September 04, 2008
Health Wonk Review
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- THE Op-Ed PAGE
- Innovation + Economics: Keys to Successful Healthcare Reform
- An Open Letter to the New National Coordinator for Health IT
- Leave it to Darwin
- Connecting Value to Coverage: A First Glimpse
- Health care reform is within reach
- Reforming Long-Term Care and Post-Acute Care Could Save Billions
- Pharma vs. Devices – FDA, Supreme Court and Liability Whiplash
- Pathway for FOBs Should Balance Need for Competition and Need for Innovation
- Dropping Cancer Death Rates and the Role of Radiation Therapy
- No Need for Alarm Over Foreign Nurses
- THE TRANSITION
- Fear and Loathing Over the Stimulus Bill
- Is Massachusetts a
model for national reform? - The Biggest Health Care Controversy on the Hill
- Why and How Secretary Sebelius Should Avoid a Network Monopoly
- Best $20 billion you'll ever spend
- The New Landscape of the Health Reform Debate
- The Case for Ron Wyden
- Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General? Not So Fast.
- Lundberg for Surgeon General
- A Detailed Analysis of Barack Obama's Health Care Reform Plan
- The Importance of Being Charles Grassley
- The Next President's Health Agenda
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- TECH
- Low Tech Ways to Improve Patient Care: Sleep and Manners
- The VA and Health IT
- Should Health Care Standards be Open Source?
- Bluementhal is new health IT czar
- A Healthcare IT Primer
- Why Clinical Groupware May Be the Next Big Thing in Health IT
- Stimulus Bill Offers Incentives but Demands Effective Use
- A Shared Vision and Roadmap for Health IT
- Cats and Dogs: Can We Find Unity in Health IT Change?
- An Open Letter to the Obama Health Team
- It's the Platform, Stupid
- Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion
- EMRs and Obama's Economic
recovery plan - Next Steps for Interoperability
- PODCAST: Three Health 2.0 Execs talk about their business
- Rating MD rating sites
- The Technology Hype Cycle
- A Transparent Health Record
- The truth about Health IT Standards
- PODCAST: Interview with Cisco's healthcare brain trust
- Health Care, IT, And Why Your Doc May Be Stuck In The 90s....the 1890s Talk at PARC [iPOD/MP3]
- A Conversation with Girish Kumar, CEO eClinicalWorks
- The VA and Health IT a Model that Works
- Health Communities 2.0
- CONTRIBUTORS
- How to Read Articles About Health and Health care
By ALICIA WHITE - Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion
By DAVID KIBBE -
- Breakfast of Champions
By BRIAN KLEPPER- Wikipedia Must Die
By CRAIG STOLTZ- Personalized medicine: Back to the future
By SCOTT SHREEVE- The New Science of Vascular Disease By WILLIAM BESTERMANN MD
- A broad vision for Health 2.0
By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN- Can you mandate people to buy insurance?
By ROBERT LASZEWSKI - Breakfast of Champions
- THE INDUSTRY
- Consumers Need All of the Facts in the Privacy Debate
- Saving Medicare Advantage the Easy Way
- CEOs' Urgent Commitment to Change
- The Siren Song of Public Programs
- Small Business and Health Reform
- The Greatest Healthcare IT Generation
- A Tale of Two Pilots
- Open Wide: Here Comes the Change You Never Thought Would Happen
- Embracing Palliative Care
- 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
- 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
- How to Win Docs and
Influence Patients - The End of Dr. Marcus Welby
- When docs opt out
- Medicine's Missing Foundation for Health Care Reform
- Concierge Medicine From
a Physician's Perspective - 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
- 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?
- NURSES
- Let's Pay Nurses Minimum Wage
- Disruptive Physician Behavior
- Communication 101: Shedding power imbalances
- Wisdom for future nurses
- Why don't we have enough nurses?
- The nursing shortage
- Benign neglect of the nursing shortage
- HEALTH PLANS
- A Broker's Lament: We Brought This On Ourselves
- Consumer Driven Plans Promise and Performance
- Managed care roller coaster
- Narrow Networks
- So What's the Real Usual, Customary and Reasonable Price of Care?
- Will CIGNA Remake The Health Plan Marketplace?
- Next Generation Healthcare Analytics
- 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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- MOVING UP
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- 3. Catalyzing the app store for EHRs
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