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• 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
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• 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.
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• A Detailed Analysis of Barack Obama's Health Care Reform Plan
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• 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
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• 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

• 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 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
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• 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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