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Consumer-Generated Clinical Trials? Research Minus Science= Gossip

By Val Jones MD My readers know how passionate I am about protecting the public from misleading health information. I have witnessed first-hand many well-meaning attempts to “empower consumers” with...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 17 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: health 2.0, val jones, md
America's CEOs set priorities for Obama Administration

By Brian Klepper This past Monday and Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal convened an extraordinary conference of about 100 CEOs to develop and recommend issue priorities for the new Administration....

Started in The Health Care Blog • 23 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: brian klepper, conferences, economics, quality, the industry
Could a larger investment in primary care cure the health care system?

By Deron Schriver I'm going to go out on a big ol' limb here by saying that 90 percent of our health care problems could be solved by rebuilding and refocusing our primary care delivery system. It's...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: policy/politics, reform
Fighting Alzheimer's one ribbon at a time

By THCB Staff Caring.com and the Alzheimer’s Association have teamed up to spread awareness about the disease through an online Purple Ribbon campaign. The official campaign ended earlier this year...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 23 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: public health
A Great American Smokeout, but where's the coverage to help people quit?

By Mitchell Katz Today is the Great American Smokeout, and while San Franciscans are doing their part to help people battle nicotine addiction, I became aware recently that not all the health...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: public health
This isn't the early 1990s

By Sarah Arnquist Several stories in today's papers make it clear that the atmosphere for health reform today truly is different than when the Clinton Administration took over in the 1990s. Here's...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: policy/politics, reform
More on Health 2.0 & Ix Synergies

By Josh Seidman Our IxAction Alliance focused our monthly IxInsights Webinar this week on the synergies between Health 2.0 and information therapy (Ix). This marks the first of a series of activities...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Why the markets are in a panic over Obama

By Donald E. Johnson The stock market has plunged since late September when it became pretty clear that President-elect Barack Obama would become our next president in January. Why? Uncertainty....

Started in The Health Care Blog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Daschle Tapped for HHS Secretary

The Caucus, the New York Times Political Blog, reports that senior Obama aides have said that Mr. Obama offered the nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services to Tom Daschle of South...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: brian klepper, policy/politics, reform
Two Mea Culpas

By Brian Klepper Here's an attempt to recover from two mistakes yesterday. My post on our dismal prospects for real health care reform prompted a couple readers - thanks to Hal Andrews and Fred...

Started in The Health Care Blog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: brian klepper