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Bipartisan Support for More Provider Health IT

There’s a place for healthy partisan differences, and a place for bipartisanship. This initiative goes into the latter category. Whether you’re a free-market radical, a single-payer advocate, or...

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Global Warming And Individual Health

Add the fight against global warming to the list of political battles that impact the health arena.  A long-term study of global warming’s impact on medical needs was conducted by Australian...

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Health Information Online: New & Interesting Developments

People keep trying to provide comparative cost information that health “consumers” can use to make their treatment decisions. Many of us have predicted that someone would try to be the Travelocity of...

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Are We Asking the Wrong Questions About Disease Management and Medicare?

A recent study suggests that Medicare’s Disease Management (DM) experiment has failed to cut medical costs. DM advocates argue that Medicare’s methodology was flawed. So what’s the answer? A New York...

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Stop Thief!

A Harris Interactive poll suggests that public awareness of health privacy concerns is on the rise, according to a report in Modern Healthcare.  The poll is described as an “online interactive”...

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Plan for Uninsured in Florida Goes South (plus, Defending My Opponents)

This is one of the most predictable health insurance stories we’ve seen so far in 2008: A report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit policy research group in Washington, D.C.,...

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Bail Them Out? Why Not Take Over Their Healthcare Instead?

The auto industry bailout is stalled. Opponents can’t seem decide what’s most objectionable: the lack of punishment for bad planning, or the idea that taxpayer money is being used to pay decent wages....

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It’s More Than an Electronic Health Record — Call It a “Health Information...

(cross-posted at The Huffington Post) The stimulus package includes a great deal of money for healthcare information technology, or health IT. Much of this funding is directed toward “wiring” doctors...

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Health Noir: $10 Million Ransom Demand for Data – and Stranger Crimes Are Coming

(originally written for The Huffington Post) “Attention, Virginia!” the ransom note begins. “I have your shit! In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087...

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Could Doctors Go the Way of Record Companies?

Those of us who follow health care may be overlooking the big picture. Most of the profound (and sometimes disruptive) changes of the last half century – computers, the Internet, social networks –...

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