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Cavalcade of Risk is up at the AMAXX blog by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival is hosted at the AMAXX blog. Read on »

Low teen birth rates: Another plus for Massachusetts by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Boston Globe published a graph showing that Massachusetts’ birth rate for mothers aged 15-19 is 17.1 per thousand compared with a nationwide average of 34.2. They didn ... Read on »

The still-early state of online doctor reviews by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine A front-page Boston Globe article on a neurosurgeon suing a caregiver for a harsh blog post is exciting but unrepresentative of the overall state of online doctor review ... Read on »

Blog migration update by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As expected, the migration to a new blogging host described last week is proving more difficult than expected. I’m planning to resume blogging on the old platform late ... Read on »

Health Business Blog is migrating… by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Health Business Blog is getting a facelift. Over the next few days we’ll be migrating the blog to a new hosting platform and updating its look and feel. Once we’re don ... Read on »

Don’t worry, ObamaCare won’t kill 99 cent value meals by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Fast food chains, which employ many low-income, uninsured adults, have been worried that the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka ObamaCare next year w ... Read on »

Should we die like doctors do? by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Saturday Evening Post has published a provocative article ( How Doctors Die ) by retired physician Ken Murray, making a strong case that over-treatment is rampant at t ... Read on »

Healthcare Social Media Review is up by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The latest edition of the Healthcare Social Media Review is hosted today by Colorado Health Insurance Insider. Read on »

Happy Passover by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine No blog post today. Read on »

Who’s in the dark about complementary therapies? by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When I saw the MedPage Today headline, “ Study: Docs in dark about complementary therapies ” I assumed it meant that doctors didn’t understand these therapies. But the sto ... Read on »

Transforming Health Care. Interview with Kaiser CIO Phil Fasano by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Earlier this month at the HIMSS conference in New Orleans I sat down with Phil Fasano, SVP and CIO of Kaiser Permanente to discuss his new book, Transforming Health Care: ... Read on »

Rehab: A great role for robots by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine From FierceHealth IT ( Stroke patient makes gains in speech, physical therapy with robot ) Researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are touting success in ... Read on »

Cavalcade of Risk is up by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The latest Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival is posted at My Personal Finance Journey. It’s a clear and compact edition focusing mainly on health care related risks. Read on »

Hacking the hackers by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It’s probably impolite and childish of me, but my first reaction when I read about Chinese hackers breaking into US health care organizations was that this may be the pois ... Read on »

API Healthcare CEO discusses workforce management (transcript) by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is the transcript of my recent podcast with J.P. Fingado of API Healthcare. David Williams: This is David E. Williams from the Health Business Group . I’m speak ... Read on »

Choosing better, US style by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Short White Coat blogger Ishani Ganguli marvels at a frank UK ad (advert?) discouraging people with non-serious illnesses or conditions from clogging up the emergency ro ... Read on »

A more positive outlook on provider consolidation by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine You should read Dr. Scott Gottlieb’s ( The Doctor Won’t See You Now. He’s Clocked Out ) opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. He argues that ObamaCare is making indepe ... Read on »

Health Wonk Review: A lot to chew on by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It’s the golden era for health wonks. Affordable Care Act implementation is proceeding apace while opponents keep up their attempts to maim it, Steven Brill’s article on m ... Read on »

Social media and doctors: Q&A with Doximity CEO Jeff Tangney by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Online doctor/patient relationships is the new frontier in social media. A report earlier this year discussed how medical boards would respond to different sorts of potent ... Read on »

Facility fees for office visits: What is the role of health plans? by David W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Yesterday’s Boston Globe article ( Hospital charges bring a backlash ) was spot on. Reporter Liz Kowalczyk nailed the topic: Hospitals are adding facility fees in t ... Read on »

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