By THCB Staff The Health Care Blog’s Founder & CEO Matthew Holt today announced a policy of absolute transparency concerning the rash of “inappropriate relationships” apparently infecting the health care blogging community. Holt released this statement: I can categorically deny...
By ROB LAMBERTS I was happy when I looked at today’s schedule. Two husband and wife pairs were on my schedule, both of whom have been seeing me for over ten years. Their visits are comfortable for me; we talk...
By Matthew Holt In a decade when there are countless really, really important issues to investigate in health care, ProPublica took more than $400,000 and spent it on a rehash of a well known story. The story was about a...
CNN's John Roberts talked to Jim Green, Director, Planetary Science Division, about NASA's new efforts at finding and understanding life outside of Earth. The mission comes as Stephen Hawking warns that alien contact could be dangerous. The missions NASA plans to run aren't likely to result in dangerous alien contact. They are looking for tiny signs of life on the moons of planets in our solar system. Jim Green says Europa may be one of the most promising prospects, because it contains so much water. You can find out more about NASA's plans to search our solar system at solarsystem.nasa.gov. Take a look:
By PAUL LEVY Rob Weisman and Liz Kowalczyk report in today's Boston Globe that the US Justice Department is investigating possible antitrust violations against Partners Healthcare System, the dominant hospital and physician provider group in Massachusetts. The letter, obtained by...
By Maggie Mahar Summary: Short-term, at least, hospitals are winners. When it came to negotiating with reformers, they “got into the tent early,” and the reductions in Medicare increases that they accepted will be offset by an influx of paying...
By BOB WACHTER Until about 8 years ago, inspections by the Joint Commission (TJC) were predictable and fairly silly. Hospitals were given a couple of years' notice of the week that “The Joint” would be visiting. Everybody scurried around preparing...
By Matthew Holt One reporter changed the behavior of every health plan in California all by herself. Even before Tuesday's announcements, however, health insurers in California had all but stopped the number of policy cancellations, state records show. Last year,...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has released the image above. It was the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. The image was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's panoramic camera on March 8, 2004, one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission. NASA says the contrast in the panoramic camera image was increased two times to make Earth easier to see. You can see a larger image of the photograph here on Flickr.
By Matthew Holt Everyone's favorite Harvard Business School professor is back in the news. Those of you with long memories may remember that at THCB I’ve been a tad critical of Regina Herzlinger’s ideas, her presentation of said ideas and—resulting...
