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Incoming President Of IOM Outed As Member Of Boards Of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic And Pepsico
We just discussed how the new CEO of the National Quality Forum was revealed to be a member of the board of directors of Premier Inc, and discussed the implications of this apparently intense conflict of interest. Read More »
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Increasing Transparency, Activating Patients: The Case For Open Medical Notes
A group of health leaders, consumer advocates, and medical professionals are gathering in Washington, D.C., today to advance a simple idea that I see as transformational—having doctors make medical notes available to their patients so they can become more engaged in their care. Read More »
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Insurance Industry Myths About the Uninsured
In 2007, a few months before I left the health insurance industry, I was tasked to write a “white paper” designed to help convince media folks and politicians that the problem of the uninsured wasn’t much of a problem after all. If demographic data was sliced just so, I was expected to write, it was easy to conclude that many of the uninsured — some 46 million at the time — were that way by choice.
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Intel And Pitney Bowes Inc. Offer Dossia Personal Health Record To Employees
Two additional members of the Dossia Consortium are empowering their employees to control healthcare spending and improve health and wellness Read More »
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InterchangeSM By Kaiser Permanente Unleashes The Power Of Digital Health Through Open API
Kaiser Permanente announced today the launch of its first application programming interface program, InterchangeSM by Kaiser Permanente. Read More »
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Internet For All: Alliance For Affordable Internet Founded
The newly formed Alliance for Affordable Internet will attempt to drive down Internet prices throughout the developing world. Read More »
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IRIN Examines Whether Poverty Reduction Schemes Can Help Lower TB Rate in Developing Countries
IRIN examines "whether a new generation of social protection schemes, aimed at reducing poverty and often using cash transfers to the poorest, can be harnessed to bring down the rate of [tuberculosis (TB)] in developing countries." Read More »
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Is Big Pharma Standing In The Way Of Curing The New SARS?
Middle East Respiratory Symptom coronavirus (MERS-CoV), better known as the new SARS cousin that is efficiently killing people in Saudi Arabia, has been described by the World Health Organization as "a threat to the entire world." Read More »
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Is Big Pharma Standing In The Way Of Curing The New SARS?
Middle East Respiratory Symptom coronavirus (MERS-CoV), better known as the new SARS cousin that is efficiently killing people in Saudi Arabia, has been described by the World Health Organization as "a threat to the entire world."... Read More »
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Is Roz Diane Lasker, MD on Your Radar Screen?
This resource-rich post comes from NCDD member Max Hardy, Director of Twyfords — a prominent consultancy that works throughout Australia and New Zealand. Max is co-author of the just-published book The Power of Co: The Smart Leaders’ Guide to Collaborative Governance. Is Roz on your radar screen? Read More »
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Is Screening Good For You?
More experts are questioning the practice of screening in particular cases – the testing of apparently healthy populations for underlying risk factors or undiagnosed conditions, such as some cancers, with a view to prevention or early treatment. Supporters of screening sometimes respond to their critics with more heat than light, but I don’t know who is right. Read More »
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Israeli Health Monitor Hopes To Spur Medical Innovation
When Eugene Jorov was 17, his father, who was just 40, had a fatal heart attack. That was the moment when Mr. Jorov knew what he wanted to do. A keen engineer, he wanted to use technology to stop people dying early like his father. The Tel Aviv-based startup Angel is his answer. Read More »
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Italian Court Rules MMR Vaccine Caused Autism: US Media Blacks Out Story
The debate over vaccines continues as an Italian court ruled in favor of the Bocca family whose nine-year-old son became autistic after receiving the MMR (Measles/Mumps & Rubella) vaccine. I came across this case and felt it was a good idea to report on this as the vaccine debate has been a hot topic here lately. Read More »
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ITU And Continua Heath Alliance To Host E-Health Interop Event
ITU and Continua Health Alliance are organizing an event to analyze recent developments in the e-health sphere, shed light on emerging product offerings, and assess the interoperability of e-health solutions developed in accordance with Continua’s Design Guidelines. Read More »
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It’s Time To Change American Disease-Management Into A Health-Fostering System
I’ve recently written a couple of articles about the exorbitant cost of medical care in the US, which is incompatible with the poor health outcomes of Americans at large. Americans pay the most for but reap the least amount of benefits from their health care, compared to other industrialized nations... Read More »
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