ON THCB

• Crafting a Social Media Policy (Tech)

  By John Halamka, MD

• Medicare Advantage Star Ratings: Detaching Pay from Performance

  By Douglas Holtz-Eakin

• USPSTF – It’s About Time

  By Merrill Goozner

• Gregory House, MD, RIP (Hospitals)

  By Robert Wachter, MD

• Sex Sells (or at Least Leads to Some Interesting Analytics) (Tech)

  By John Moore

• New York Digital Health Accelerator: Last Call for Applications (Health 2.0)

  By Matthew Holt & Austin Cohen

• The Facebook-ACO-Military-Industrial Complex (Superhealthanomics, The Business of Health Care)

  By Jaan Sidorov, MD

• How Bad Is Azithromycin’s Cardiovascular Risk? (Pharma)

  By Dr. Wes

• Z-Packing (Pharma)

  By Rob Lamberts, MD

• FOO For Thought (Tech)

  By Marya Zilberberg, MD

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OP ED

• Zen and the Art of Not Thinking Magically
• Is There a Republican Alternative to ObamaCare?
• What If We End Up with a Health Care System Like the One they Have In New Jersey?
• The HMO in Your Future
• ACOs and the Looming Antitrust Crisis

THE INSIDERS GUIDE TO HEALTH CARE

• Shame
• The Lesion's Curse
• Zen and the Art of Not Thinking Magically
• Our Cancer Journey
• DSM 5 Finally Begins Its Belated and Necessary Retreat

More posts: The Insider's Guide To Health Care

INSIDE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

• Medicare Advantage Star Ratings: Detaching Pay from Performance
• USPSTF – It’s About Time
• Pete Seeger's Blues
• Even Aetna CEO Admits: We're Toast
• Inoculate the Budget Deficit From Healthcare Reform

APP CENTRAL

• Pills Still Matter
• mHealth Apps & Patient Engagement – Moving Beyond Transactions
• Is mHealth Just Another Gimmick?
• Why This Well-Known Biotech Firm Deploys 17,000 iPads and iPhones
• Are Health Apps the Cure for Anything That Ails You?

• The Health 2.0 Show, January 2010
• 2009 Homeless Gift Guide
• THCB is Proudly Sponsored By
• Some conversations are easier than others
• Spotlight on Health 2.0: David Kibbe's Motorcycle Tour

MED SCHOOL

• When Practicing on Patients Can Have Real Consequences
• So it Turns Out that Lots and Lots of People Still Want to Be Doctors
• Medical Students Want You to Know
• Tweaking Medical Education to Leverage EHRs
• Impact of EHRs on Medical Education

RATING YOUR DOCTOR

• Fixing The Failure At Physician Compare
• Rating the Raters: Physician Compare
• Physician Report Cards: Don’t Shoot the Messenger
• Not all Ratings Are Equal: Part II
• Trust Me I'm a Doctor vs. Physician Quality Report Cards

SMART MEDICINE

• Making Privacy Policies Not Suck
• Zen and the Art of Not Thinking Magically
• Drug Data Shouldn’t Be Secret
• Slow Medicine
• Hospitals or Health Plans: Who Do You Trust to “Connect” You with Your Health Records?

THE BUSINESS OF MEDICINE

• June: A Big Month For ACO Watchers
• Consumer-Driven Medicine’s Fatal Flaw
• Another Look at Health Insurance Exchanges
• On Being Gay In Medicine
• The Coming Boom for Hospital Chains – and Bust for Non-Profits

HEALTH / WELLNESS

• TEDMED 2012: Atul Butte
• Shame
• Our Cancer Journey
• Doctor Versus Doctor
• Rethinking Cancer Guidelines

MOBILE, MOBILE

• Wireless Big Data in the Cloud
• mHealth Apps & Patient Engagement – Moving Beyond Transactions
• Infographic: The Future of Healthcare
• Is mHealth Just Another Gimmick?

THE COSTS OF CARE

• Side Effects May Include Financial Ruin
• The Letterman Approach to Cost Awareness
• Treating Heart Failure on a $100 Budget
• Teaching Residents about Costs: The Price is Right
• Crowd-sourcing Medical Bills

THE DOCTOR IS IN (AND EXTREMELY ANNOYED)

• What if We Regulated Legal Services Like Health Care?
• Minders of the Gap
• How Doctors Are Trapped
• Obituary: RIP to the EHR
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (EHR) Bomb

BOOTCAMP FOR PATIENTS

• Gregory House, MD, RIP
• How to Get Better at Harming People Less
• A Safety Checklist for Patients
• How Many More Dead Patients?
• Is a New Federal Patient Safety Effort Doing Enough to Curb Medical Errors?

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH

• FDA Should Add a Comparative Effectiveness Arm to Final Trials
• Heart Failure or System Failure?
• More Can Also Be Less: We need a more complete public discussion about comparative effectiveness research
• HIT Trends Summary for October 2010
• How Come Comparative Effectiveness Research is All the Rage?

HEALTH 2.0

• Crafting a Social Media Policy
• Digital Diet
• Pharma, Social Media & Common Sense
• Health Reform: Still the Best-Covered Social Policy Story, Ever.
• The Risk of Avoiding Social Media: Others Get to Say Who You Are

THE 2012 ELECTION

• The Great Experiment
• The Psychology of the ObamaCare Debate
• How Obama Botched and Bungled the Health Reform Message
• Dispatch from Washington
• If the Supreme Court Kills ObamaCare, Should We Thank Mitt Romney?

More posts: 2012 Election

INTERNATIONAL

• No Panacea for China's Healthcare Reform
• Healthy Competition
• The Awkward World of Private Insurance in the UK
• The British Primary Care System and Its Lessons for America
• Inside the NHS Reform Fight

HEALTH PLANS

• What Good are Health Insurers?
• The Laboratory of Democracy
• Watch Insurance Premiums Soar
• It's Easier to Beat Up the Insurers
• Myths and Facts About Health Reform

NURSING

• Nursing Shortage: Is it a Case of Crying Wolf?
• I Wish We Were Less Patient
• Nurse Staffing, Patient Mortality, And a Lady Named Louise
• Nurses: Protocol -ed to Extinction?
• Physicians, Nurses and the Coming Transformation of our Health System

THE iPAD

• Why This Well-Known Biotech Firm Deploys 17,000 iPads and iPhones
• How Healthcare's Embrace of Mobility has Turned Dangerous
• What the Healthcare Industry Can Learn From Technology Start-Ups
• Overestimating Consumer Demand for Health Care Technology
• Are Health Apps the Cure for Anything That Ails You?

More posts: IPad

STARTUPS

• New York Digital Health Accelerator: Last Call for Applications
• Activist Seeds - The Latest, Subtle Trend in Seed Investing
• Breaking Down the Process of Innovation: The Value of Community
• Will the ONC provide a huge stimulus to Health 2.0 startups?
• The Bar Has Gotten Higher

More posts: startups

THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE

• The Psychology of the ObamaCare Debate
• A Response to Critics on the Founding Fathers and Health Insurance Mandates
• If the Supreme Court Kills ObamaCare, Should We Thank Mitt Romney?
• What to Do on the Day After ObamaCare
• The Supreme Court on Moral Hazard

More posts: Individual mandate