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The demise of Medicare Health Support
Health Care Blog, The | 32 minutes ago
By Matthew Holt I guess we knew it, but here s the confirmation in the analysis of the first 18 months from CMS. The summary: DM companies in Medicare Health Support enrolled healthier than average populations; they had limited to no...
Viciously Vladeck
Health Care Blog, The | 44 minutes ago
The new Health Affairs is out and with it a lovely piece of vintage Vladeck. In a review of a new book on Medicare by old Brookings warhorse Henry Aaron and fast rising UT Longhorn star Jeanne Lambrew, Bruce Vladeck...
Cigarette taxes are bad for your health?
Healthcare Economist | 4 hours 48 minutes ago
Many economists and public plicy researchers have found that cigarette taxes reduce smoking. This means that cigarette taxes must be good for your health…right? A study by Baum (2009) claims that cigarette taxes may improve health, but not by as much as previously thought. The paper finds that increasing the cigarette tax decreases smoking, but decreased [...]
Healthcare Economist tops the charts
Healthcare Economist | 5 hours 13 minutes ago
The Healthcare Economist was ranked as one of the top 100 health policy blogs by the Health Tech’s Blog website.
The big Twitter Health care list
Health Care Blog, The | 6 hours 33 minutes ago
By Matthew Holt We're all on here somewhere.
Health IT On Obama Agenda
Health Affairs blog | 10 hours 49 minutes ago
On Saturday, President-elect Barack Obama highlighted health information technology as part of his plan to improve the economy and health system. In his weekly address, Obama said: To save not only jobs, but money and lives, we will update and computerize our health care system to cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help reduce [...]
Podcast interview with Per Lofberg, chairman and CEO of Generation Health
Health business blog | 11 hours 17 minutes ago
Per Lofberg, former head of Medco and Merck Capital Ventures, is now chairman and CEO of Generation Health, a start-up health management company serving payers and employers in the emerging field of genetic testing utilization. In this interview, Per and I discuss the nature and timing of the opportunity, similarities and differences between Generation Health and [...]
Commentology
Health Care Blog, The | 11 hours 36 minutes ago
Rick Peters, commenting on John Halamka's post, the "Broken Window Effect" ... "Speaking of downtime - have you ever determined why your organization, mine, and virtually everyone in health care does routine scheduled system downtimes on Saturday nights? I understand...
The chronosynclastic infundibulum
Stayin' Alive | 14 hours 27 minutes ago
As Vonnegut fans know, that's the place where all possible opinions are true. My recent encounter with AIDS denialists, like an earlier (longer lasting and more intense) encounter I had here with creationists, has forced me to think a bit about the nature of knowledge, and why there are so many people out there who fervently believe stuff that I know damn well just isn't true. Obviously, they think the same about me, so I have to be able to show that there's a difference, that you, dear rea...
28 Tainted Weight Loss Pills
Diet-Blog | 22 hours 45 minutes ago
The FDA recently issued a warning about a number of tainted diet supplements. Many of the products claim to be "natural" or contain only "herbal" ingredients - but actually contain pharmaceutical ingredients. An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a controlled substance), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in...
Obese Men and Fertility...
Diet-Blog | 23 hours 3 minutes ago
Flickr: BlyzzNo guy likes talking about the health of their man parts. If it wasn't for the commercialization of prostate cancer screenings, most men wouldn't even know they have a prostate. But, despite the awkwardness, let's talk sperm! Researchers have determined obese men have lower sperm counts and lower quality sperm than leaner men. ...
Let's Reboot America's HIT Conversation Part 1: Putting EHRs in Context
Health Care Blog, The | 23 hours 9 minutes ago
By DAVID C. KIBBE & BRIAN KLEPPER Kibbe & Klepper are back with an update to their pre-Christmas piece on EHRs and the forthcoming Obama Administration's investment policy towards them. Lest you think that this is just a small group...
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Health Care Blog, The
Everything you wanted to know about the health care system. But were afraid to ask.
Health Affairs blog
An ongoing dialogue on health policy issues of concern to a diverse audience of interested readers.
Healthcare Economist
An unbiased look at today's health care issues
Stayin' Alive
Discussion of public health and health care policy, from a public health perspective.
Nurse Practitioner's Place, The
A nurse practitioner blog
Health business blog
Focusing on business issues in health care. Written by David E. Williams of MedPharma Partners
Diet-Blog
Dieting and Weight Loss - No More Big Fat Lies!
Trusted.MD
Health care blogging across all specialties