doctors Will Not Meet State Electronic Record Mandate
53. 7 JunWhen Retiree Benefits and Obamacare Collide
54. 7 JunKnocking the Palooza Out of the Data
55. 7 JunFrom the Case Files of the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Dec 2015
56. 7 JunCalling All Patients: Blue Button Patient Co-Design Challenge
57. 6 JunData Points: Scope of Practice. When You Get Right Down To It, We’d Rather See a NP/PA Than Wait …
58. 5 JunPhysicians Face Unexpected Obamacare Loophole
59. 5 JunWhy Is Obamacare So Unpopular?
60. 5 JunDatapalooza Report on Data Economics and a Call for Reciprocity
61. 5 JunElectronic Health Records. Are We There Yet? What’s Taking So Long?
62. 5 JunAn Anesthesiologist Thinks Out Loud
63. 4 JunA SEC for Health Care?
64. 4 JunThe Doctor is Viral
65. 3 JunHealth Datapalooza Day One: How Will We Grow Data for Improving Health?
66. 3 JunHealth Care Like It’s 1972?
67. 3 JunUnintended Financial Consequences
68. 3 JunThe Most Important Thing (code: e.280.11) I didn’t Learn in Med School (code: 780.92)
69. 2 JunWhy Texting Patients Works: The Health Belief Model
70. 2 JunStraight Talk About Direct
71. 1 JunWhy Is the Doctor Angry?
72. 1 JunTHCB Marketplace: 5th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication
73. 1 JunGlen Tullman–The Teaser

May 2013

1. 31 MayDoes It Matter Where You Die?
2. 31 MaySeven Policy Recommendations for Healthcare’s New Era
3. 30 MayThe Good Doctor’s Mind Map
4. 30 MayThe Independent Purchase Decision Support Test
5. 29 MayLetting the Data Speak: On Refusing Medicaid Expansion
6. 28 MayRate Shock and Awe in California
7. 28 May7 Burning Questions on Marijuana Legalization
8. 28 MayAnnouncing the Novartis Thalassemia App Challenge
9. 27 MayHow UCSF Is Solving the Quality, Cost and Value Equation
10. 27 May7. Task a single entity with defining standards for measuring and reporting quality and cost data.
11. 27 May6. Invest in the basic science of measurement development and applications.
12. 27 May5. Use measurement to promote the concept of the rapid-learning health care system.
13. 27 May4. Measure patient experience with care and patient-reported outcomes as ends in themselves.
14. 27 May3. Measure quality at the level of the organization, rather than the clinician.
15. 26 May2. Use quality measures strategically, adopting other quality improvement approaches where measures fall short.
16. 26 May1. Decisively move from measuring processes to outcomes.
17. 26 MayGE’s Wellness Program: Bright Shining Light or Dim Bulb?
18. 25 MayTHCB Marketplace: 2013 Tufts Health Communication Summer Institute
19. 25 MayDesigning for Caregivers
20. 24 MayA Brief Introductory Course In Personalized Medicine: Read the Chart!
21. 24 MayThe Doctor Is Happy
22. 23 MayThe Oregon Experiment Revisited
23. 23 MayUniversal EHR? No. Universal Data Access? Yes.
24. 23 MayIs the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?
25. 23 MayMOOCS of Note: Free Hopkins Online Course in Patient Safety
26. 22 MayMedicine in Denial: What Larry Weed Can Teach Us About Patient Empowerment
27. 22 MayIs Technology Making Us Fat?
28. 21 MayHospitals’ Twenty First Century Time Warp
29. 21 MayFrom Boston to Oklahoma -Lessons for the Regional Trauma Response System
30. 20 MayThe Smartphone Physical
31. 20 MayBringing Back the House Call
32. 17 MayIf You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don’t Call a Capitalist
33. 17 MayUsing Price Transparency Data Within the Hospital
34. 16 MayWhen Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Hospitals Pay the Price
35. 15 MayNew Developer Contest: Create a Cancer Survivor Tool
36. 15 MayWal-Mart Could Transform Care–But Does It Want To?
37. 14 MayThank You, Angelina
38. 14 MayDid Angelina Do the Wrong Thing?
39. 14 MayThe Leapfrog Group and the Spring 2013 Hospital Safety Score Release
40. 14 MayIs the Online Health Clinic the Wave of the Future?
41. 14 MayHacking Healthcare
42. 13 MayTop THCB Blog Posts of the Last Two Weeks
43. 13 MayThe DIY Electronic Medical Record
44. 12 MayInto the Extrapolation Machine
45. 12 MayThe Bounce Back Effect
46. 11 MayThe Bedside Manifesto
47. 10 MayThe Problem-Oriented Medical Record
48. 9 MayThe Rest of the Story About Hospital Pricing
49. 9 MayNo Resident Left Behind
50. 9 MayValidating Mrs. X
51. 9 MayHow to Avoid Being a Chump For CEOs
52. 8 MayA Duty to Share Patient Information
53. 7 MayOpen Data Advocate Joins Patient Privacy Rights Group as Chief Technology Officer
54. 7 MayDoctors and the Means of Production
55. 7 MayOpen Access: The Next Steps
56. 6 MayMassively Open Online Medicine
57. 5 MayTesting Wisely
58. 5 MayI Was Told There Would Be No Math
59. 5 MayUSPSTF Backs Routine HIV Testing
60. 4 MayMedicine in Denial
61. 4 MayPeacefully Coexisting With the Valley of Death
62. 4 MayTransforming Diagnosis
63. 3 MayCould Opening Up the Doors to the World’s Medical Research Save Healthcare?
64. 3 MayBox Picking Up Where Google Health Left Off
65. 2 MayMisunderstanding Oregon
66. 2 MayIt Was the Best of Times, it Was the Worst of Times
67. 2 MayEvidence That Health Does Not Equal Healthcare? Early Results From the Oregon Experiment Are In
68. 2 MayObamacare’s Birth Control Mandate: The Most Controversial Legislation Ever?
69. 1 MayAttend New York Digital Health Accelerator’s First Demo Day
70. 1 MayFact Check:Will Increased Longevity Bring Down Medicare?
71. 1 MayHow to Find a Neurosurgeon On Craigslist
72. 1 MayA Health Insurance Exchange That Won’t Be a “Train Wreck”
73. 1 MayFor Hospitals On the Edge, HIT Is the Tipping Point

April 2013

1. 30 AprThe Cost of Dementia: Who Will Pay?
2. 29 AprA Call For a New Model For Generalist-Specialist Information Exchange
3. 29 AprThe Electronic Medical Record and the Patient Narrative
4. 28 AprThe ACO Failure Hypothesis: Likely But Not Inevitable
5. 28 AprWhy You Probably Have a Lot Less to Fear From the Latest Superbug Than You Think
6. 27 AprEarth to Washington: Repeal the Sequester
7. 27 AprRyan the Redistributionist
8. 26 AprCaution: Wellness Programs May Be Hazardous to Your Health
9. 26 AprIs the Suspension of the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan a Preview of Obamacare’s Failure?
10. 26 AprThe HRA Hustle
11. 26 AprOpen Research For Open Cures: A Report From Sage Congress
12. 26 AprCaregiving at a Crossroads: New Models, New Opportunities
13. 25 AprWhat Does HIPAA Have to Do With Gun Control? Maybe More Than You Think.
14. 25 AprA Dangerous Distortion: Verizon’s Foray into Emergency Medical Services
15. 24 AprThe Email I Want to Send To Our Tech Guys But Keep Deleting…
16. 24 AprHow Physician Practices Can Prepare for a Health Care Marketplace
17. 23 AprThe Salad Bar That Turned Around a Fortune 500 Company …
18. 23 Apr“Did You Take Care of Tsarnaev?”
19. 23 AprDo Our Cells Have Their Own IP Address Yet?
20. 23 AprAn Epic Voyage
21. 22 AprThe Extinction of the Primary Care Clinic Nurse
22. 22 AprHow to Deliver Patient-Centered Care: Learn from Service Industries
23. 21 AprRecently On THCB
24. 19 AprDriving Front Line Innovation In Health Care
25. 19 AprA Tale of Two Births
26. 18 AprThe Affordable Care Act: Like It Or Not, It’s Catalyzing a Golden Age In Health Care Investing
27. 17 AprWhy Surgical Complications May Actually Hurt Profits Despite What You’ve Just Read
28. 17 AprFinalists in the Shire ADHD Transitions Challenge
29. 17 AprThe Arkansas Experiment: Is the ‘Private Option’ a Realistic Plan For Medicaid?
30. 17 AprWill Your Health Insurer Pay to Train Your Doctor?
31. 16 AprThe Public Votes! Votes for Health Care!
32. 16 AprAn Indecent Proposal That Just Might Solve the Primary Care Crisis: Meet the 35 Hour Work Week
33. 16 AprLetting the Data Speak: A Fresh Look at Health Care Cost Growth
34. 16 AprBuilding a Better Health Care System: The Incentive Cure
35. 16 AprUser Fees for Electronic Health Records?
36. 14 AprIs Patient Engagement the Solution…or a Healthcare Urban Legend?
37. 14 AprDesigning the Doctor of the Future
38. 14 AprThe Economics of Google Glass in Healthcare
39. 13 AprThe Story Behind the CommonWell Story
40. 13 AprChina’s Ghost Hospitals: A Hard Landing Ahead for China’s Health Care Reforms
41. 13 AprThe Global Cardiovascular Risk Score: A New Performance Measure for Prevention
42. 12 AprSo Who Gets Hurt By the Sequester?
43. 12 AprChronic Care at Walgreens? Why (Not)?
44. 11 AprTwo Contrasting Approaches to Health Care’s API Revolution
45. 11 AprHow a Real Writer Dies
46. 9 AprTop THCB Blog Posts of the Last Two Weeks
47. 9 AprHealth Reform Should Include Legal Care for Patients
48. 9 AprWashington’s New Open Source IT Law Could Change Everything. Let’s Count the Ways …
49. 9 AprWhy Medicare Cuts Will Quietly Kill Seniors
50. 8 AprTwitter Study of Vaccine Messages: Opinions Are Contagious, But In Unexpected Ways
51. 8 AprTeaching Value: Medical Educators Need to Take Charge and Help Deflate Medical Bills
52. 7 AprWhat If Doctors Had Instant Access to All Medical Research?
53. 7 AprONC Holds A Key To the Structural Deficit
54. 7 AprWhat Do mHealth Leaders Need Most From Our Government? Clarity.
55. 7 AprThe True Collaborative Health Record
56. 6 AprDoctors: We Can’t Leave It to Business to Educate Us
57. 5 AprCould Private Investment Be A Game Changer For Med Student Debt?
58. 5 AprThink NCAA Athletes Shouldn’t be Paid? What the Kevin Ware Story Says About the Risks of College Sports
59. 5 AprWho Are These Guys? Why the PCORI Picks Matter a Lot More Than You Probably Realize.
60. 5 AprZombie Hospital Economics
61. 5 AprShould Small to Medium-Sized Practices Use Cloud-Based EHR?
62. 5 AprJAMA EHR Study: Misdiagnosis Poses Significant Potential for Harm
63. 5 AprInside the New Data on ADHD Diagnosis Rates
64. 5 AprStrength In Numbers
65. 4 AprA Model for Health Care Reform:Would You Guess Medicare Part D?
66. 4 AprHealthy Community Data Summit — A Call to Action
67. 3 AprSo It Turns Out Inventing Your Own Business Model Is More Fun Than You Were Expecting…
68. 2 AprHow the Best of Intentions Is Hurting Care for Americans Who Live In Rural Areas
69. 2 AprWhy Disease Management Won’t Be Going Away Any Time Soon
70. 2 AprCan We Put the Hospital Marketing Genie Back in the Bottle?
71. 1 AprMeasuring the Quality of Hospitals and Doctors: When Is Good Good Enough?
72. 1 AprWellness Programs Aren’t Working. Three Ideas That Could Help.
73. 1 AprWhy Become a Doctor?

March 2013

1. 29 MarShoe-Leather Epidemiology Needs More, Not Less Funding
2. 29 MarA National Caregiver Corps: What the Administration Could Do
3. 29 MarThe Tablet Transition
4. 29 MarPandora’s Pillbox
5. 29 MarStepping Up to the Long-Term Care Crisis
6. 29 MarApp Prescribing: The Future of Patient-Centered Care
7. 28 MarThe Data Diet: How I Lost 60 Pounds Using A Google Docs Spreadsheet
8. 27 MarTop THCB Blog Posts of the Last Two Weeks
9. 27 MarObamacare’s Other Benefit
10. 27 MarSix Months Out Health Plan Execs Say They Doubt Exchanges Will Be Ready
11. 26 MarThe Napsterization of Health Care
12. 26 MarDear HIPAA: It’s Time to Decide Who You Want To Be
13. 26 MarHow to Write Your Own Obituary
14. 25 MarA Roadmap For Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
15. 25 MarWhy Only Business Can Save America From Health Care
16. 24 MarWhat the Story of a Much Talked-About Bay Area Startup Tells Us About the Future of Health IT
17. 24 MarA $910 Million Price Tag For California Exchange: A Dark Omen of Things to Come
18. 24 MarHealth Care Shibboleth
19. 22 MarHow the Media Portrayed the CVS Wellness Program-and Got It Wrong
20. 22 MarCombat Medicine’s ‘Golden Hour’
21. 21 MarHippocratic Hypocrisy: When It Comes to CPR, Is Less Care Actually Better Care?
22. 21 MarTHCB Shout Out
23. 21 MarLet’s Have Dinner and Talk About Death
24. 21 MarTruth At the End of Life
25. 20 MarFive Things Obamacare Got Right-and What Experts Would Fix
26. 20 MarThe Smarter Healthcare Consumer Myth
27. 20 MarRWJF Call for Proposals: Pioneering Use of Behavioral Economics
28. 20 MarAccountable Care Organizations Can Change Everything, But Only If We Get the Definition Right
29. 19 MarThe Ghost of Steve Jobs and Your Bottom Line
30. 19 MarGauging if Chronic Diseases can be Tamed By Enlisting Residents of an Entire County
31. 18 MarWhat the Early 2013 Match Day Numbers Tell Us About Where We’re Going
32. 18 MarThe #CommonWell Open Discussion Forum
33. 18 MarStates Must Step Up to Help Consumers Gain Access to Health Care Prices
34. 18 MarWhat the US Can Learn From China’s Health Care Reform
35. 17 MarThe State of Self-Tracking
36. 17 MarA Time Out For Health IT?
37. 15 MarReady For O’Ryancare?
38. 15 MarNaked political plug: Aneesh Chopra in California this week
39. 15 MarCase Study: What Should the Health Plan Executive Do?
40. 14 MarBeyond HIT Operability: Open Platforms Are Key
41. 14 MarWhy Haven’t Electronic Health Records Made Us Any Healthier?
42. 14 MarBuilding a New SuperTool to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections
43. 13 MarMoving Toward An Identity and Patient Records Locator
44. 13 MarHow Should Apps Be Prescribed?
45. 12 MarWhy Patient Engagement Really Does Matter and Why So Many People Are Getting It Wrong
46. 11 MarTop THCB Blog Posts of the Last Two Weeks
47. 11 MarDeath By Remote Connection
48. 11 MarSitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation
49. 10 MarNot Knowing What You Don’t Know
50. 10 MarWhen Technology Understands What People Want From Healthcare, Our System Has A Chance
51. 9 MarCan Health Care Transparency Make A Difference?
52. 8 MarWhat Will Tomorrow’s Doctor Look Like?
53. 8 MarThe Republican Case For Waste In Health Care
54. 8 MarHIV Messenger Baby
55. 7 MarMost Online Patient Reviews Rate Doctors Highly. Really.
56. 7 MarRuling Out the Wrong Diagnosis
57. 7 MarThe Radical Rethinking of Primary Care Starts Now
58. 6 MarTrickle Up Economics
59. 6 MarMatthew Holt on HIBC.tv from HIMSS 2013
60. 6 MarCommonWell Is a Shame and a Missed Opportunity
61. 6 MarReally Big New Thing
62. 6 MarHow Tech Can Empower Young Adults with ADHD
63. 5 MarDid Massachusetts Health Care Reform Hurt Access To Care For the Previously Insured?
64. 5 MarPaging Dr. Google
65. 5 MarHow the Best Innovate and Commercialize
66. 4 MarPhysician Entrepreneurs
67. 4 MarWhat Apple Can Teach Health Care About Thinking Different
68. 3 MarThe Promises and Pitfalls of Pay for Performance
69. 3 MarThe Health IT Scandal the NY Times Didn’t Cover
70. 3 MarObamacare In Pictures
71. 2 MarThe Patient-Centered Practice, Revisited
72. 1 MarPILOT Health Tech NYC Matches Startups with NYC Health Care Service Organizations
73. 1 MarInterview with Stuart Fletcher, CEO, Bupa
74. 1 MarZen and the Art of Charting
75. 1 MarHiMSS Countdown, with Matthew Holt
76. 1 MarHHS CTO Bryan Sivak on Open Data

February 2013

1. 28 FebHow Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care
2. 27 FebAre Price Controls the Answer?
3. 27 FebHow Many States Are Really Opting In?
4. 27 FebNow For The Rest Of The Story On Massachusetts Cost Control
5. 27 FebCertifying apps? Happtique’s big new idea
6. 26 FebThe HIT Job
7. 26 FebEmployee Benefits Gone Wild
8. 25 FebDeath of an Evangelist
9. 24 FebPraying For Obamacare to Fail
10. 24 FebData Mining Systems Improve Cost and Quality of Healthcare – Or Do They?
11. 23 FebHow Much are Misaligned Incentives in Health Care Costing Tax Payers?
12. 22 FebDelivering Progress. Choosing Wisely.
13. 22 FebRick Scott’s Privatization Experiment in Florida
14. 21 FebInvestors Are from Mars. Entrepreneurs Are from Venus
15. 20 FebThe IPAB Bomb
16. 20 FebKilled by The New York Times?
17. 19 FebThe Four Things You Should Absolutely, Positively Do For Somebody at Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s
18. 19 FebA Call for Apps at the HDI Forum IV: Health Datapalooza
19. 19 FebMy Patient’s Keeper
20. 18 FebProgress Note: So, It Turns Out Starting a Business Is Really, Really Hard…
21. 18 FebIs the Patient Safety Movement in Critical Condition?
22. 17 FebDivided Health Care Nation
23. 17 FebLet Them Eat Cupcakes
24. 17 FebA Kinder, Gentler Approach to Managing Health Care Risk
25. 16 FebWhen Patients Can Obtain Their Own EKG
26. 15 FebIs Interoperability Possible in HIT? And if it Is, Do We Even Want it?
27. 15 FebThe Founding Fathers Write a Grant Proposal
28. 15 FebThe Rise of the Non-Physician Expert
29. 14 FebThe 30-day Readmission Rate: Not a Quality Measure but an Accountability Measure
30. 14 FebWhen is a Health Care Facility not a Health Care Facility?
31. 13 FebWhy HHS Created Partnership Exchanges and Why More States Are Choosing Them
32. 13 FebChoosing Alternative Medicine
33. 13 FebDrugmakers May Win Big in Effort to Curb Gun Violence
34. 13 Feb“Social Documentation” for Healthcare
35. 12 FebMislabeling Medical Illness
36. 12 FebThe “Post EHR” Era
37. 12 FebThe RUC is a Symptom. RBRVS is the Disease
38. 11 FebHow to Win Friends and Influence Millennials: Health Exchanges Edition
39. 11 FebFundamentals of Electronic Medical Record Design Part I
40. 11 FebEngaged Patients Translate to Better Outcomes and Costs
41. 11 FebBehavioral Economics and Influenza Immunization
42. 10 FebBuilding a Better Health Care System: Why the Next Blockbuster Drug Probably Won’t Be a Drug at All
43. 10 FebRedesigning the Personal Health Record
44. 8 FebDay One: Not So Grand Opening
45. 8 FebCommunity Care of North Carolina’s Last Chance: To Fool the Legislature Rather than Answer the Questions
46. 8 FebOne Woman Brand: How one Doctor Started Over Again With a New Practice, a New Specialty and a Great New Outlook on Life
47. 7 FebLife Support and Taxes
48. 7 FebCan Facebook Save Us?
49. 6 FebIs Walgreens the Future? What a Big Pharmacy Chain’s Moves Tell Us About Obamacare
50. 6 FebHow the RUC Escaped a Challenge to Our Deeply-Flawed Reimbursement System
51. 5 FebIt’s the System, Stupid: Reversing the Law of Unintended Consequences
52. 5 FebGetting Pay-For-Performance Right
53. 4 FebThe Nine C’s of Successful Accountable Primary Care Delivery
54. 4 FebBuilding a Better Health Care System: Electronic Health Records Could Help Identify Which Patients Most Need ICU Resources
55. 4 FebHealthEd Academy Report: Speaking Multiculturally in Health Care
56. 4 FebShould Your Review of Your Doctor Be Taken Seriously?
57. 3 FebThe Gold Plated Health Care System: What the New Numbers Tell Us about the State of the Economy
58. 2 FebBuilding a Better Health Care System: Should We Be Tracking Misdiagnosis?
59. 1 FebCould Wasteful Healthcare Spending Be Good for the Economy?

January 2013

1. 31 JanHow Doctors Think About New Technologies
2. 30 JanWhy Obamacare Helps Small Business – And What That Means For the Rest of Us
3. 29 JanQuantified Death
4. 29 JanThe Healthy Crowd
5. 28 JanOpenNotes: Drilling Down to Assure a Healthy Evolution
6. 27 JanRob’s New Economics of Practice Management
7. 27 JanReplacing Lance
8. 26 JanLawyers, Guns and Doctors
9. 25 JanAbout Time? Smokers Face Tough New Rules Under Obamacare
10. 24 JanAre Healthcare and Health IT in a Dysfunctional Relationship?
11. 23 JanSix Awkward Concerns in My OpenNotes
12. 23 JanTHCB Calendar: 2013 Harvard Business School Healthcare Conference
13. 23 JanOpen Health Data: An International Snapshot
14. 23 JanAnd With the Stroke of a Pen, Health Insurance Exchanges Become Health Insurance Marketplaces ….
15. 23 JanWhy Employers Should Stop Worrying About Health Costs
16. 22 JanIn Defense of Narrow Networks
17. 22 JanSo, What Exactly Is a Health Insurance Exchange Anyway???
18. 22 JanObamacare’s Fiscal Cliff
19. 21 JanThe Chart-Eating Virus, Me Too Software and Other Emerging Digital Threats
20. 21 JanSet My People Free
21. 21 JanWhat the Story of a Famous Little White Pill Says About How Medical Research Works
22. 20 JanHeroes and Villains
23. 20 JanHealth Expert Insight for 2013: Jeff Goldsmith and Charlie Baker
24. 18 JanConnecting Medical Devices and Their Makers
25. 18 JanWelcome to Healthcare IT Live!
26. 17 JanIs Health Care about to Go the Way of the Dodo?
27. 17 JanFinally. Hard Evidence Against the Autism Epidemic?
28. 17 JanONC Health IT Announces Ocular Imaging and SMART-Indivo App Challenge Winners
29. 16 JanWhy ACOs Are not HMOs and Other Important Questions
30. 16 JanInside Three ACOs: Why California Providers Are Opting for the Model
31. 16 JanUnleashing the Innovation Monster
32. 15 JanThe Nursing Shortage Myth
33. 15 JanMobilizing Data for Pressure Ulcer Prevention
34. 15 JanNYeC Launches Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge
35. 15 JanDoctor Code: Learning EMR Language
36. 15 JanNew on Bookshelves: Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare
37. 14 JanAccidental Tourist: Visiting the Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok
38. 13 JanA Tale of Two Studies: What Are the Actual Costs of an EHR?
39. 12 JanFive Lessons in Transparency from Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove
40. 11 JanThe Independent Payment Advisory Board: Why It Is So Difficult to Kill the Death Panel Myth
41. 11 JanProgress
42. 10 JanBeyond the Fiscal Cliff? The Sea of Uncertainty …
43. 9 JanThe Breast Density Bill: A (Very) Dense Dilemma …
44. 9 JanFrom ZPICS to RADVS: The Alphabet Soup of Patient Charts and Payment Tracking
45. 8 JanThe Hoax of Entitlement Reform
46. 8 Jan2012 Digital Health Investment Activity: The View From the Valley
47. 7 JanUnscience
48. 6 JanBuilding a Better Health Care System: Patient-Friendly Orders
49. 4 JanAlice in Healthcareland
50. 3 JanThe Fix that Failed
51. 2 JanBuilding a Better Health Care System: End of Life Care – A Case Study
52. 1 JanWhy Getting to a Digital Health Care System Is Going to Be Harder Than We Thought Ten Years Ago