2014–2015
1,246 posts
2015 594
December 2015
- What the Wall Street Journal Tells Us About Complications After Surgery: Not Much
- 21st Century Cures Act: Away From the “Valley of Death”
- How Should Errors In the Patient Medical Record Be Addressed?
- The 2016 Regulatory Landscape: A Review For Health Care Watchers
- The Year of the Hacker
- Why Meaningful Use Has to Go
- The Quest For Zero Infections: A Fool’s Mission?
- Thirty Events That Really Did Very Little to Change Health Care’s World
- This Year Give The Gift of the Health Care System
- Was Martin Shkreli Arrested For Hiking Drug Prices?
- The Little Agency That Could
- Job–Health 2.0 seeks Conference Director
- This Visit May Be Recorded
- All I Want For Christmas: Seven Things I Wish My EMR Could Do
- A Little Context in the Workplace Wellness Debate
- It’s Still the Prices, Stupid!
- Electronic Health Record Data Shows Reports of Hoverboard Risks Zipping Higher
- The Magical World of ACA Funding
- The Massachusetts Medical Society on Meaningful Use
- Saving Normal
- Why Doctors should Recommend Quantified Self Technologies for Their Patients
- Genetic Testing: The New Frontier of Wellness Madness
- The Right Not to Know
- Physician Burnout Rates Top 50% in latest Mayo Study
- The Profitability (or Not) of Harming Patients
- HEART for the Stage 3 API
- This Is America: You Don’t Have to Do Anything You Don’t Want To
- Headlines We’ll See In 2016
- America’s Bitter Pill: CBO was Right. The White House and Steven Brill Were Wrong.
- Uberizing Health, Data is the Vehicle … And a Right
- The Cost-effective Cardiologist..
- Two HIT Developers Respond: Why We’re Still Optimists About Technology’s Potential
- Tackling Rising Pharmaceutical Prices: 50 Shades of Gray
- Health 2.0 Presents the Final Agenda for WinterTech 2016
- What Would Issac Asimov Do?
- This Is Not A Disruptive Blog Post
- A Health IT Developer’s Confession: How Bad Software Is Made and What to Do About It
- What Killed Scott Weiland?
- Reduction in Hospital Errors—Progress, But Still Not Enough
- What’s Missing in the Debate Over Employer Wellness Programs
- The Ten Worst Wellness Programs and What They Do to Harm Employees
- The Meaning of “Value” in Health Care
- On the Preventability of Lethal Errors: A Response to Dr. Koka
- The Healthcare System Link in the San Bernardino Shootings
- Rethinking our Thinking about Diagnostic tests: There is nothing Positive or Negative about a Test result
November 2015
- Very Bad Numbers
- A Home for Orphan Wearables
- A Usability Conundrum: Whether it is EHRs or Hospital Gowns, One Size Never Fits All…
- Venrock headlines Health 2.0’s Digital Health Investor Conference, WinterTech 2016
- Cost, Value & Tools
- Closing the Loop on The Need for Better Telemedicine
- How to Safeguard your Career in Treacherous Healthcare Times
- Obamacare is failing? Not so fast.
- A Radical Policy Proposal: Go Easy On Older Docs
- 25 Reasons It is Time to Kill Meaningful Use
- A Blue Jumps the Wellness Shark
- The Limitations of Healthcare Science
- Academic Tossers
- UnitedHealth Threatens to Pull the Plug. Why? The Obamacare Business Model Does Not Work
- Three Rules For a Healthy mHealth App
- Yes, People Shop for Health care. But are they Good at it?
- Bringing a Complex Health care system Into Alignment
- When it Comes to Healthcare IT Success Stories, Don’t Count out the Little Guy
- “Winning” by Defeating the Triple Aim
- First, we Devalued Doctors; Now, Technology Struggles to Replace Them
- Why Doctors Still Don’t Text or E-mail their Patients
- Potential Bias in U.S. News Patient Safety Scores
- Listen to People you don’t Like!
- Middle Age Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
- Physician Disrupt Thyself
- Can Community Organizing and The “third place” Improve Public Health?
- What Doctors should Know when Joining a Startup – Five Key Books
- Interoperability: Faster Than We Think – An Interview with Ed Park
- The Self-Pay Paradox
- What Does it Mean When We Say a Treatment “Works?”
- The End Game–Live in Finland!
- Being Graded
- The Network You May Not Like
- Better Living Through Research Design
- Flashback from Fall Conference: The Unmentionables
- Obamacare’s Tax Credits: A Prisoner’s Dilemma for Insurers, Consumers
- The Doctor- Patient Relationship and the Outcomes Movement
- How a Simple Little Pill Ended Up Costing 1000 Percent More Than Its Ingredients
- A Proposal to Increase the Transparency and Quality of Electronic Health Records
- Crowdfunding: Careful What you Wish For
- The Surprising Story of The Original Luddite
October 2015
- The End of the NHS?
- How Doctors Became Subcontractors
- Uber’s Surge Pricing May not Lead to a Surge In Drivers
- Practice Data Points
- Chelsea Clinton & US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy at Health 2.0 Fall Conference 2015
- ACA Open Enrollment Round 3: The Going Gets Tougher
- Who Is to Blame for Health Care’s Problems? A Tale of Two Narratives
- Sex, Lies and Cheeseburgers
- Is Health IT Finally Ready to Tackle Last-Mile Analytics?
- Healthcare’s Deadly Data Problem
- Pink is The New Black
- Defining Interoperability: An Interview with Grahame Grieve
- The Writing Is On the (Healthcare) Wall
- Why Health Care Providers Should Publish Physician Ratings
- Stop Calling Them Patients!
- Why Does the FDA Approve Cancer Drugs That Don’t Work?
- Disruptive Idiots From Silicon Valley
- The Time-Warp
- ONC’s Interoperability Plan: a Day Late and $19bn Short
- Right Care Action Week – What can Radiologists do?
- The Dangerous Patient Safety Delusions of Eminence-Based Medicine
- The Last Checklist
- Why Watson May Not Be Quite the Great Civilizational Advance IBM Says It Is
- The High Cost of High Cost
- How Proposed New Rules Could Change the Anesthesia Care Team
- Five takeaways about the Theranos broo-ha-ha
- GET Funded Service – What did we learn?
- Medical Errors, Or Not
- Key for Health IT Entrepreneurs: Don’t Disrupt the Wrong Thing
- An October Surprise For Co-Ops
- An Interview with InterSystems Clinical Advisor Nelson Le
- What Cardiologists Can Teach Economists
- The “90 Day Contract”
- Scoring the Surgeon Scorecard
- Wellness 2.0: Better Health, Better Coverage
- Contextual Communication
- An Interview with PatientSafe CEO Joseph Condurso
- Trauma Room Two
- Measuring ROI: Quantifying the Benefits of an HIE
- Payers Join the Healthcare Team
- Is ProPublica the Paul Revere of Transparency?
- The Goose and The Elephant
- What the World Might Look Like If We Taught Docs How to Hack Spreadsheets
- Shared Baselines as a Guide to Protocols
- Healthcare Startups – Why Now and So What?
- Rehabilitating Health Charities
- Misunderstanding ProPublica
- An Error about Mistakes
- In Defense of Mistakes
- Measured Outcomes: A Future View of Value-Based Care
- Small Groups Changing the World: ReThink Health’s Report On Multi-Sector Partnerships for Health
- Finding Common Ground in the Search for Better Patient Care and Outcomes
- The Legend of the Avoidable Hospital Readmission
- Using EHR Data to Manage Hypertension More Aggressively
- A little Sharecare, Health 2.0 taster
- Will Watson Replace Radiologists? Ask a Radiologist.
- Texas Hasn’t Banned Telemedicine: Why The TMB Regulatory Approach Makes Sense
- Healthline creates provider-focused NLP company Talix
- Indu & Matthew talk Health 2.0 with Lisa & Dave
- Tyson’s Law
- Why More Physicians Will Adopt Electronic Health Records
- Anthem and Cigna: A Love Story
- Speak Softly and Carry (Good) Data
- Private Medicine in India is a Free Market
- Private Medicine in India is No Free Market
- Welcome to ICD-10
- Getting the Real Story: Valid Performance Measures
September 2015
- It Costs Nothing to Care: Why We Need to Provide Health Insurance for Undocumented US Residents
- Is Obamacare Working? Show us the Data
- Should the Government Provide Infrastructure For a Health Data Highway?
- Healthcare’s Perpetual War
- Health 2.0: Exclusive Interview with Susannah Fox, CTO of HHS
- The HDE Project coming to Health 2.0’s annual Fall Conference!
- ICD-10 and the Apocalypse
- Post-HITECH HIT: Still Waiting
- America’s Nursing Crisis
- Miss America Contestant Kelly Johnson on Nursing
- Mercer’s Hard-to-Find “Winning Streak”
- What ONC Got Wrong in their Guidance on Telehealth
- A Parasite meets Wall Street
- Uncle Sam, Yelped
- How I Use P4 Medicine to Maximize Patient Engagement
- Health 2.0 announces Launch! and Traction Finalists
- Diagnostic Error: The IOM Talks Trash (But Not Cash)
- A Small EHR Vendor’s Emotional Open Letter to Users
- This Is Your Brain On Wellness
- Why Chris Borland’s Retirement Makes Sense, And Does Not Make Sense
- Big PopHealth: Healthcare Analytics Summit 15
- Patient Collections Is Changing. Balances Are On the Rise. Here’s What You Need to Know.
- Symptoms of Unknown Origin – The Prevalence of False Diagnosis of Disease
- Lifetime Health Records For Patients?
- The Wisdom of the Blogs
- Merge Away!!!
- Qualcomm Life adds inpatient strategy with Capsule purchase
- Health Information Technology: A Guide to Study Design For the Perplexed
- What Will Doctors’ Lives Be Like In 2016?
- ACA Database: The Doctor Is a Monopoly
- Goldilocks and The Three Bearers of Value-Based Health Reform
- An Open Letter to Larry Page and Eric Schmidt
- Getting (to the Value) of Value In Health Care
- The AMA’s Forgotten Fight Against Physician Greed
- Why Data Governance Needs a Henry Kissinger
- The World In 2016: Health Care Edition
- Is Obamacare working? Where’s the data?
- ACA Database: How Do I Report a HIPAA Violation?
- Pilot Health Tech NYC 2015 Launches Today!
- The Story of the Dying Doctor Who Saved a Patient’s Life
- The Measure of a Physician: Albert Schweitzer
- Are Studies Overestimating the Cost of EHRs?
- The Phonemic Path: A Way to Measure Health That Can Lead to Health Improvement
- Clinical Research Rebooted
- Value-based Telemedicine
- The Finns are coming, the Finns are coming (to Health 2.0!)
- Universal Patient Identifiers for the 21st Century
- On Moving the Physician Movement Forward
- Reforming the Reformers
August 2015
- Don’t Repeal the Cadillac Plan Tax – Replace It
- The Human Side of Corporate Medicine
- The Commonwealth Fund Gets It Wrong
- The Tower of Babel and the Sea of Consumer Confusion
- Can We Tame The Wild West of Health Care Pricing?
- Are Physicians Really Dissatisfied With EHRs? Should We Be Concerned?
- PCORI is Starting to Click. Give It a Chance.
- Is Your Hospital CIO Acting Like a North Korean Dictator?
- Why Your Doctor Is Thinking About Getting an MBA
- All the President’s E-mail
- The Donald Effect
- How Stanford Med Got “Work-Life Balance” Wrong
- For Patient Safety: A Reversal. What Can Healthcare Teach the Aviation Industry?
- Will Private Exchanges Move Us Closer to Socialized Medicine?
- Save the Hipsters
- Why Prisons Should Try Readmissions Penalties
- The New Laws for Hope(Lab)
- Bringing Clinicians, Patients, and Financial Administrators into a Common Conversation About Affordable Care
- Moving From Spaced Repetition to Spaced Learning
- Protecting Americans from Preventable Infections: Working Together Will Save Lives
- Intersystems emerging from behind the scenes
- Did the Wellness Industry Just Admit Fraud?
- Is Your Marketing the Love Child of Warren Harding?
- TRACTION: Contest Deadline TODAY
- What’s the Definition of Interoperability? A Conversation With EXTREME’s Adam Wright
- Employee Health Codes Of Conduct: What Would They Look Like and Who Would Accept Them?
- ACA Database: Private Alternatives to Medicare?
- Only the Information You Need – Physicians’ Desk Reference Gets Mobile Upgrade
- A Near Death from Voodoo Hexing
- Blood Clots Show Limits of Quality Care Penalties
- Does Prevention Save Money? ____ Yes ____ No
- Inside Baseball: The DoD EHR
- Will Software Eat Healthcare?
- ACA Database: I’m In Hell. Long-term Facilities Are Cutting Services Due to the ACA’s Reimbursement Changes
- Why Doctors Are Leaving Medicine For Tech
- Dan Burton explains what Health Catalyst does!
- ACA Database: Are There Any Plans in the Works to Force Doctors to Accept Obamacare?
- ACA Database: The High Price of Specialty Drugs Is (Literally) Killing Me
July 2015
- Xerox is extending to consumers & communities
- Of PCPs and THC
- The reboot for Care Innovations : Interview
- The ProPublica Report Card: A Step In the Right Direction
- Calendar: Powering Medical Research With Data: The Research Analytics Adoption Model
- It’s “Slack for Health Care”- athenaText
- Dean Stephens updates Healthline’s new entry into clinical world
- Limelight Health raises $3m to automate insurance quotes
- After Transparency: Morbidity Hunter MD joins Cherry Picker MD
- How Is Health Reform Impacting Insurance Switching Patterns?
- NantHealth buys Harris: Why?
- Watson will replace me? Not a chance!
- Physician Accountability Gets a Big Push Forward
- Surgical Complication Rates and the New Data Perspective
- The Hidden Side of Health Care: How Rural Pennsylvania Is Facing and Overcoming Obstacles
- What Company Will You Keep? Strategy In Health Care’s New Era
- Why Health Care Performance Measures Need Their Own Grades
- Bungled Payments
- How Big Data Can Be Used to Improve Early Detection of Cognitive Disease
- Powering Medical Research With Data: The Research Analytics Adoption Model
- Death By Documentation
- What the Atlanta HIV Data Tells Us About Public Health in America
- To Make Hospital Quality a Priority, Take a Page From Finance
- Why Doctors Quit (And What to Do About It)
- (Even) More Disruption, Please !!
- The Health Care Handbook: Medical Malpractice
- The Feminization of Health Care
- Building a Corporate Venture Group That Matters
- HIT Newser: CMS & AMA Agree to be Odd ICD-10 Bedfellows
- Yes, Expand Medicaid!
- Stealing a Page From Medicine’s Playbook: The American Board of Baseball
- Are Charts Dead?
- A Declaration of Data Independence Through the Lens of the Patient
- It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, It’s SCOTUS!!
- The ABIM Controversy: A Brief History of Board Certification and MOC
- King vs. Burwell: Chalk One Up For Common Sense
- Quantifying the Art of Medicine
- No MUwithoutMe: Here’s What Happened When I Requested My Medical Records
- An Anatomy of Chairs
- FTC Files First Ever Complaint Against a Kickstarter Project …
June 2015
- Health 2.0 Quarterly: What’s New in Q2?
- How Might Crushes Right In Healthcare
- Disruptive Regulation
- How to Win Friends and Influence Doctors
- HIT Newser: ACA upheld – Can We Talk Health IT Now?
- How Population Health Is Driving Merger Mania Among Anthem, Cigna and the Rest of the Big Insurers
- Uber and the Twisted Logic of the Affordable Care Act’s Employer Mandate
- Driving Innovation Through an Apps-Based Information Economy
- Two Years Later: How Kynect Has Impacted Kentucky’s Healthcare System
- King vs. Burwell: Supreme Court Backs Federal Health Law Subsidies
- Real Mentoring Lessons From the Liver Queen
- Five Rules for a Real Mentor
- Moneyball For Doctors and Nurses (and the People Who Run Hospitals)
- Legislation that Could End Unwanted Medical Treatment
- The Digital Doctor: Is Natural Language Processing the Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting For?
- Achieving Balance After Another ACA Decision
- Pioneer ACOs: Anatomy Of A ‘Victory’
- HIT Newser: Prison time for HITECH fraud
- Data Druggies
- Averting the Ax at AHRQ
- Brookings vs Yelp and E-Patients: They’re All Wrong, but Mostly Brookings
- Sorry, Patients ARE Qualified to Yelp Doctors!
- Anatomy of a Healthcare Quality Metric
- Do You Need a Medical Degree to Crowdsource Medicine?
- A Powerful Tool For ICD9-ICD10 Conversion
- Chelsea Clinton, AMA, Walgreens Headline Health 2.0’s 9th Annual Fall Conference
- THCB Registration Now Open
- Transparency: Houdini’s last trick
- Giving Software Engineers a Seat at the Table
- Health System Conflict 101
- The M Word
- The Dark Age of Meaningful Use
- From the People Who Brought You ACOs: A New Model For Healthcare Transformation
- Obamacare Set To Spike? Um…
- HIT Newser: We Need Interoperability, Says HELP
- What Went Wrong?
- Is CRM the Answer?
- Can Open Health Data Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India?
- The Land of Milk, Honey and Low-Priced Health Insurance
- Bridging the Gap between MUS2 and Patient Engagement Through Appointment Reminders
- Health DataPalooza 2015: The Download
- What India’s Teleradiology Market Teaches Us About the Future of Medicine
- Can the EHR Save the Private Practice?
- HIT Newser: Will Stage 3 Meaningful Use Be Delayed?
- How to Out-Argue Your Doctor with Data
- Productivity? In Healthcare?
- How I Built a Health App In Six Hours, Got 2.3 Million Downloads and Got Acquired
- A Few Thoughts on “Culture” in Healthcare
- Congrats. You’ve Just Been Named CTO of HHS. What’s Next? Yup. SELFIES!!!!!!
- Building Healthy Communities 2.0
- Why Large Scale Government IT Projects Fail and What To Do About It
- Data Shows Large Rise In List Prices at Hospitals
- Interoperability via Direct Exchange: A Brief Update Mid-2015
- Health Data – It’s a “Thing!”
- If You Can Read My Note, The Patient Was Sick
- Physician Burnout Presents Differently in Male and Female Doctors
- Did Dr. Virginia Apgar worry about work-life balance?
May 2015
- Fear-based Medicine: Using Scare Tactics in the Clinical Encounter
- A Classic Non-Reaction Reaction From Screening Proponents
- Non-Profit IDNs: Where’s Da Beef?
- Creative Minds: Building a Better Electronic Health Record
- The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More
- Life Is Complicated
- A Shout Out For Our Sponsors: Health Catalyst
- Free Our Health Records: Get your health records and help save lives
- Is Healthcare Designing the Wrong Patient Experience?
- GOP Has the Fear: King vs. Burwell
- Doctors Going the Distance (In Education)
- Credibility of Evidence: A Reconsideration of the Logic and Strength of Our Healthcare Decisions
- Rick Scott is an Idiot
- The Purpose-Driven Hospital
- Value-Based Care’s Data Problem
- New York Innovates in Medicaid—But Ignores a Key Member of the Team
- A Call For a New Accreditation Body For Health IT Privacy
- The Readmissions Penalty at Year Three: How Are We Doing?
- Patient Engagement: Much Bigger Than Patient Portals
- An Interview with BID-Plymouth CIO Ron Rutherford and Clinical Informatics Nurse Jean Marie Grupillion
- Forks In the Road
- Value-based Interoperability: Less is more
- Keep Calm and Interoperate On
- The “21st Century Cures” Draft Bill: A Step Away From Transparency
- THCB Marketplace
- Sumit Nagpal, Lumira, talks rebranding & more
- Patient-Centered Research Can Improve Chronic Pain Care and Address Opioid Abuse
- Physician Data on Impact of Health Reform In 2014
- Why Are Medicaid Visits Falling In Non-Expansion States?
- Something Completely Different
- The 5 Percent Conundrum
- Do it for Mom: Sign Up to Support Electronic Access to Your Health Records Today
- An Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg
- Real Meaningful Use? Curing Healthcare’s Digital Divide
- It’s Time to Stop Calling Them EHRs
- A Second Look at the Two Midnight Rule
- Why Cancer Patients and Clinicians Need a Decision Aid Upgrade
- Doctors Should Own Up to Creating the Mark Cuban Problem
- ONC Awards $300K in Funding to 6 Digital Health Pilot Projects!
April 2015
- Wikipedia: Homeopathy and Evidence for Unpatentable Medications
- Opening the Care Conversation Through Open Notes
- HIT: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here
- Ridicule Mehmet Oz, Don’t Have Him Fired
- Independent Practice Equals Higher Satisfaction
- SGR Appeal: Fixing the Present, Setting a Foundation for the Future
- Finding the Stars of Hospital Care In the US
- Why Microsoft May Be the One to Watch
- Will HIMSS Bring About World Peace?
- HIMSS15 Wrap up
- Five Years of Failing Patients
- In Defense of Epic. No, Really!
- Last Chance for Meaningful Use
- Designing For Good: A Designer’s Hippocratic Oath
- Surviving the Affordable Care Act Grace Period
- The Big Fix. Medicare Doc Pay Enters a New Era
- Time For a Stand Against Misinformation
- The Anecdote-Innovation Cycle
- The 3 S’s of Smartphone Shopping
- Emerging Healthcare Innovation Space Needs Serious Investors, Herd Thinning
- HIMSS 2015: Medicomp’s Dave Lareau
- An EHR Attestation Report Card and Data Set
- HIMSS15: Health IT Leaders 3.0 & The Venture + Forum
- Pharma and Volume-to-Value: The Big Throwdown
- In Search of Intra-Aero-Bili-ty
- ONC Report on Health Information Blocking: A Solid Double, But NOT a Home Run
- The Blocking of Health Information Undermines Interoperability and Delivery Reform
- The HIMSS Version of Voter ID Laws
- Why the Market Can’t Solve the EHR Interoperability Problem
- How Technology is Driving the Next Wave of Telemedicine
- Electronic Medical Records May Cast Physicians in Unfavorable Light During Lawsuits
- The Coming Health Tech Disruption
- HIMSS 2015: Girish Navani
- SGR. RIP, Hopefully
- The Digital Doctor – The Review
- HIMSS 2015 THCB Sponsor Directory. Thank You Sponsors!
- Livongo Health adds $20m, Tullman interview
- Epic Systems’ Open Platform Will Bring U.S. Health Care Delivery Into the 21st Century
- Training Day
- Health Care Ux Design: Crucial But Conflicted
- Processed Food Wars: Why the Stuff You Buy at Whole Foods May Be Cheaper Than You Think
- How Meaningful Use Stage 3 Got Patient Engagement Wrong
- Radiologists vs. Mark Cuban on Don’t Ask / Don’t Tell
- Learning From Our Interoperability Failures
- A Business Proposal for Mark Cuban
- An Epic Struggle for the Soul of Medicine
- Will Independent Physicians Go Extinct?
- HIT Newser: Big Win for Epic in San Diego
- Let’s Play “What If”—the Data for Health Edition!
March 2015
- Rooting and Leveraging the Innovation Economy
- Precision Medicine’s First Real Patient: The National Health IT System
- HxRefactored Interview: Care Delivery Innovation with Mulesoft
- What Does Real Meaningful Use of an EHR Look Like?
- On Mandatory Screens and the People Doing the Screening
- The High Cost of Reducing Waste in US Healthcare
- Accountable Care: Transparency of Fees Is Mandatory
- The Health Care Blame Game
- The Real Story Of How I Sold Two Startups, The Chaos Afterwards, And What’s Next
- No More Numbers
- Patient Self-Scheduling 2.0
- Happy 5th Birthday, ACA
- Spring Deliveries from Washington
- Patients are NOT Customers
- Congress Can’t Solve the EHR Interoperability Problem
- Google Algorithm to Favor Websites That Work on Mobile Devices
- An ER Doc Steps Outside After Losing a 19 Year Old Patient
- FHIR: Technology and Governance
- HIMSS 2015
- Back In the Day *
- The “Business Case” For Patient Safety
- What Zeke Missed on an Annual Physical
- Meet the Worst Video Game Ever Invented: The Electronic Medical Record …
- How To Kill a Doctor
- HxRefactored Exclusive Interview with Amy Cueva, Chief Experience Officer, Mad*Pow
- HxRefactored: Exclusive Interview with Alan Joseph Williams, Code For America
- HIT Newser: The Judy Faulkner Foundation or Whatever We’re Calling It
- THCB Corporate Supporter
- Go Beyond Using Your EHR; Practice Heads Up Medicine
- Clinical Man *
- If You’re Thinking of Quitting Medicine, Watch This Video
- Status Epilepticus
- Tech Industry, Heal Thyself
- The Guy at the Gym Wants to be Your Healthcare Provider
- Got an Infection? Good Luck Finding an ID Doctor
- Satisfaction Scores: How I Almost Made a Hotel Manager Lose His Job
- What If Restaurant Bills Looked Like Hospital Bills?
- On THCB This Week
- A Checklist For Surviving Academic Medicine
- Academic Medicine Survival Guide
- King v. Burwell: Will the Supreme Court Save the Republican Party from Itself?
- Apple’s ResearchKit is Not (Yet) Ready For Primetime – But Soon? A Medical Researcher’s Perspective
- Validic meets Cerner–Drew Schiller speaks
- Apple Research Kit is Open Source But Is It “Open”?
- Understanding Value-Based Purchasing
- Do Value-Based Payments Lead to Higher Doctor-Satisfaction Scores?
- This isn’t what we meant when we said “Like Uber For Doctors”
- Value-Based Health
- From Google to New Reimbursement Models, Digital Health Trends for 2015
- Livongo–update on the “new diabetes meter experience”
- Make Your Organization a HIMSS15 Standout!
- HIT Newser: What’s the ICD-10 Contingency Plan?
- Why Data Handoffs Matter
- Open Sourcing What Works in Health & Wellness
- Does the ACA Actually Mandate Free Checkups?
- When Good Patient Engagement Goes Bad
- Race, Ethnicity and Patient Engagement
- The FDA & Me (or How to Explain Your Test Isn’t a Game)
- Anthem Arrogantly Refuses Audit Processes. Twice.
- Iconoclasts and Healthism
- One of Those Patients
- Killing Cancer
- Is There a Business Case For Patient Engagement?
- Dad Has the Flu and There’s a Baby at Home
- What Can Meaningful Use Learn From Healthcare.gov?
- What’s wrong with Cannon, Halbig & King in 5 tweets
- Value-Based Reform
- THCB E-mail Notifications Are Back!
- King v Burwell: Three Scenarios
- Using a Mobile App for Monitoring Post-Operative Quality of Recovery
- Shared Responsibility in the Affordable Care Act
February 2015
- Feedback Loop
- Health 2.0 Asia: Japan Conference Partnership
- The Facebook Model for Socialized Health Care
- The Digital Doctor: Automation, Aviation and Medicine
- A Master Class In Health Policy with Kavita Patel
- Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
- The Tao of Wearables
- A Shout Out to Our Sponsors
- Weight Loss Fines Are Discriminatory and Counterproductive
- What Do Women Know About Obamacare That Men Don’t?
- HIT Newser: Black Book Rankings Not So Unbiased?
- Why Anthem Was Wrong Not to Encrypt
- A Ray of Light at the Brigham
- How to Avoid Being a Dumb-Ass Doctor, Blog Edition
- The Hospital That Shall Remain Nameless
- Reality-Based Policy and the Digital Doctor: An Interview with Mark Smith
- The Myth of Doctors Getting Overwhelmed by E-mail
- My Doctor Just Gave Me His Cell Phone Number …
- Good News: NIH Discovers Data Scientists and The Private Sector
- HIT Newser: The Not-So-Big Meaningful Use Stick
- Healthcare’s Reform Pareto Trap
- Please Choose One
- The High Cost of Free Checkups
- Could mHealth Apps Be a Reprise of the EHR? The Need For Clinician Input
- Three Lessons Healthcare Executives Can Learn From the Sony Hack
- It’s Past Time to End the Employer Mandate
- HIT Newser: Millions and Millions for More Interoperbility
- A Detailed Analysis of the Republican Alternative to Obamacare
- A Shout Out to Our Sponsors
- Open Enrollment, Take 2: What Matters For The ACA Marketplace?
- How Technology Will Disrupt Your Doctor’s Monopoly
- False Positives and Real Dollars: Why $88 won’t effectively screen for lung cancer
- Halamka Speaks: athenahealth & the Future of AMCs as Tech Innovators
- Anthem Was Right Not to Encrypt
- NATE: Making Choices Easier
- Will Getting More Granular Help Doctors Make Better Decisions?
- The Psephology of Early Diagnosis in Britain’s NHS
- Computers Replacing Doctors, Innovation and the Quantified Self: An Interview with Atul Gawande
- Random Evil Policy Cancellations
- Where Does the ACA Go From Here?
- Health is Life
- How the Advent of Propofol Changed the Meaning of the term “Sedation”
- Health IT: Glass Half Empty? Half Full? Shattered?
- Privacy and Security and the Internet of Things
- HIT Newser: A Meaningful Sigh of Relief
- CPOE For Management
- KLAS Announces 2014 Best in KLAS Winners
- The Therapeutic Paradox: What’s Right for the Population May Not Be Right for the Patient
January 2015
- Tele Taking Off
- You Owe Me a BMW
- Medical Necessity and Unnecessary Care
- A Tale of Two Sore Throats: On Retail Clinics and Urgent Care
- Meaningful Use Retreat Report
- The Little Exchange that Could…Transform the U.S. Health Care System
- A Courageous First Step
- Three Recommendations for President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative
- HIT Newser: An Epic Loss for Cerner & GE + Google Glass Confusion
- Safe Doctors, Unsafe Patients: A Tale of Two Infections
- What’s Next For Physician Compare?
- Dump the Business Model
- My World in 2015
- A Response to Steven Brill
- My Health Data Is Killing Me
- HIT Newser: The Flex-IT Bill, Take 2 + Dr. Google In EHR Bid
- The American Healthcare Consumer
- Will There Be a Sony For Healthcare in 2015?
- 2015: The Year We Finally Meet The Triple A
- Invaders from Mars with Commentary from Robert Burns
- Healthcare and the Second Machine Age: An Interview with Andy McAfee
- Rock Health and the Search for ‘Home Screen Health App’
- Thesis-Driven Investing in Digital Health: An Interview with Rebecca Lynn
- An Equity Analyst’s Take on Health 2.0 Trends To Watch in 2015
- Trends that Translate into Investment: Examining Consumer Health with Norwest Ventures
- An Open Letter to the People Who Brought Us HIPAA
- More Evidence Obamacare is Good For White People
- Mobile App or Mobile Web? Solving the mHealth Dilemma
- Why Technology May Not Fix The Medication Adherence Problem
- The Sunnier Side of India’s Free Market Medical Imaging
- HIT Newser: A Setback for MyMedicalRecords
- Getting to Pareto Optimality from Sermo–The Dan Palestrant interview
- Why Can’t someone Give Me the Perfect Managed Personal Health Record (mPHR)?
- “I Smoke and I Am Not Going To Quit. My Physician Says I Need a CT scan. Do I?”
- THCB Marketplace
- (Big) Garbage In. (Big) Garbage Out.
- Does Restricting Physician Duty Hours Improve Patient Care?
- Do You Really Know What’s in That Cracker? Tellspec Does
- RingMD: The Newest Entrant in the US TeleMedicine Market
- Black Turtlenecks, Data Fiends and Code. An Interview with John Halamka
- The Anesthesiologist’s Story: New Details Emerge In the Joan Rivers Case
- Commentology: The Real Professor Baicker
- HIT Newser: Accenture Tapped to Continue Work on HealthCare.gov
- Like Air Traffic Control For Healthcare
- 2015: The Year Well-Designed Interfaces Will Transform Health IT?
- It’s Official: Aledade ACOs Up and Running
- You want yer 2015 predictions?
- Revolutionizing Retail and Health – Walmart drives care into new settings
- Competing With Urgent Care
- Will the Real Professor Katherine Baicker Please Stand Up?
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December 2014
- Matthew’s end of 2014 charity & issues letter
- Rethinking The Gruber Controversy: Americans Aren’t Stupid, But They’re Often Ignorant — And Why
- 2014 A Healthcare Odyssey
- Sit. Stand. Stay. Good worker.
- Has Med School Changed For the Better?
- HIT Newser: Massachusetts Modifies Meaningful Use Mandate
- Do We Need Patient Relationship Management (PRM) Systems?
- Stories You Won’t Read In 2015
- Zen and the Art of Antibiotics
- Why I’m Starting a Radically Different Kind of Medical Practice
- The Trouble with Home Health Care & Care Coordination
- Rediscovering Medical Professionalism
- Fact vs Fiction – Navigating the Health Care Marketplace with Consumer Reports
- Health is All Around Us : How Our Environment Informs Our Health
- Reactive vs. Proactive Health Care: The Intersection of Payment Reform & Consumer Data Powering Clinical Insight
- Let’s Have APIs for Those Provider Directories!
- HIT Newser: Appalling Meaningful Use Penalties
- The Value of Workplace Health Promotion (Wellness) Programs
- Grading the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
- A User Interface Is Like a Joke
- What has Surveyor Health been up to?
- We Spend More on Health Care Than Other Rich Countries but Have Worse Outcomes?
- Flu Report: Providers Prescribing Antivirals at Higher Rate
- I Have DCIS, Should I Have a Bilateral Mastectomy?
- A Secret Playbook to Torment Doctors
- Advice to Vivek Murthy: Be Nonpartisan, Use Common Sense and Move Americans
- CVS Health: Making Health More Affordable
- #Whitecoats4Blacklives
- The App Is the Outcome
- Three Ways Doctors Can Use Patient Data to Get Better Results
- The FY15 Budget: There’s More to it Than the Numbers
- Sony Hack Reveals Health Details on Employees and Their Children
- HIT Newser: The Doctor Will Facetime You Now
- Health Care Registries: Powerful Tool, Narcoleptic Name
- Good News From CMS at Last? Maybe Not
- An Open Letter to Ezekiel Emanuel on Life and Death
- Starvation: The Cure For the Obesity Epidemic. Or Will Esther Dyson Be My Next Mother-In-Law?
- The Wellness Industry’s Terrible, Horrible No-Good Very Bad Week
- The Anti-Hypocrisy Rule
- The Great Patient Experience Survey Myth
- 2015 Forecast: A True Healthcare Market Takes Shape
- The Federal Strategy For Collecting, Sharing and Using Electronic Health Information
- THCB Thanks Our Sponsors
- ONC Signals a Shift From Documents to Interfaces
- Germs. The Pseudoscience of Quality Improvement
- HIT Newser: Health Data Outside the Doctor’s Office Part II
- Being Gawande
- A Doctor is a Doctor is a Doctor, Right?
- PCORI Board to Consider Hepatitis C & PCORnet Funding at Dec. 8 Meeting
- Paper EOBs? Please Make Them Stop!
- I Am Not a Provider.
- Why We’re Getting Patient Engagement Backwards
- 53 Is the New 38
- Secrets to Choosing the Right Medical School
- Marketplace: Digital Health Maven Growth Salon NYC
- Health Data Outside the Doctor’s Office
- HIT Newser: Alarm Issues Top Health Hazard List
- Healthcare.gov? Go to the Back of the Line!!!
- We Don’t Have to Live This Way!
November 2014
- Blog-a-palooza!
- Wellness Puts CEOs on a Collision Course with Obamacare and Common Sense
- The Case Against Patient Portals
- Recalling To Err’s Impact and a Small (But Telling) IOM Mistake
- RIP Meaningful Use Born 2009 – Died 2014???
- Health Care for Dummies (and Innovators): In search of a practical definition of health
- MyFitnessPal Works If You Use It
- HIT Newser: The CommonWell Alliance Gets More Common
- Is Deborah Peel up to her old tricks?
- Unlucky In Coverage
- Preparing for Updates to the Medicare Shared Savings Program
- Why You Should Ditch Your IT System
- Is Becoming a Doctor Worth $2.6 Million?
- Help With Covered California
- Grubernomics
- HIT Newser
- The Nurse Practitioner … Er, We Mean Doctor Is In
- Knowing When to Say Yes to Medical Technology
- Gruber’s Voters: Rational Ignorance
- An Open Letter on the NATE Trust Community
- A Culture of Overtreatment
- 65 Million People Lost Weight With MyFitnessPal?
- Reimbursement, Prepare to Die!
- The Glass Is Half Full
- A New Era for our Military Health System
- The Cadillac Tax Attack
- Health IT Newser
- Pay for Engagement: A New Framework for Physician Reimbursement
- ONC launches Pilot Program to Catalyze Health IT Innovation
- Inoculating Your Wellness Program Against EEOC Attack
- Could the ‘Design Thinking’ that Led to the Apple Mouse Transform Health Care?
- No Country for Old Smokers
- Primary Care Physicians Need To Be More Like Financial Advisors
- ACOs Are Doomed / No They’re Not
- Dear ACO General Hospital
- Solving the Primary Care Shortage
- The White Paper Isn’t Dead. It’s On Life Support.
- Health IT Newser
- A Shout Out For Our Sponsors
- What Do I Do If I Don’t Have a Template?
- California’s Proposition 46: Trial Attorneys Behaving Badly
October 2014
- Fast Medicine
- Eat Less. Eat Less Crap.
- Partnership, Collaboration, and Success Between Vendors and Hospitals — it is possible!
- Big (Box) Medicine
- The Self-Health Era
- Health 2.0 Announces Agenda Highlights for WinterTech
- Ebola and the Information Flow Challenge
- A Shout Out To Our Sponsors
- The Promise of Informatics-Enabled Research: The California Mastectomy Study
- Who Do We Blame Now?
- The Rx for ICD-10 and the Threat of Inaccurate Documentation
- Expect big things from YOUR AHA Scientific Events. You Ask. We Listen. We Deliver.
- Health IT Highlights from the Past Week
- Did CDC laxness on one infection help spread another?
- Is It Possible to Catch Ebola From the Media?
- Bayer’s Head of Innovation and Tim Kelsey of the NHS to Keynote Health 2.0 Europe
- DeSalvo Out as ONC Head, Moved to Ebola Fight.
- Ebola, EHRs, and the Blame Game
- Update on CDC Guidelines on Ebola Specimen Handling + Lab Testing
- The Great Checklisting of American Medicine
- A Virtual Buddy System For Soldiers Returning From War
- Health Value: IT and the Rise of Consumer Centricity
- SENSING XCHALLENGE, with Google Hangout Wednesday at 10 PST
- The Antifragile CDC
- Connecting, Reflecting and Projecting with American Well CEO Roy Schoenberg
- Throwing the EHR Under the Bus …
- Data for Health: Coming to a Town Near You …
- Statement from the Dallas Nurses
- Angry Nurses Tell of Ebola Patient’s arrival at Texas Hospital
- Viewics: Changing the World of Health Care Data
- Getting Your Own Health Records Online: The Good and the Not So Good
- It Takes More Than A Village To Improve Community Health
- Big Data gets a Big Spotlight at AHA Scientific Sessions
- The Free Market, the Unrestrained Consumer, and Jonathan Bush’s Solution to Healthcare costs
- Six Sigma vs Ebola
- It Cost What? Crowdsourcing Costs In An Evolving Healthcare System
- How Not to Talk to Someone Dying of Cancer
- Tales From the Accelerator
- Healthcare Accelerators Evolve Towards Specialization
- Ebola Offers a Teachable Moment For Health Information Technology
- Let’s Make Sure “Health” Encompasses “Care”
- UC Davis Pre-Medical & Pre-Health Professionals National Conference
- Why ACO Savings Aren’t About Location.
- An Open Letter to the FTC on Hospitals and Providers
- THCB Marketplace
- Why #CultureofHealth Doesn’t Work For Me
- A Crowdsourced Campaign to Help Patients Access Their Medical History
- Why Health Outcomes Data Should Directly Feed Back To The Frontline
- Hospital at Center of Ebola Outbreak Reverses Its Story
- Would Clinical Decision Support Have Helped Prevent the Ebola Misdiagnosis?
- An Extremely Teachable Moment
- A Deeper Dive into the Rio Grande Valley
- 3 Reasons Why Healthcare Needs Hackathons
- Can Pot Protect the Brain After Injury? A New Study Says It Can
- Wait, Maybe Technology Won’t Replace Doctors After All!
- Innovation, Primary Care Style
- The Kaiser Permanente Model and Health Reform’s Unfinished Business
- Government’s New Doctor Payments Website Worthy of a Recall
- Free Medical School?
September 2014
- The Ebola Outbreak: The CDC Director’s Guidance for Health care workers
- Changing My Mind on SES Risk Adjustment
- Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes Are Scary, but Do They Work?
- Ceci Connolly: Will Technology Replace Doctors?
- Have Doctors Joined the Working Class?
- Surviving Healthcare
- The Org Chart of the Damned
- Ask Me Anything with CDC Director Tom Frieden
- Biosurveillance at the Point of Care
- It’s a Trade-Off, Stupid.
- What’s So Wrong With Randomized Trials?
- HCA: The Bashful Giant
- Will Technology Replace Doctors?
- THCB Marketplace
- Eric Topol: The Patient Will See You Now …
- Should Docs Prescribe Data?
- PiPS: When Less Is More
- What Happened at Yorkville Endoscopy?
- The Political Economy of Hackathons
- Will 2015 be mHealth’s Coming Out Party?
- Maximizing Healthcare Connectivity and the Bottom Line
- EHR Design: It’s a Matter of Time
- What Does Big Data Actually Mean?
- THCB Marketplace
- Help the Doctor
- How Digital Health Can Solve Healthcare’s Data Portability Challenges
- The Centrifuge Brain Project
- How To Discourage a Doctor
- All I Want For Health IT Week Is An EHR Overhaul
- What Is It With Gun Rights Proponents?
- Would You Take a Bullet For Your Clinical Data?
- Unnecessary “Preventive” Mastectomies are Surging in Young, White Women With Insurance
- The Must-See Digital Health Startups of 2014
- Those New Neighbors
- Interview with Adam Pellegrini Walgreens, VP of Digital Health
- Anesthesiologist’s Review of the Facts in the Joan Rivers Case
- mHealth – Beyond “There’s an app for that”
- Countdown to Health 2.0 2014: Exclusive Interview with ONC Chief Medical Officer Jacob Reider
- What Would You Give Up For a Virtual Doctor Visit?
- CVS Health: Breathing a Little Easier and Holding Our Breath
- Eighth Annual Health 2.0 Conference
- Why Public Health Needs a New Gun Doctrine
- Can Self-Made Hospital Apps Reduce Healthcare Costs?
- Waiting For Payment Reform?
- On the origins of Maintenance of Certification in the National Health Service: A Serial Killer
- Patient IO Care Plan Platform Announces Integration with Apple HealthKit
- Expecting the Unexpected
- Meet the Apple Watch
- Should Wearables Data Live In Your Electronic Medical Record?
- Is Healthcare a Business?
- Behind the CVS Health Decision
- What Killed Joan Rivers? Piecing Together a Medical Mystery
- Why Nobody Is Using Your Health App (And How to Fix It)
- Yes, Doctors Are Sick of Their Profession. And You’re Making Things Worse!
- Sometimes the Best Choice is the Simplest One
- It is Time for Clinicians to Engage: Let’s Criticize Less and Dare Greatly More
- Medicaid 2.0
- PRICE INCREASE TODAY 9/2: Health 2.0 8th Annual Fall Conference
- A Crystal Ball for Medicine
- Why Physicians Are Turning to Startups
August 2014
- A Hospital That Is a World Leader On Transparency
- The Quantified Doctor
- Calling Mrs. Kafka
- XPRIZE Names 10 Finalists in Tricorder Competition
- Is It Possible That All Healthcare Needs to Know We All Learned In Kindergarten?
- The Power of Small
- Startups Seeking Series A? Apply to Pitch at Traction at Health 2.0!
- Are Federal Regulations Stifling Disruptive Healthcare Technologies in the US?
- Facebook Is Bad For You. And Giving Up Using It Will Make You Happier
- How Much Is My Colonoscopy Going to Cost? $600? $5,400?
- Doubling Down on ACOs and Health Information Networks
- Zen and the Quest For Quality
- Share Your Primary Care Innovations
- The Data Response Curve (In Honor of the Dose Response Curve)
- What PHR Should I Use? It’s Complicated.
- An Open Letter on Open Healthcare Data
- Is the Patient the One With the Disease?
- CDC Laboratory Guidance on Ebola
- Should We Send Docs to Tech School?
- HIT: How the VA Reform Bill Benefits Entrepreneurs
- An Open Letter to Primary Care Physicians
- Help Bring Health 2.0’s Panel to SXSW!
- How Much Market Power Do Hospitals Really Have?
- Why I Am Still Optimistic About the Future of HIT
- Why Doctors Shouldn’t Be Healers
- How Effective is CER?
- Giving Startups their Big Start: How Developer Challenges Make the Difference
- So That’s What You Get The Big Bucks For?
- “Putting Care In Context” Design Challenge Winners Announced
- Informed Consent 2.0
- A Time For Revolutionary Thinking
- The Case For Payers to Oppose Meaningful Use
- Why the WHO ethics advisory group is a start but hardly sufficient
- Health IT: Will Europe Catch the Wave?
- The Right to Die: The Suicide Checklist
- What Healthcare Could Learn From a Technology Company
- Is It Ok To Lie To My Insurance Company?
- Churn and the ACA
- The Future Is Calling Us
- Writing the Value-Based Contract
- How Much Does an MRI Cost In California: $255? $973.25? $2,925?
- Early Exchange Outlook 2015
- International Classification of Diseases Hampers the Use of Analytics to Improve Health Care
- Innovation Isn’t A Pipe Dream, How Health Care Organizations Can Adopt Digital Health Technologies
- Doctors Who Take Medicine Into Their Own Hands
- What the California Rate Increases Should Tell Us
July 2014
- Pseudo Innovation
- An AIDS-Free Future Requires More Than Medicine
- Meet the First Aledade ACOs
- Ask Not What Your Government Can Do For You: JFK Speaks to Us About Health
- The Non-Physician’s Guide to Hacking the Healthcare System
- A Challenge to Control Blood Pressure Using HIT
- Many More Halbigs to Come
- Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO to Keynote Health 2.0
- Narrow Networking
- Hyping Cancer Genotyping
- Using Big Data to Manage Medical Expectations
- No Mystery: Arizona Execution Lengthy Due to Drug Choice
- Half the Cost. Half the Jobs?
- Are Patient Privacy Laws Being Abused to Protect Medical Centers?
- Halbig corpus interruptus
- Halbig Decision Puts Obamacare Back on the Front Burner and Will Give GOP a Massive Political Headache
- The Answer To the Doctor Shortage Isn’t More Doctors
- OpenFDA – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- The Next Health Economy
- What’s Behind the Obesity Epidemic? Easily Accessible Food, and Lots of It
- Clinical Care Systems for Small Practices: A Market Opportunity
- An Open Note to Open Notes Objectors
- Jessie Gruman: Tribute to a Tightrope Walker
- Who Is the Better Radiologist?
- Doctors vs. Zombies
- Circulation: The Nineties Called. They Want Their Wellness Policy Back
- EMR Data Shows Medicaid Gap Widening Between Expansion and Non-Expansion States
- The Misuse of Meaningful Use, Part II
- Can Amazon Dominate In Insurance, Too?
- Missing the Forest For the Granularity
- Microsoft Ventures Tel Aviv Is Looking For Startups
- The Cost-Response Curve
- Healthcare Reform Even the Tea Party Could Support
- Google Co-Founders: “Thanks, But No Thanks”
- What the Supreme Court Decisions Mean For the Future of Employer-Based Insurance
- How Telehealth May Be Promoting Fraud and Abuse
- Should Medical Ethics Be Modernized?
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Health IT
- The Cost Curve Probably Won’t Bend Downwards. But That’s Ok.
- The Coming Debate Over Specialty Drugs
- Physician Burnout: It’s Time to Take Care of Our Own
- Big Data in Healthcare: Good or Evil? Depends on the Dollars
- Electronic Cigarettes: What’s in the Vapors?
June 2014
- Is the Electronic Health Record Defunct?
- Killer Features of the Next EMR
- What Would You Do If You Were Me?
- Disrupted: How Computerization Is Changing the Practice of Medicine In Surprising Ways
- What JCAHO Knows
- Breaking: Health 2.0 Fall Conference Lineup Is Out!
- PCORI Works to Deliver the Comparative Evidence Health Care Stakeholders Need
- Physicians Interactive Acquires MedHelp In Move to Bridge Consumer and Provider Worlds
- Where Are The Hot Spots For Antibiotic Resistance?
- 2014 Black Book Survey Says Majority of Medical Practices Want Updated Software
- The Long and Short of Health Numbers
- Penalizing Hospitals For Being Unsafe
- What Wall Street Can Teach Health Care About Targets and Measurement
- What’s the Value of a Cancer Cure?
- It’s the GPs, Stupid. Care Coordination in Britain’s NHS.
- What’s In Our Medicine Cabinets?
- Are Doctors Paid Too Much? Behind Medicine’s Nasty Little PR Problem
- How Conflict of Interest Became a Health Care Urban Legend
- Be Prepared: Beyond the Alphabet Soup of Value-Based Care
- Click This, Not That: Talking to Patients About Reliable Online Health Information
- Launching Aledade
- What a New Benefit From Starbucks Teaches Us About the Future of Employer Provided Health Insurance
- Health Care’s Rube Goldberg Machine. Who Is Responsible?
- How Business Can Save America From Health Care
- The Angry Patient: A Primer For Physicians.
- Who Is Your Sugar Data?
- An Outbreak of Outbreaks
- How Does the VA’s Technology Rate Against Other EMR Vendors?
- Coming To a Decision On Decision-Support Technology
- 10 Things You Can Do With CMS Data
- The Future of the Physician
- Head Games
- Is the Wearable Market About to Explode?
- Pharos Innovations Meets Isaac Asimov
- The Side Effects of Releasing Public Health Insurance Data to the Public
- Lost in the Health Care System?
- Doctors and Nurses in a Twit about Technology Destroying Healthcare
- The Perfect Storm: Health Reform and America’s Hospitals
- Really? Online Reviews Could Help Fix Medicine
- Apple Enters the Healthcare Software Ecosystem
- What a Nurse Taught Me about Checklists and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
- Robots Are Coming and They Plan to Treat You like a Moron
- What Twitter Tells Us about the War on Cancer
- Should Health Consumers Be Paid for Performance Too?
- Upgrading the Value of Data Transparency in the Health Sector
- Before Privatizing the VA, Publicize It
May 2014
- Will the Shinseki Resignation Turn around the VA?
- Optimal Positioning Strategy and the “Quantified Relationship” in Baseball and Health Care
- A Policy Model For Telehealth Technologies
- Health Datapalooza Exclusive Interview: Dwayne Spradlin, CEO, Health Data Consortium
- Three Reasons AstraZeneca Were Right to Reject Pfizer
- Samsung Throws Kitchen Sink onto the Wrist
- Socialized or Not, We Can Learn from the VA
- Vendor Management Systems and the Commoditization of Physicians and Nurses
- Personal Tech
- Will Tech Revolutionize Health Care This Time?
- Do We Really Need the VA?
- The Cheeseburger Study
- Download Two of These And Call Me In the Morning
- Tending to the Health Care Workers of America
- If We Want Lower Health Care Spending, We Are Going to Have to Pay for It
- If Marketing Is so Dangerous, Should Medical Schools Be Doing so Much of It?
- The Case For Traveling to the Center of Our Social Networks
- Why the Phrase “Noncompliant Patient” Bothers Me, And Should Probably Bother You Too ..
- The NFL’s Conflicted Relationship With Doctors
- A New Era in Value-Driven Pharmaceuticals
- A Closer Look at Public Trust in Healthcare
- The VA Scandal: Implications for Health Reform and a Call for Clinical Research into the Reported Death Rate
- Because Cancer.
- Scope of Practice: Playing at the Top of My License?
- Early ACA Data Shows No Wave of Sick Patients
- Developing Physician Culture in New Risk Models
- The Case for Dropping MU Stages 2 and 3
- Harvard MOOC: Patient Safety and Quality with Ashish Jha
- Introducing PH555X: Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety
- Another Step toward Open Health Education
- With November Elections Six Months Away Obamacare Is Up for Grabs
- Government (Or, How My Cousin the President Nearly Killed My Company)
- Some Serious Medication Instructions …
- Cheeseburger Please, and Make It a Double
- Growing Up in the Era of Work-Hour Restrictions
- An Unfunded Mandate For Behavioral Health
- The Cost of One Wild Night
- A Doctor’s Guide to Botched Executions
- Doctor Paul Revere Fails to Light the Fire
- How Community Health Centers are Taking on Accountable Care for the Most Vulnerable
- A Closer Look at Physician-Hospital Alignment
- Thinking Out Loud About A New Approach To Digital Health Innovation – PART 3
- The Doctor Crisis
- A Modest Proposal: Charting Day
- Higher Workloads and Fewer Nurses? Not a Recipe for Patient Protection and Affordable Care.
- Would a Single Payer System Be Good for America?
- Medicare Advantage: Moving toward a Better Model for American Health Care
- A Declaration of Independence Is Only the Beginning
- Rapid Advances in Health IT Adoption and Use in the Safety Net
- Button 2.0: Open Access
- The Canadian Health Care System I Disparaged
- Dad, You Have to Inhale
- Adventures in Caring and Acting Affordable
- The End of Antibiotics. Can We Come Back from the Brink?
- So What Do the Expanded Enrollment Numbers Mean?
- How Much Will It Cost to Let Me Die?
- Doximity Raises $54 Million. But What Value Will They Add?
- Medical Devices and Patient Safety: A Promising Path Forward
- A Swedish Country Doctor’s Proposal for Health Insurance Reform
- A Holistic View of Evidence-Based Medicine
- What Healthcare Can Learn from Pixar’s Braintrust
- Keas Poll on Workplace Stress and Disease Burden Provides an Education
- Who Should Pay Doctors?
- 10 Ways Innovation Could Help Cure the U.S. Health Spending Problem
April 2014
- Using Technology to Better Inform Consumers about Privacy Decisions
- The Gift of Cancer
- Should Medical Schools Teach to the Boards?
- Traditional Chinese Herbalism at the Cleveland Clinic? What Happened to Science-Based Medicine?
- Hacking the Hospital: Medical Devices Have Terrible Default Security
- Doximity Raises Another $54M to Pursue LinkedIn’s Business Model Too
- Why a Majority of Readmission Risk Tools Fail in Practice
- Health Reform and the Mission of Nonprofit Hospitals
- Doctors Should Be Paid for Outcomes. But Which Outcomes?
- What We’ve Learned from Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Physicians
- The Medical Chart: Ground Zero for the Deterioration of Patient Care
- Why Are Al Lewis and Vik Khanna Such Jerks?
- Placing Diagnosis Errors on the Policy Agenda
- The ICD-10 Extension: For Whatever Reasons, Congress Did the Right Thing.
- Moore’s Law in Healthcare – Three Predictions
- Obamacare Observations from the Marketplace
- Make Sense? Competition, Not Higher Premiums, May Turn Out to Be the Biggest Threat to Obamacare Buyers
- Would You Get a Brain Implant if It Could Make You Smarter?
- Diagnosis Is Not Therapy
- Let Doctors Be Doctors
- Stop the War on the Emergency Room!!! (Fix the System Failure)
- Advancing Health Equity in the Digital Age
- Health Information Technology: Sorry, There’s No Turning Back!
- Why Are There so Many ___________s in Medicine??
- Is Higher Spending Truly Wasteful?
- A New Way to Explore and Comment on Doctor Data
- How Should Doctors Get Paid? Hourly Wage, Piecework or Quality?
- Things That Make Me Worry About My Colonoscopy
- Amazon Shows the Way on Wellness — Treat People like Adults
- Whose Cancer Is It, Anyway?
- What I Would Do If My Foot Caught Fire
- Rebooting Primary Care From the Bottom Up
- Virginia Should Take Obamacare’s Money
- What a Physician-Led ACO Can Teach Us about Getting It Right
- An Example of Bad Design: This App’s Interface for Entering Blood Pressure
- Health IT: The Coming Regulation
- It’s Raining Cataracts, Hallelujah
- SuperDocs and Quality Talks: Notes from the Annual Meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine
- Ok, I Have Insurance Now. But I Can’t Use It.
- Open Notes: Is Sharing Mental Health Notes with Patients a Good Idea?
- ACA Signups hit 7.5 million. Sebelius Steps Down. Mathews-Burwell to Lead HHS.
- ACA 101: An Employer’s Search for Objective Advice
- Measuring the Impact of Health Care Reform on Day-to-Day Physician Practice
- Will the Uninsured Become Healthier Once They Receive Health Care Coverage?
- Going after the Wrong Doctors
- RAND: Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance
- Fatal Error
- Cracking the Code on Health Information Exchange. Is It Time to Wipe the Slate Clean and Start Anew?
- How Should Doctors Get Paid?
- Are We Prepared For The Next Viral Disease Threat?
- Obamacare Premiums Are Going To “Skyrocket”? Forget About It.
- The Problem of Pain: When Best Medical Advice Doesn’t Equal Patient Satisfaction
- Healthcare.gov and the History of Failed IT Projects
- How to Avert a Doctor Shortage
- Open Call: The NY Digital Health Accelerator
- The ACA– As Much As We Could Have Hoped For, Despite Sensible Old Men
- 7.1 Million. Will the Obama Administration Regret Today’s Announcement?
- The Rest of the Story on Health Exchange Enrollment
- Health 2.0 is now mHealth & Associates
- More Evidence That Patient Centered Medical Homes Don’t Work
- Where the ACOs Are
March 2014
- Taking Stock of the ACA
- Death Panels: Can We Handle The Truth?
- Unpacking the Doc Fix
- Hospital Acquired Infections: How Do We Reach Zero?
- Numbers We’d Rather Be Talking About
- Is Medicine a Big Data Problem?
- For Hospitals and Health Systems: Strategies for Doing More with Less
- How PCORI’s Research Will Answer the Real World Questions Patients Are Asking
- Here’s How We Can Fix Obamacare if We Act Now and Stop Pretending the Problems Don’t Exist
- Google Flu Trends Shows Good Data > Big Data
- Commentology: The Creative Destruction of Healthcare
- Will eClinicalWorks Win the Race to “Engage” the Patient?
- Actually, It’s a Great Time to Be a Doctor
- Employers 2.0
- How a Washing Machine Inspired Me to See the Future of a Safer ICU
- What If Your Employer Gets Access to Your Medical Records?
- An Obamacare Fine on Overweight Americans: Discriminatory and Ineffective
- TED 2014: Flip the Clinic!
- The Note Taker’s Dilemma
- An Open Call for the PCORI Matchmaking App Challenge
- What Makes a Good Doctor? And Can We Measure It?
- TED2014: Grandmother Avatar with TB Beckons Medical Education Her Way
- Meet Propeller Health: Digital Health’s Poster Child for Invalid Savings Reporting
- McNutt-Hadler Credo for Value-Laden Medical Decision Making
- Can I Record My Conversation with My Insurance Company?
- Republicans Considering Proposing High-Risk Pools: Health Insurance Ghettos???
- The Oncologist’s List
- Very Big Data
- The Apple Has Landed
- Why the Subsidy Gap Isn’t Actually a Gap
- What Do Millennials Want from the Healthcare System?
- Why Bad Research Makes It into Good Medical Journals
- Why the Creative Destruction of Healthcare May Not Be Such a Good Idea
- Mixing Politics and Science Is Injurious to Public Health
- Silly Republican Insurance Reform Ideas
- Computer Security as an Exercise in Public Health
- Commentology: Actually, High-Tech Imaging Can Be High-Value Medicine
- The ACO Hypothesis: Farzad Mostashari Responds
- Can Hospitals Survive? Part II
- Med School: Can the Lecture!
- Checking the ACA’s Vital Signs
- Crowdsourcing the Kaiser Permanente Center For Total Health
- Patientgate: Why Patient Recordings Will Change Everything
- Misunderstanding Narrow Networks
- Congratulations, Doctor, On Your Federally-Subsidized “Hardship”
- The ACO Hypothesis: What We’re Learning
- Why You Should Care about the New Accreditation Agreement for Osteopaths
- The OpenNotes Toolkit
- The Open Notes Toolkit: Writing Fully Transparent Notes
- CareCloud CEO Albert Santalo Talks IPO and the EHR Market
- HIMSS Unplugged
- The Death of SGR Reform
- The Dangers Of Quality Improvement Overload
- “You Doctors These Days Just Want Us To Go off and Die …”
- What the Work of the Inspector General Tells Us about Patient Safety…
- Could Auto-Enrollment Be the Answer?
- Actually, High-Tech Imaging Can Be High-Value Medicine
- What Extending the Obamacare Cancelled Policy Moratorium Really Means
- The Medical Home’s Humpty Dumpty Defense
- Obamacare’s Payment Pilots Are Struggling To Prove They Work. Here’s Why It’s OK.
- CDC: Together We Can Provide Safer Patient Care
- Where There’s Vapor, Is There Fire? We Need Evidence on E-Cigarettes
- Primary Care 2.0: A Vision for a Transformative Solution
- Just a Flesh Wound
- How Reliable Are EMR Reviews, Anyway???
- On THCB This Week
- Why Everything You Know about Health Care in China Is Wrong
- Metrics: Surprisingly, People Who Were Uninsured Last Year Remain Undecided About the ACA
February 2014
- Clinic: A Cautionary Note About the Risks of Blood Pressure Treatment in the Elderly
- Transparency a Go Go?
- Medicare Advantage Round Two: Negotiation Will Not Be the Same
- The Legacy of the Tarceva Diva
- Amazon.com as a Delivery Model for Population Health
- How Mayo Clinic Is Using iPads to Empower Patients
- Reflecting on Health Reform–Narrow Networks: Boon or Bane?
- That Vitamin There Could Kill You
- HxRefactored: Win Complimentary Passes During HIMSS 2014!
- Doctors Without State Borders: Practicing Across State Lines
- What A Green Three Ring Binder Says About the State of Meaningful Use and Health Information Exchange
- Seven Reasons Why Your Doctor Is Still Using Technology That Sucks
- CVS Caremark Enters CommonWell
- Are Payors Changing What They Pay For Medical Billing Codes To Adjust For Supply and Demand?
- Can Oscar Succeed In Making Health Insurance Fun? Maybe Not Just Yet. But the Startup Is Shaking Things Up …
- Box & Dignity Health Name Five Semi-Finalists in Patient Education App Challenge
- What You Need to Know About Patient Matching and Your Privacy and What You Can Do About It
- In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs
- Do Workplace Wellness Programs Make Business Sense?
- Bigger Hospitals Mean Bigger Hospitals with Higher Prices. Not Better Care.
- I’m a Doctor. And This Stuff Even Confuses Me!!!
- Healthwise Adds Informed Medical Decisions: Don Kemper Interview
- The Weightlessness of Obamacare
- In Defense of the Defense of Mammograms
- How Much Is Health Care Worth?
- On THCB This Month …
- Medical Students: The Anti-Millionaires
- Conversa Wants to Fill the Gap
- Why Healthcare Should Be Worried About the Target Cyber Attacks
- New From THCB Press: Surviving Workplace Wellness
- Improving Clinical Document Exchange
- Ode to the Fat Man
- The Pharmacies and Retailers Say They’re In. Is the Blue Button Initiative About to Change Everything?
- PCMH Certification and Designing the Perfect Car
- Please Don’t Feed the Morons!!
- Is Obamacare Unraveling?
- Don’t Be Fooled, Prospects for Long-Term SGR Fix Still Dim
- Focusing on High-Impact Comparative Studies: Cardiovascular Disease in the Spotlight
- The Fine Print: In Which We Go over the SGR Fix Line by Line with a Yellow Highlighter
- Why the SGR Fix Won’t Work and Could Actually Make Things Worse
- Too Many American Physicians Or Too Few?
- Uber for Health Care?? Not So Much.
- What the New York Times Got Wrong about Medicare’s Innovation Center
- Is There Really a Physician Shortage?
- Google Glass: A Paradigm Shift in Assessing Procedure Competency?
- An Urgent Request
- Measuring What Matters for ACOs
- The Republican Alternative to Obamacare: Their Aversion to Fixing it May Prove to Be a Political Mistake
- Apple Said to Weigh Digital Health Play
- Washington Post Reports Thousands Waiting On Healthcare.gov Appeals
- Why Your A-fib Diagnosis May Not Be as Bad as You Think It Is
- After Months of Thought Senate Republicans Propose Obamacare Lite
January 2014
- Building for Providers? Proceed with Caution
- Matthew Holt Interviews PlushCare Founder Ryan McQuaid
- How Clinical Guidelines Can Fail Both Doctors and Patients
- Why Transparency Doesn’t Work.
- Unpacking the Wyden Chronic Care Bill
- Why Didn’t the President Mention the Latest Good News on Health Costs?
- What About the Poor?
- The Real Problem With Med Student Debt
- Could Digital Rights Management Solve Healthcare’s Data Crisis?
- IDESG Is a Glimpse of Our Digital Future
- The Flu Shot and a Patient’s Right to Choose
- The Black Box at the Center of Health Economics
- Good News! A Workplace Wellness Vendor Saying You’re Sick Means You’re Probably Healthy
- Prices Drop When Health Consumers Shop Around For Healthcare
- Are Death Spirals Real? Has Anybody Ever Seen One?
- The Conservative’s Faustian Fear
- Pilots with Hospitals, the Chicken or the Egg Problem
- MOOCs Ain’t Over. Till They’re Over …
- Some Predictions on How Medicare Will Release Physician Payment Data
- A Little Advice for Karen DeSalvo
- The ACA: When Insurance Isn’t Insurance
- Field Report from JP Morgan 2014
- Why Maintenance of Certification Will Make You a Better Doctor
- The Great ACO Debate: 2014 Edition
- Another Metric for Tracking Plan Successes
- The Uninsured Are Not Signing Up for Obamacare
- Survey Says: EHR Incentive Program Is on Track
- In Praise of Lisa Bonchek Adams, Breast Cancer Expert
- Fee for Service vs. Fee for Serving
- Dr. Aetna Will See You Now
- The People’s Hospital
- We Signed Up for a Plan in December. Now They Are Telling Us a Glitch Canceled Our Payment. What Do We Do?
- Providers, Trackers, & Money: What You Need to Know About Health 2.0
- New Data on ACA Enrollment Shows Problems in Many States
- To Buy Or Not to Buy
- Actually, I Love My EMR …
- Now I Have Insurance. But I Can’t Use It. What Am I Supposed to Do?
- In Search of a Really Usable PHR
- It’s the Ventilator’s Fault
- Let’s Decriminalize Our Health Records
- I am A Patient! My Voice Needs To Be Heard
- One Libertarian’s Dilemma: Genetic Testing or the FDA
- The Data Are Wrong. Our Patients Are Sicker!!!
- Gender Could Be as Big a Problem as Age for the Affordable Care Act
- Do You Care About My Health, Or Just Think I’m Gross? Be Honest.
- Will There Be An Obamacare Death Spiral in 2015? Probably Not.
- PepsiCo’s Wellness Program Falls Flat
- Actually, We’d Probably All Be Better Off With Our Health Records on Facebook
- Ten Health and Wellness Resolutions Not to Make in 2014
- Twelve Things We’re Pretty Sure We’ll See Happen In Health Care In 2014
- How Health Plan Risk Adjustment Models May Change Under the ACA
- Headlines You’ll See in 2014
- An Epic Fail for Massive Open Online Courses?