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Innovation + Economics: Keys to Successful Healthcare Reform
An Open Letter to the New National Coordinator for Health IT
Reforming Long-Term Care and Post-Acute Care Could Save Billions
TECH
A Healthcare IT Primer
Why Clinical Groupware May Be the Next Big Thing in Health IT
A Shared Vision and Roadmap for Health IT
Cats and Dogs: Can We Find Unity in Health IT Change?
It's the Platform, Stupid
Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion
Should Health Care Standards be Open Source?
PODCAST: Three Health 2.0 Execs talk about their business
The Technology Hype Cycle
The VA and Health IT
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CONTRIBUTORS
How to Read Articles About Health and Health care
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Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion
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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
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
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PHYSICIANS
How to Win Docs and
Influence Patients
The Doctor Is Logged On
The End of Dr. Marcus Welby
When docs opt out
Medicine's Missing Foundation for Health Care Reform
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
Rating MD rating sites
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NURSES
No Need for Alarm over Foreign Nurses
Schwarzenegger Fires Nursing Board
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
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HEALTH PLANS
A Broker's Lament: We Brought This On Ourselves
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
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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