By Matthew Holt SUBTEXT: Jamie Heywood, Co-Founder and Chairman of PatientsLikeMe, spoke at the recent Health 2.0 DC conference. While on stage, Heywood issued a challenge to federal agencies to "change what we pay for." SEE ALSO: Heywood is among...

By JOHN GOODMAN President and CEO, National Center for Policy Analysis Let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose you were a U.S. Senator and the President’s nominee to head CMS appeared at his confirmation hearing: Wearing a Che Guevera t-shirt, sporting...

By Matthew Holt A few weeks back we welcomed John Goodman as a contributor at THCB. His first column was more than a tad critical of me for impugning the ethics of Harvard Business School Prof Regina Herzlinger. Herzlinger, you...

By ROGER COLLIER The individual mandate is the single most controversial feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Everyone who can afford coverage—unless an undocumented immigrant or exempted on religious grounds—is required to have it or pay a...

At the Sidney R. Garfield Innovation Center, Kaiser Permanente's patients, doctors, nurses, architects and engineers use elements of human-centered design to improve and to innovate physical spaces, technologies and clinical operations in a unique, “movie-set”-style warehouse. Many of these innovations...

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Washington DC Conference Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the US Government, gave a keynote address on incorporating new capabilities into the nation's healthcare system. One of the topics that he spoke to...

By DAVID HARLOW The federales announced a new set of HIPAA regulations today (to be published in the Federal Register on July 14) in a press conference featuring Kathleen Sebelius (HHS Secretary), Georgina Verdugo (HHS OCR Director) and David Blumenthal...

By KENT BOTTLES, MD St. Augustine: “Fallor ergo sum” When I was in charge of the medical residency programs in Grand Rapids, Michigan, David Leach introduced me to the expanded Dreyfus Model of how physicians can progress from beginners to...

By BOB WACHTER, MD The recess appointment of Don Berwick to lead CMS can be seen as a cynical act of political opportunism, sidestepping the Congressional approval process using a tactic worthy of Machiavelli, or Karl Rove. Or it can...

By Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt Today is the formal kick-off of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. The challenge was first announced by Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra on June 2 at the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) meeting, and it's...

Former Republican Senator Dave Durenberger was always the sensible Republican on health care. He now hangs out in a small institute called the National Institute of Health Policy at a small Minnesota college called the University of St. Thomas. Every...

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Goes to DC conference Esther Dyson gave a powerpacked 3 minute rant about how the Health ecosystem really works -- dividing it into three markets: Healthcare, Bad Health and Health 2.0.

By MAGGIE MAHAR Tuesday night the White House Blog explained: “In April, President Obama nominated Dr. Donald Berwick to serve as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Many Republicans in Congress have made it clear in...

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Last week, yet another alarming Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) study made headlines. According to Healthcare IT News, The Leapfrog Group, a staunch advocate of CPOE, is now “sounding the alarm on untested CPOE” as their new...

By Matthew Holt Gena Cook is the CEO of Navigating Cancer, a new Health 2.0 company aiming at getting cancer patients online with their care providers. Gena tracked me down in a Starbucks in Seattle (oxymoron I know) when I...

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 June conference in DC Chief Technology Officer of the US Health & Human Services, Todd Park, participated in the panel discussion on Health 2.0's role in a world of "Data Liberacion". He spoke...

By JEFF GOLDSMITH More than a year after glimpsing “green shoots” of economic recovery, President Obama saw nothing but parched brown in June’s employment numbers. The continuing stream of bad economic news is a far greater threat to his Presidency...

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for June 2010. You can get the current issue here. E-prescribing. Not much to report here other than some feedback to the DEA around its long-awaited proposed rule...

By Matthew Holt I'm trying to get better about putting my KOMO radio spots up here, if only because trying to be coherent about a topic in a couple or 45 second soundbites is pretty hard and therefore good practice....

By Matthew Holt I get emails from PR companies all the time pimping this or that client, but they don't get a lot stranger than this one. (I‘ve hidden the names to protect the guilty): Subject: Top 3 Reasons Why...