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Monday Morning Update 11/9/09
HIStalk | 20 minutes ago
I decided it was time to update the About page, which answers questions I m sometimes asked (why did I start HIStalk, why am I anonymous, how I decide what to write about, etc.) Respondents to my most recent poll have a slight preference for not having the FDA regulate clinical software. [...]
Health Reform: "We The People," Not "We The Government"
Medinnovation Blog | 2 hours 34 minutes ago
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. United States Constitution, 1787Governments derive their just power from the consent of the government.Declaration of Independence, 1776That government is best that go...
Innovation at the Point of Care: Portable Untrasound
Medinnovation Blog | 8 hours 4 minutes ago
Donald Copeland, M.D.,a family physician in Cornelius, North Carolina, once suggested to me that a portable ultrasound machine in doctors offices would be a significant innovation in expanding the therapeutic and diagnostic reach of office based physicians.Among other things, a portable office machine could be used to, To guide needle biopsies of breast, thyroid, and soft tissue masses To guide therapeutic injections , such as cortisone shots into joints, local anesthesia nerve blocks T...
Eleven Health Reform Agreements
Medinnovation Blog | 10 hours 11 minutes ago
1) Let us agree that the American people are coming to the conclusion, with respect to the economy as a whole, and health care in particular, that we are trying and promising to do too much, too soon, for too much money, with too few proven savings, with too much debt with too little results. 2) Let us agree that all parties in the reform effort,Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, have good intentions - to bring better health care to more people at lower costs but in a complex syste...
We the Consumers
Health Care Blog, The | 11 hours 16 minutes ago
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE There has been much talk lately about the Consumer movement in health care. The health insurance industry has given us the Consumer Driven Health Care (CDHC), which has gained much traction in the marketplace in the form...
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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.