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Monday, 18 July 2011
MedNetworks CEO Larry Miller on network analytics in health care (transcript)
This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with MedNetworks CEO Larry Miller. David E. Williams: This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog.� I?m speaking today with Larry Miller.� He is CEO of MedNetworks,� a social network analytics company in health care.� Larry, thanks for speaking [...]
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Health Care Reform Developments
Some quick tidbits and news items concerning health care reform you hopefully find useful ? or at least interesting: Judge Upholds PPACA: This time the plaintiffs claimed the individual mandate provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated their religious freedom. They also argued the financial penalties were too severe. U.S. District Judge [...]
Source: http://alankatz.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/health-care-reform-developments/
Health Wonk Review is up at Boston Health News
Tinker Ready hosts a hometown hockey edition of the Health Wonk Review. Congrats Bruins! Share
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Effort to Eliminate Waste Coming Soon
It?s not that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn?t contain any provisions aimed at reducing the cost of medical care ? it?s that it doesn?t have enough of them. Still, what it has should be acknowledged. For example, Politico Pulse has reported that a unit of Health and Human Services will soon announce [...]
Source: http://alankatz.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/effort-to-eliminate-waste-coming-soon/
Broker Testimony Before NAIC Concerning MLR and Commissions
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners will be meeting in Austin, Texas this week to consider a number of issues related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One topic will be how the medical loss ratio provisions of the health care reform bill impacts brokers and consumers. A coalition of broker organizations will [...]
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Rise of People Power or Arrogance of the Academy?
Social media and the rise of the empowered patient is disrupting the cozy business of medical research and development. As I wrote last week (Let?s give patients a little more credit for their role in clinical research) even when researchers acknowledge that patients have a role in study design, recruitment and retention, that acknowledgment is [...]
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