The Founding Fathers Write a Grant Proposal
By Jan Masaoka “Just look at this second sentence!” groaned Samuel Adams. “‘We hold these truths to be self-evident . .’ This flies in the face of ‘evidence-based practice’! We’ll never get funded!”...
View ArticleObamacare In Pictures
By J.D. KLEINKE A seasoned colleague recently told me that some PowerPoint presentations have no power and make no point. But sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. Or maybe — in the...
View ArticleSeven Policy Recommendations for Healthcare’s New Era
Berenson, Pronovost & Krumholz There is a consensus that measuring performance can be instrumental in improving value in U.S. health care. In particular clinical areas, such as cardiac and...
View ArticleA Time For Revolutionary Thinking
By JOHN HAUGHOM, MD We need to design a system of health care that optimally meets the country’s needs while also being affordable and socially acceptable. Clinicians should be at the center of this...
View ArticleCats & Dogs: Can We Find Unity on Health Care IT Change?
By MATTHEW HOLT Today we have a humming economy and insane politics. In early 2009 we were in economic meltdown and were about one week into the sanest, soberist Administration and even Congress over...
View ArticleFor Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation
Deven McGraw Vince Kuraitis By VINCE KURAITIS and DEVEN McGRAW Two years ago we wouldn’t have believed it — the U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019....
View ArticleTHCB Book Club: Rosemarie Day – Marching Towards Coverage
Rosemarie Day has been a long time health care consultant and operator, most prominently as the COO of the Massachusetts Health Connector–the first real state exchange that was created as part of...
View ArticlePolicies|Techies|VCs: What’s Next For Health Care–Virtual Conference is Sept...
Policies|Techies|VCs: What’s Next For Health Care? is the conference bringing together the CEOs of the next generation of virtual & real-life care delivery, and all the permutations thereof. You...
View ArticleHospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit
By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. David Dranove and Lawton Burns argued in their recent Big Med: Megaproviders and the High...
View ArticleThe Society for Participatory Medicine Presents a Creative Learning Exchange:...
I’ve been on the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine for a few years and we are kicking off a series of “Creative Learning Events”. There’ll be two in the balance of 2022 and hopefully one...
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