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The (Non) Profit Motive
On Corporate Medicine
Rebuilding The Medical Home: What Walgreens Surely Sees
Dennis Quaid takes on hospital errors
Happy Birthday, Viagra!
Entering Unfamiliar Territory
Ratings games
Medicare releases hospital patient satisfaction data
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The PHR and Privacy
Google and the Cleveland Clinic
Health 2.0 - An Uncompleted
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Drugs and Technology: SafeMed and Allscripts
A Second Life On
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The VA and Health IT a Model that Works
Quality, Cost & Connected Health
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RHIOs, physician messaging et al - the word from Axolotl's Ray Scott
Health Communities 2.0
HEALTH 2.0
People who need people use social media
Rating Doctors Like Restaurants
Health 2.1
UnitedHealth Customers Speak With their Feet, and it’s Time for Everyone to Listen
Four Big Trends
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Athena Health: The History
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In Defense of the VA
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A Patient In My Own Hospital
By PAUL LEVY
Why We Don‘t Have Enough Nurses (It's Not Low Wages)
By MAGGIE MAHAR
Free Market Healthcare, Fact or Fiction?
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Solving the market adoption problem
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A DIY approach to the Diabetes Epidemic
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Healthcare and the Long Tail
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Food Porn
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HEALTH REFORM
Business As Usual: California's Reform Proposal
Why Hillarycare Failed
Massachusetts Health Care Reform : The Canary in the Coal Mine
Clinton gets a little
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California's Healthcare Plan
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Wyden's Health Plan
Medicare and HSAs: Ready for their close ups
Sicko and Healthcare Reform
THE INDUSTRY
Practical Advice to Employers On Managing A Health Plan
The Myth of Health Care Consumerism
Rebuilding The Medical Home: What Walgreens Surely Sees
AthenaHealth causing trouble again
Interview with CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding
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Maverick pulls hospitals out of HMOs
PBMs: Caremark sneaking out at the top? with UPDATE
Does DM save money? The old chestnut rears its ugly head
Peter Rost's confessions of a healthcare hit man
Do Non-Profit Hospitals deserve their tax breaks?
Is Newer Better? It's a Coin-Toss
Price Negotiations Coming?
The Perpetual Health Care Crisis
PHYSICIANS
Concierge Medicine From
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Bad Medicine: How The AMA Undermined Primary Care in America
Pilots Use Checklists. Doctors Don't. Why Not?
Think Again: Payments to Doctors
An open letter to Harvard Medical School by Terry Bennett
A National Health Service
A Frank Exchange of views with David Gratzer
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The Great Balance Billing Scandal
Technology won't replace doctors -- and it won't cut costs
Concierge Medicine-Interview with Ed Goldman MDVIP
We need health cost containment before fixing the payment method
CYA Healthcare
Podcast with Brian Dieter CEO Purkinjie
Concierge Medicine From A Doctor’s Perspective
When is a Medical Error a Crime?
Why Aren’t More Students Applying To Medical School?
HEALTH PLANS
Three Inconvenient Truths: The Future of Health Plans in a Connected World
Kaiser Permanente's plan to cover all Californians
Patient Activism Using the Web
The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, And The Insurance Industry's Response
More Evidence that HDHPs work
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A DIY approach to the Diabetes Epidemic
By AMY TENDERICH
Google (Mapping) NYC Health Disparity
By MIKE CONNERY
Healthcare and the Long Tail
By JIM WALKER
Why HillaryCare Failed
By MATTHEW HOLT
Will Silicon Valley invade health care?
By ANDY KESSLER
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Can There Be Too Many Cures for Cancer?
By MAGGIE MAHAR
Controlling Health Care Costs From The Bottom Up
By MICHAEL MILLENSON
Reimbursements Sway Oncologists' Drug Choices
By GREG PAWELSKI
How To Easily Increase Access To Care
By ERIC NOVACK
Can Consumerism Save Health Care?
By BRIAN KLEPPER
Health On Demand
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Do non-profit hospitals deserve their tax breaks?
In defense of the VA system
Why consumer-driven health is not the answer
Merck's miracle vaccine
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