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You Can Get Your Health Data

by Admin 09.26.2011

Here at Health 2.0 there is definitely an air of transformation. Several initiatives that I had been following have come to fruition, or at least to critical mass, among them implementation of EMRs and patient communities. MedHelp now has over 12 million visitors a month, while millions of women annually visit the women’s social health [...]

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Half of Consumers Think Health Care Spending is Wasted

by Admin 08.26.2011

We appear to have “bent the curve” in health care spending last year; national health spending grew at a historically unprecedented low of  3.9%. That’s including all national health expenditures — private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and out-of-pocket expenses. You would think this was a good thing, right? But according to Deloitte’s new survey, not [...]

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Can We Lower Health Costs Through Prevention? Not so Fast

by Admin 06.02.2011

Everyone in health IT is looking at the proliferation of mobile devices and wireless communications capacity and they are salivating. Now, they say, we are finally going to be able to monitor the vital signs, activity levels, food intake, lifestyle habits of patients and use all this information for prevention. Remote monitoring will bring about [...]

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Can Berwick Save Medicare Before Congress Throws Him Out?

by Admin 05.22.2011

I had the good fortune to flip the radio dial to CSPAN this morning and hear Dr. Donald Berwick talk about his job as director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Berwick probably won’t be confirmed by a Republican Congress, but he is working day by day, and seems to be enjoying [...]

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