ON THCB

• The Doctor Is Happy (THCB)

  By Rob Lamberts, MD

• Medicine in Denial: What Larry Weed Can Teach Us About Patient Empowerment (THCB)

  By Leslie Kernisan, MD

• Is Technology Making Us Fat? (THCB)

  By Neil Jordan

• Hospitals’ Twenty First Century Time Warp (THCB)

  By Jeff Goldsmith

• From Boston to Oklahoma -Lessons for the Regional Trauma Response System (THCB)

  By Mashid Abir, MD & Stewart C. Wang, MD

• The Smartphone Physical (Tech, THCB)

  By Shiv Gaglani

• Bringing Back the House Call (Physicians, THCB)

  By Michael Fleming, MD

• THCB Marketplace: 2013 Tufts Health Communication Summer Institute (THCB)

  By THCB Marketplace

• If You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don’t Call a Capitalist

  By Michael L. Millenson

• Using Price Transparency Data Within the Hospital (THCB)

  By David Halpert, MD

INSIDE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

• When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Hospitals Pay the Price
• Wal-Mart Could Transform Care--But Does It Want To?
• Into the Extrapolation Machine
• The Rest of the Story About Hospital Pricing
• Doctors and the Means of Production

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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHRs)

• Hospitals' Twenty First Century Time Warp
• The DIY Electronic Medical Record
• Box Picking Up Where Google Health Left Off
• The Electronic Medical Record and the Patient Narrative
• The Email I Want to Send To Our Tech Guys But Keep Deleting...

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INSURANCE EXCHANGES

• A Health Insurance Exchange That Won't Be a "Train Wreck"
• Is the Suspension of the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan a Preview of Obamacare's Failure?
• The Affordable Care Act: Like It Or Not, It's Catalyzing a Golden Age In Health Care Investing
• The Arkansas Experiment: Is the 'Private Option' a Realistic Plan For Medicaid?
• Can We Put the Hospital Marketing Genie Back in the Bottle?

More posts: Health Insurance Exchanges HIEs HIE Insurance Exchanges

EMPLOYERS

• Caution: Wellness Programs May Be Hazardous to Your Health
• The HRA Hustle
• The Salad Bar That Turned Around a Fortune 500 Company ...
• Wellness Programs Aren't Working. Three Ideas That Could Help.
• How the Media Portrayed the CVS Wellness Program-and Got It Wrong

More posts: Employers Employees workplace wellness programs

MOBILE HEALTH

• mHealth: Is It a Market?
• The Doctor Will Sync You Now
• Physician Executives Should Not Ignore How Smartphones Will Transform Healthcare
• Health IT Future: A Tale of Three Watsons
• Where is there mHealth, really?

More posts: Mobile health mHealth Apps

ACOs

PRIMARY CARE

• The Doctor Is Happy
• The DIY Electronic Medical Record
• The Problem-Oriented Medical Record
• The Electronic Medical Record and the Patient Narrative
• The Extinction of the Primary Care Clinic Nurse

More posts: primary care primary care shortage

NURSING

• The Bounce Back Effect
• The Extinction of the Primary Care Clinic Nurse
• Not Knowing What You Don't Know
• My Patient's Keeper
• The Nursing Shortage Myth

More posts: Nursing Nurses mid-level providers

THE COSTS OF CARE

• Hospitals' Twenty First Century Time Warp
• Using Price Transparency Data Within the Hospital
• The Bounce Back Effect
• The Rest of the Story About Hospital Pricing
• Evidence That Health Does Not Equal Healthcare? Early Results From the Oregon Experiment Are In

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RATING YOUR DOCTOR

• Patient Power
• Finding a Good Doctor - A Doctor's Notes
• The Risk of Avoiding Social Media: Others Get to Say Who You Are
• The Patient Will Rate You Now
• The Emperor's New Social Network

More posts: Physician Ratings

QUALITY

• If You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don't Call a Capitalist
• When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Hospitals Pay the Price
• Wal-Mart Could Transform Care--But Does It Want To?
• How to Avoid Being a Chump For CEOs
• Could Opening Up the Doors to the World's Medical Research Save Healthcare?

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