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Health Reform: It's Cultural Expectations Stupid!
Medinnovation Blog | 3 hours 50 minutes ago
This week, the science of medicine bumped up against the foundations of American medical consumerism: that more is better, that saving a life is worth any sacrifice, that health care is a birthright.Kevin Sack, Screening Debate Reveals Culture Clash in Medicine, New York Times, November 20, 2009For at least three years, starting with Voices of Health Reform and more recently with Obama, Doctors, and Health Reform, I have been writing American Culture and American s Health Care Expectations...
So will the public option hurt hospitals? Not in the Ozarks
Health Care Blog, The | 21 hours 35 minutes ago
By Matthew Holt I've had this sitting in my inbox a while, but I thought that with the Senate bill out it was time to have a bit of weekend fun with it. The topic is the fear that a...
The Senate Bill: Abortion And The Individual Mandate s Constitutionality
Health Affairs Blog | 22 hours 19 minutes ago
Abortion. Early drafts of the health reform legislation attempted to ignore the issue of abortion, but in American politics, abortion is an issue that refuses to be ignored. The problem is that current federal law only permits public funding for abortions involving rape, incest, or physical endangerment to the life of the mother. Many private [...]
The Senate Bill: Getting Into The Details
Health Affairs Blog | 23 hours 50 minutes ago
My first post presented a broad overview of the Senate bill, HR 3590 and a more detailed analysis of the bill s provisions that go into effect prior to the 2014 general effective date. This post will examine in detail four additional issues that arise under the bill s insurance reforms. There are 1) how the bill [...]
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Health Care Blog, The
Everything you wanted to know about the health care system. But were afraid to ask.
David Harlow's Health Care Law Blog
New developments in health care law and policy together with the observations and analysis of David Harlow
Medinnovation Blog
Medical technologies and medical innovation blog
Health Affairs Blog
An ongoing dialogue on health policy issues of concern to a diverse audience of interested readers.
eHealth blog
eHealth and health IT blog from an IT Project Manager for a major medical center
Hospital Impact
What will it take for hospitals to be the best run organizations on the face of the planet?
e-HealthExpert.org
An open forum to support the development of expertise in the field of e-Health
Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog
Blog about improving healthcare quality through information technology and consumer education
HIT Transition Weblog, The
Analysis and perspective on standards development, policy and implementation in Healthcare IT from Marty Jensen and Michael Christopher of HITTG.
HIStalk
Healthcare IT news and opinion
RHIO Monitor/Trusted.MD
Trusted.MD Network - RHIO Monitor
Candid CIO
Will Weider shares what he has learned through his mistakes and other crazy things in the life of a healthcare CIO.