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A Call For a New Model For Generalist-Specialist Information Exchange
By Bob Wachter, MD Everybody hates curbside consults – the informal, “Hey, Joe, how would you treat asymptomatic pyuria in my 80-year-old nursing home patient?”-type questions that dominate those Doctor’s Lounge conversations that aren’t a...
Why You Probably Have a Lot Less to Fear From the Latest Superbug Than you Think
By COLIN SON, MD Infectious disease is the most hyperbolic of all medical fields, at least when the media gets ahold of such. Right now we are to fear a new avian influenza virus. Previously there was another avian influenza strain whose outbreak t...
The ACO Failure Hypothesis: Likely But Not Inevitable
By LES FUNTLEYDER We recently participated in a program at Columbia Business School’s Healthcare Program on whether ACOs (Accountable Care Organizations) will fail. For those of you that don’t know, ACOs are one of the structures promulgated by P...
By Rob Lamberts, MD It’s been a long time since I wrote a post. My life, you see, is incredibly dull and boring. There has been so little to write about that I’ve been at a loss. No, actually that’s a load of crap. It’s become a fantasy...
Earth to Washington: Repeal the Sequester
By Robert Reich Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. Most had forecast growth of at least 3 percent (on an annualized basis) in the first quarter. But we learned just recently (in the Commerce Department’s report) it grew only...
Caregiving at a Crossroads: New Models, New Opportunities
By Ping Hao Family Caregiver Alliance invites you to our 2nd Annual Leadership Think Tank Dinner, May 9th at 6pm in San Francisco. Family caregivers are the fabric upon which the health care system relies. Not surprisingly, the business and n...
Open Research For Open Cures: A Report From Sage Congress
By Andy Oram Over four years of Congresses, Sage Bionetworks has drawn together leading thinkers and doers throughout the fields of genetic research and drug development. For two days each year, the conference floor is colonized by clumps of eagerly...
By Vik Khanna Suppose one day you sit in front of your work computer, click on a link supplied by your employer, and set about the task of answering a hundred or more highly intrusive health questions. Setting aside the issue of financial penalties...
Caution: Wellness Programs May Be Hazardous to Your Health
By Al Lewis The exponential growth in wellness programs indicates that Corporate America believes that medicalizing the workplace, through paying employees to participate in health risk assessments (“HRAs”) and biometric screens, will reduce heal...
A Dangerous Distortion: Verizon’s Foray into Emergency Medical Services
By Jonathon Feit There’s always been difference between “truth” and “marketing truth,” the former being the more stringent of the two. The daily bombardment of media messaging plus occasional advertising extravaganzas...
Is the Suspension of the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan a Preview of Obamacare’s Failure?
By Matthew Wayt Following the Obama administration’s announcement about the suspension of enrollment in a high-risk health insurance program known as the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, a flurry of commentary began on what the move mean...
What Does HIPAA Have to Do With Gun Control? Maybe More Than You Think.
By Adrianna McIntyre There aren’t many who would quibble with an argument that those with severe mental illness—specifically, individuals “who have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution, found incompetent to stand trial or not gu...
How Physician Practices Can Prepare for a Health Care Marketplace
By Brian Klepper What is the path forward for physicians who want to remain in private practice, outside the constraints of health system employment? How will the environment change and what new demands will that place on practices and physicians? Wh...
TEDMED 2013: Google Health’s Roni Zeiger Is Back With a Cool, New Startup
The Email I Want to Send To Our Tech Guys But Keep Deleting…
By Shirie Leng, MD Dear Tech Guys: So today I’m doing anesthesia for colonoscopies and upper GI scopes. Nowadays we have three board-certified anesthesiologists doing anesthesia for GI procedures every single day at my institution. I’ll...
The Extinction of the Primary Care Clinic Nurse
By Jaan Sidorov, MD The Passenger Pigeon. The Dodo bird. The primary care clinic nurse. All are extinct, driven out existence by a changing habitat, competition and over-hunting. Ask the average person when they’ve last seen these species a...
Do Our Cells Have Their Own IP Address Yet?
By Ali Ansary In the future, implanted chips will have the ability to stop food absorption when caloric intake reaches 2200. Cells in our forearm will be able to monitor our glucose levels and adjust our insulin appropriately. These implantable cells...
“Did You Take Care of Tsarnaev?”
By Shirie Leng, MD I am affiliated with the institution where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently hospitalized. I am friends with people who have treated him. I’m trying to stay away from those people; I would be unable to help asking them about him...
The Salad Bar That Turned Around a Fortune 500 Company …
By Vik Khanna “The Effect of Price Reduction on Salad Bar Purchases at a Corporate Cafeteria.” An excellent peek at the kind of steps that employers ought to take to improve eating habits in their work forces: subsidize the purchase of he...
How to Deliver Patient-Centered Care: Learn from Service Industries
By Brian Powers, Amol Navathe, MD & Sachin Jain, MD Over the past decade, patient-centered care has become a mantra for high-quality health care. Policymakers, researchers, physician-leaders, and patients have all cited the need for care to be t...
The Extinction of the Primary Care Clinic Nurse
By Jaan Sidorov, MD The Passenger Pigeon. The Dodo bird. The primary care clinic nurse. All are extinct, driven out existence by a changing habitat, competition and over-hunting. Ask the average person when they’ve last seen these species a...
By Paul Levy, MD Several months ago, I wrote a blog post comparing customers’ experience with Epic with the Stockholm Syndrome. I reminded people of the syndrome: Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hosta...
Is Patient Engagement the Solution…or a Healthcare Urban Legend? (30) By Al Lewis If you want to repair a seriously broken healthcare system, the thinking goes, you need to get at the root of the problem. And chronic disease is one of the best...
The Arkansas Experiment: Is the ‘Private Option’ a Realistic Plan For Medicaid?
By Naomi Freundlich Arkansas is now the first state to use Medicaid expansion dollars to buy private coverage for many of its 250,000 newly eligible residents rather than enroll them in the existing Medicaid program. This week the Arkansas House of...
By David Overton I have two sons, both healthy happy boys, both brought into this world in very different ways. I work in healthcare and like many readers of THCB, the business of healthcare is often viewed through the business lens. When we beco...
