<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>The Health Care Blog</title>
	<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com</link>
	<description>The Health Care Blog</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:02:08 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.1.3" -->

	<item>
		<title>Should the States Set Up ObamaCare Exchanges?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Goodman &#38; Linda Gorman Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), state governments are expected to set up health insurance exchanges through which individuals will buy their own health insurance, in many cases with substantial subsidies. Should the states comply? In the following point-counterpoint discussion, Linda Gorman and I give opposing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/24/should-the-states-set-up-obamacare-exchanges/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Save the Country with Preventive Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Flower We are entering the season of presidential politics, of bunting and cries of “What about the children?” and star-spangled appeals to full-throated patriotism. So here’s mine: Do you count yourself a patriot? Do you care about the future of this country? (And while we are at it, the future of your hospital.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/23/save-the-country-with-preventive-care/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Crafting a Social Media Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Halamka, MD Today&#8217;s Computerworld has a great article about the issues of mixing social media and healthcare. As hospitals and clinics formulate social networking policies, there are three broad considerations. 1.  Given HIPAA and HITECH privacy and breach rules, how can you best prevent the disclosure of protected healthcare information on insecure social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/23/crafting-a-social-media-policy/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Medicare Advantage Star Ratings: Detaching Pay from Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Douglas Holtz-Eakin Rewarding quality health plans is an admirable goal for the Medicare Advantage program. Unfortunately, the current system of linking star ratings to bonus payments and rebate adjustments instituted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (and expanded by the CMS Quality Bonus Payment Demonstration) fails to achieve that goal, and depending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/23/medicare-advantage-star-ratings-detaching-pay-from-performance/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>USPSTF – It’s About Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Merrill Goozner The numbers are stark. According to the United States Preventive Services Task Force, for every man whose death from prostate cancer is prevented through PSA screening, 40 become impotent or suffer incontinence problems, two have heart attacks and one a blood clot. Then there’s the psychological harm of a “false positive” test [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/23/uspstf-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-about/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Gregory House, MD, RIP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Wachter, MD Dr. Gregory House hung up his stethoscope and cane for the last time last night and shuffled off into eternal life in the Land of Reruns. House — the brilliant, misanthropic, drug addicted, my-way-or-the-highway physician — has been an entertaining presence on FOX television for the past eight years. I enjoyed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/22/gregory-house-md-rip/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Sex Sells (or at Least Leads to Some Interesting Analytics)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Moore One guarantee in the healthcare sector is that when it comes to personal health information (PHI), there is no lack of issues and pundits to discuss security and privacy of such information/data. If one does not jump up and down bleating on about the sanctity of PHI and the need to protect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/21/sex-sells-or-at-least-leads-to-some-interesting%c2%a0analytics/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>New York Digital Health Accelerator: Last Call for Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew Holt &#38; Austin Cohen Just recently, the New York eHealth Collaborative and the New York City Investment Fund held an awesome information session for the New York Digital Health Accelerator at the chic digs of the TimesCenter in NYC. The Accelerator is a program for early — and growth — stage digital health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/21/new-york-digital-health-accelerator-last-call-for-applications/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Facebook-ACO-Military-Industrial Complex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jaan Sidorov, MD Investors just ponied up well over $100 billion for a piece of the social media giant Facebook. While Mr. Zuckerberg and his co-founders deserve a hearty congratulations, I find some eerie parallels between Facebook and accountable care organizations.  The similarity does not bode well for either business model. 1. The users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/21/be-forewarned-the-facebook-aco-military-industrial-complex-is-coming/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>How Bad Is Azithromycin&#8217;s Cardiovascular Risk?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Wes The paper from the New England Journal of Medicine that reports azithromycin might cause cardiovascular death is not new to electrophysiologists tasked with deciding antibiotic choices in patients with Long QT syndrome or in those who take other antiarrhythmic drugs.   Heck, even the useful Arizona CERT QTDrugs.org website could have told us that. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/05/21/how-bad-is-azithromycins-cardiovascular-risk/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

