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Health Care Blog, The | 20 minutes ago
How To: Break Bad Habits and Build Good Habits
Diet-Blog | 1 hour 29 minutes ago
Many of Diet Blog's readers - myself included - will have made various resolutions on January 1st. From past experience, I'm sure most of us know that those great intentions don't always last very long. Resolving to exercise more, lose weight, eat healthily and so on can lead to a constant uphill battle. If your lifestyle is naturally sedentary and...
The 5 Worst Fast Food Value Meals
Diet-Blog | 1 hour 29 minutes ago
A dollar meal might sound like a bargain, but is it worth the price for your health? Dietitians from The Cancer Project have taken a look at the high health cost of "value meals" at fast food restaurants, and have listed the five worst options. ...
Let's Reboot America's Health IT Conversation Part 2: Beyond EHRs
Health Care Blog, The | 2 hours 24 minutes ago
by DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER Yesterday we tried to put EHRs into perspective. They're important, and we can't effectively move health care forward without them. But they're only one of many important health IT functions. EHRs and health...
The demise of Medicare Health Support
Health Care Blog, The | 3 hours 44 minutes ago
By Matthew Holt I guess we knew it, but here s the confirmation in the analysis of the first 18 months from CMS. The summary: DM companies in Medicare Health Support enrolled healthier than average populations; they had limited to no...
Viciously Vladeck
Health Care Blog, The | 3 hours 56 minutes ago
The new Health Affairs is out and with it a lovely piece of vintage Vladeck. In a review of a new book on Medicare by old Brookings warhorse Henry Aaron and fast rising UT Longhorn star Jeanne Lambrew, Bruce Vladeck...
Cigarette taxes are bad for your health?
Healthcare Economist | 8 hours ago
Many economists and public plicy researchers have found that cigarette taxes reduce smoking. This means that cigarette taxes must be good for your health…right? A study by Baum (2009) claims that cigarette taxes may improve health, but not by as much as previously thought. The paper finds that increasing the cigarette tax decreases smoking, but decreased [...]
Healthcare Economist tops the charts
Healthcare Economist | 8 hours 25 minutes ago
The Healthcare Economist was ranked as one of the top 100 health policy blogs by the Health Tech’s Blog website.
The big Twitter Health care list
Health Care Blog, The | 9 hours 45 minutes ago
By Matthew Holt We're all on here somewhere.
Health IT On Obama Agenda
Health Affairs blog | 14 hours 1 minute ago
On Saturday, President-elect Barack Obama highlighted health information technology as part of his plan to improve the economy and health system. In his weekly address, Obama said: To save not only jobs, but money and lives, we will update and computerize our health care system to cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help reduce [...]
Podcast interview with Per Lofberg, chairman and CEO of Generation Health
Health business blog | 14 hours 29 minutes ago
Per Lofberg, former head of Medco and Merck Capital Ventures, is now chairman and CEO of Generation Health, a start-up health management company serving payers and employers in the emerging field of genetic testing utilization. In this interview, Per and I discuss the nature and timing of the opportunity, similarities and differences between Generation Health and [...]
Commentology
Health Care Blog, The | 14 hours 48 minutes ago
Rick Peters, commenting on John Halamka's post, the "Broken Window Effect" ... "Speaking of downtime - have you ever determined why your organization, mine, and virtually everyone in health care does routine scheduled system downtimes on Saturday nights? I understand...
The chronosynclastic infundibulum
Stayin' Alive | 17 hours 39 minutes ago
As Vonnegut fans know, that's the place where all possible opinions are true. My recent encounter with AIDS denialists, like an earlier (longer lasting and more intense) encounter I had here with creationists, has forced me to think a bit about the nature of knowledge, and why there are so many people out there who fervently believe stuff that I know damn well just isn't true. Obviously, they think the same about me, so I have to be able to show that there's a difference, that you, dear rea...
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Health Care Blog, The
Everything you wanted to know about the health care system. But were afraid to ask.
Health Affairs blog
An ongoing dialogue on health policy issues of concern to a diverse audience of interested readers.
Healthcare Economist
An unbiased look at today's health care issues
Stayin' Alive
Discussion of public health and health care policy, from a public health perspective.
Nurse Practitioner's Place, The
A nurse practitioner blog
Health business blog
Focusing on business issues in health care. Written by David E. Williams of MedPharma Partners
Diet-Blog
Dieting and Weight Loss - No More Big Fat Lies!
Trusted.MD
Health care blogging across all specialties