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Human-Powered Floating Gym
Diet-Blog | 1 hour 9 minutes ago
How many have ever wondered at all the wasted energy in a gym? People pounding away on treadmills and stationery bikes. "All of this energy is summarily dissipated and ultimately exhausted for the sake of a single individual's wellbeing" says Mitchell Joachim - eco-designer. Joachim has the answer: A Human-Powered River Gymnasium. ...
Podcast interview with Allison Guimard, CEO of Alijor (transcript)
Health business blog | 4 hours 19 minutes ago
This is a transcript of my recent podcast interview with Alijor CEO Allison Guimard. David E. Williams: This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of The Health Business Blog. I am speaking today with Allison Guimard. She is CEO of online health care directory Alijor, which connects patients with physicians and other health [...]
Health Workforce: A Call For A National Policy
Health Affairs blog | 10 hours 20 minutes ago
Government policymakers and private-sector stakeholders have been crafting the nation s health care workforce for years without answering definitively a question that lies at the heart of the matter: should policymaking follow the values of many Americans and rely on market-based solutions, or — in this instance — does more prescriptive government regulation make more sense? [...]
Information therapy goes beyond evidenced-based info
Health Care Blog, The | 10 hours 58 minutes ago
By Joshua Seidman Joshua Seidman is the president of of the Center for Information Therapy that aims to provide the timely prescription and availability of evidence-based health information to meet individuals specific needs and support sound decision making. I had...
Doubtful McCain's health plan would accomplish any real cost savings
Health Care Blog, The | 11 hours 48 minutes ago
By Robert Laszewski John McCain is now the presumptive Republican nominee for president. As a result, what he thinks about health care policy will be out front in the presidential campaign this fall. McCain s thinking couldn t be more different from...
Cost containment is the missing link in Obama's health plan
Health Care Blog, The | 11 hours 54 minutes ago
By Robert Laszewski Barack Obama s health care plan follows the Democratic template an emphasis on dramatically and quickly increasing the number of people who have health insurance by spending significant money upfront. The Obama campaign estimates his health care reform plan...
Why Do We Waste So Much Food?
Diet-Blog | 12 hours 49 minutes ago
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the UK, gave a speech during the G8 summit to exhort Britons to stop wasting food. In a time of global food shortages and dramatic price increases on staples such as bread and rice, Brown said that "It is right to remind people that about 8 [$16] a week is wasted in our food...
Obama health plan, silliness
Health Care Blog, The | 14 hours 44 minutes ago
By Matthew Holt Enter David Cutler. Result is more silly meaningless numbers It is truly worrying when the single most sensible quote in the whole damn article comes from AEI s Joe Antos. How is this worth the NY Times ...
Your doctor says you have six months to live. Should you believe him?
Healthcare Economist | 17 hours 10 minutes ago
Your doctor says you have six months to live. How accurate is this figure? Do you really have 4 moths to live? One year? A paper by Alexander and Christakis (2008) analyzes physicians predictions of patient survival. The authors find that physicians systematically overestimate how long the patient will live. This bias [...]
Conde Nast Portfolio shines a light on Questcor
Health business blog | 19 hours 27 minutes ago
Writing for Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com (Drug Money), Russ Mitchell tells the story of Questcor’s almost 20-fold boost in the price of H.P. Achtar Gel, a treatment for infantile spasms. The article does a nice job recounting the story behind this move and the impact it’s having on physicians and patients. I’ve written a fair bit [...]
Locking out lock-in pricing
Health business blog | 19 hours 45 minutes ago
In Medicare Moves To Limit Costs In Drug Plans the Wall Street Journal discusses “lock-in pricing,” whereby Medicare agrees to pay pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBMs) a fixed priced for a given drug, but the PBM can keep the difference if they negotiate a lower price from the manufacturer. The Journal has adopted an uncharacteristically populist [...]
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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
Just another WordPress weblog
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