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Certifying Health IT: Let's Set the (Electronic Health) Record StraightMay 26, 2009
The Stimulus bill catapulted health IT – previously the domain of clinicians with a passion for applying technology to improve healthcare – onto the national stage. When you...
Beyond WikipediaMay 23, 2009
No surprise, these days more and more doctors are searching online for medical information. What is surprising, however, is that in a recent study, nearly 50% of physicians...
UPDATE from the FRESH-Thinking Capstone ConferenceMay 15, 2009
By TEAL PENNEBAKER In the same week that the Obama Administration has stated its commitment to overhauling the health care system, the FRESH-Thinking Capstone Conference adjourned yesterday...
Op-Ed: Cost-Reduction Strategies Help Hospitals Weather Economic UncertaintyMay 6, 2009
In today’s current economic climate, many hospitals are reducing staff to cut costs and balance their budgets. An even greater number are trying to reduce administrative costs...
Of Healthcare and ToiletsMay 4, 2009
“Any system produces exactly the results it was designed to produce,†or so goes the saying. If we don’t like the results we get, we need to re-examine the system and not...
The Leaning Tower of Jello: Why No-one Believes Health Reform will be Deficit NeutralDec 1, 2009
By JEFF GOLDSMITH President Obama has promised not to sign any health reform legislation that increases the federal deficit. This promise recognized rising public concern about an Argentinean fiscal trend that, unchecked, could leave us with $19...
Death by a Thousand CutsDec 1, 2009
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report today saying that if the Reid bill becomes law, the price of non group policies would be about 10 percent to 13 percent higher in 2016 than it would...
Paul Starr agrees with me (or I steal from him--take your pick)Dec 1, 2009
By Matthew Holt Paul Starr and I have been agreeing a lot lately. Not that Paul knows or cares what I think or say, but a while back we both expressed fear that private health plans will end up channeling...
Spotlight on Health 2.0: Consumer Aggregators from SF '09Nov 30, 2009
Every week we bring you a video from the world of Health 2.0. This week we're featuring a video from our latest conference in San Francisco on October 6-7, 2009. Hear the latest from WebMD, Google Health and Microsoft. To...
The Leaning Tower of Jello: Why No-one Believes Health Reform will be Deficit NeutralNov 30, 2009
By JEFF GOLDSMITH President Obama has promised not to sign any health reform legislation that increases the federal deficit. This promise recognized rising public concern about an Argentinean fiscal trend that, unchecked, could leave us with $19...
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