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Health 2.0 Europe: Keynote Address by Pieter Vos and Jolyn van Vuuren

September 4th, 2010
By Bianca Grogan Pieter Vos, from the Council for Public Health and Health Care, gave a keynote address on stage at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference, April 6-7, 2010, in Paris, France. The Council for Public Health and Health Care...

Health 2.0 Europe: Seach and Content

September 4th, 2010
By Bianca Grogan At the Health 2.0 Europe Conference, April 6-7, 2010, in Paris France, a number of panelists gave live demonstrations in regards to search and content. They discussed the question of how to make content on the internet...

Beyond Meaningful Use: Three Five-Year Trends in the Uses of Patient Health Data and Clinical IT

September 3rd, 2010
By DAVID C. KIBBE & BRIAN KLEPPER Finally, we have a Final Rule on the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs. The rules and criteria are simpler and more flexible, and the measures easier to compute. But they are still...

Physician Quality Report Cards, Part II

September 2nd, 2010
By KENT BOTTLES, MD I am frankly surprised by the number of comments, emails, and telephone calls I have received about my doctor report card blog post. Some were charged with emotion and even anger. The number and tone of...

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September 2nd, 2010

Remembering the Tonsillectomy Riots

September 2nd, 2010
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The humble tonsillectomy has been at the center of controversies over practice variation, inappropriate surgery and avoidable harm for decades; indeed, well before the terms to describe those problems were formally articulated. Now, thanks to the recently...

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September 2nd, 2010

Health 2.0 Europe: Day One

September 1st, 2010
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September 1st, 2010

W(h)ither Insurers?

August 31st, 2010
By PAUL LEVY The talk around the country among health insurance companies is that their insurance business is dying. What is happening? First, the consolidations in other industries, resulting in large, multistate corporations, already mean that many companies self insure...