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# 2012-05-20 05:00:03, Not Running a Hospital
#healthfoo The self-creating Health Foo camp/conference continued yesterday with many engaging presentations and discussions.

The Science of Judo and Other Unpredictable Sports

# 2012-05-19 23:15:23, The Doctor Weighs In
 

Health and Digital Moms – Getting Underneath the Hood of the Mobile Mom

# 2012-05-19 18:48:40, The Doctor Weighs In
 

Telemedicine Coming Soon to a Pharmacy Near You: HealthSpot

# 2012-05-19 17:59:36, The Doctor Weighs In
 

I became a bobble head

# 2012-05-19 16:34:05, db's Medical Rants
At our regional medical campus graduation, the graduating students gave me this present.

Medicare Physician Payment: The RUC’s Hollow Victory

# 2012-05-19 09:43:31, Care And Cost
Brian Klepper Posted 5/18/12 on The Health Affairs Blog On May 9th, William Nickerson, Senior Judge in the Southern Maryland Federal District Court, issued a 15 page ruling against the six Augusta, GA primary care physician plaintiffs who challenged HHS’ and CMS’ … Continue reading →

Care & Cost Going Forward

# 2012-05-19 09:49:53, Care And Cost
Brian Klepper On May 13th, I announced that I would merge C&C into The Doctor Weighs In, a process that I have already begun in earnest. I meant that I would not longer actively aggregate and re-post great health care … Continue reading →

Happy 10th blogiversary to me #10yrsblog

# 2012-05-19 06:49:01, db's Medical Rants
Ten years, even though I have been typing this blog for the entire time, it really seems incredible.

Health Foo 2012

# 2012-05-18 22:20:00, Not Running a Hospital
After about a year's interval, it is the return of Health Foo to Cambridge.

Medicare Physician Payment: A Hollow Victory for the RUC

# 2012-05-18 17:02:37, The Doctor Weighs In
 

Invisalign Mesa, AZ Teen Clear Braces Elite Provider Robison Orthodontics

# 2012-05-18 16:04:23, Mesa AZ Invisalign Braces
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How The ACA Would Have Cut 2001-08 Out-Of-Pocket Spending Under Individual Coverage

# 2012-05-18 14:10:01, Health Affairs Blog
Currently, individual health insurance typically has less generous benefits than employment-related insurance. However, under the Affordable Care Act, individual insurance will probably become more generous and more like employment-related insurance. For a Health Affairs May 16 Web First study, Stev...

U.S. Suggests All Baby Boomers Should Get Tested for Hepatitis C

# 2012-05-18 15:24:42, Health Blog
U.S. health officials are proposing all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C, because they’re five times more likely than other adults to have the potentially fatal liver virus and many might not know they’re at risk.

When Technology IS the Cure

# 2012-05-18 14:45:01, The Doctor Weighs In
 

Experts get creative in protecting patient IDs in audit trails

# 2012-05-18 09:16:07, Health IT News
A body that advises the state of Massachusetts about health information exchanges has devised an unusual approach to maintaining the privacy of patient information while allowing the use of audit trails.In a recent blog post, John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, expla...

MGMA wants 'staggered' ICD-10 implementation

# 2012-05-18 12:48:33, Health IT News
In a letter sent this week to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, Medical Group Management Association President Susan Turney reiterates the organization's position from March that the ICD-10 process, as currently outlined, lacks several steps.Turney w...

Genetic tests don't drive demand for follow-up care

# 2012-05-18 13:11:06, Health IT News
New research published this week in the journal Genetics in Medicine suggests that patients who do undergo genetic testing aren't likely to demand abnormal levels of follow-up tests or other care.The work is part of The Multiplex Initiative--a project involving the National Institutes of Health ...

HL7 wants more doc participation in EHR standards creation

# 2012-05-18 10:22:14, Health IT News
Health Level Seven International wants more providers involved in the process of creating electronic health records standards. To that end, the organization, which focuses on interoperability standards for healthcare IT, this week unveiled a pilot membership program for clinicians, as well as an acc...

Should hospitals risk going broke for Meaningful Use?

# 2012-05-18 11:52:07, Health IT News
Should officials at cash-strapped hospitals go all-in on electronic health record systems in hopes of receiving a big return via incentive dollars, even if it means spending beyond their means? While Hospitals & Health Networks' Haydn Bush outlines one hospital's attempt at doing so, healths...

Medicare Physician Payment: A Hollow Victory For The RUC

# 2012-05-18 10:53:27, Health Affairs Blog
On May 9th, William Nickerson, Senior Judge in the Southern Maryland Federal District Court, issued a 15 page ruling against the six Augusta, GA primary care physician plaintiffs who challenged HHS’ and CMS’ longstanding relationship with the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale...

Hygieia’s DIGS Automatic Insulin Titration Device Shows Promise; Company Talks to Medgadget

# 2012-05-18 12:33:11, Medgadget
An experimental new device called Diabetes Insulin Guidance System (DIGS) from Hygieia, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) is being developed to automate insulin dosage titration in patients with type I and type II diabetes, based on measurements of blood glucose and analysis of patterns in the obtained data. The...

Medgadget Interviews Eric Berdinis and Jeff Kiske, Creators of the Kinecthesia Haptic Belt for Blind...

# 2012-05-18 11:11:23, Medgadget
Over the years we have been fortunate to cover numerous student designed medical devices and we are always amazed by the innovation and creativity demonstrated by these teams. In November of last year we covered one such project, the Kinecthesia, a haptic belt which allows the wearer to virtually ...

NIH Director Francis Collins on Speeding Up Arrival of New Disease Treatments

# 2012-05-18 11:16:52, Medgadget
Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, spoke at the last TEDMED about the challenges of converting fundamental research into practical therapeutics. In addition to proposing new approaches like repurposing of drugs and using manufactured human tissue for testing new compound...

UCSD Electronic Wireless Tattoo Receives Grant from the Gates Foundation

# 2012-05-18 11:20:51, Medgadget
Last week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced its latest round of grant winners for its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. Among the recipients is a team from the University of California, San Diego and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that is developing a tiny, flexib...

HCMS Group Epilepsy Research Published in Research Journal

# 2012-05-18 10:49:57, HCMS Group
HCMS Group is proud to announce that their epilepsy research, conducted along with Pfizer, Inc. and neurologists from the Universities of Alabama and Arizona, has been published in the journal Epilepsy Research. The article is titled “Costs, work absence, and adherence in patients with partial o...

A.M. Vitals: FDA OKs Generic Plavix

# 2012-05-18 09:15:38, Health Blog
Also: A CDC report says drowning is the No. 1 cause of injury death in children aged 1-4; researchers map the genetic code of 21 breast cancers; and food companies and consumer groups press for stalled food regulation.

Matt Herper mixes Facebook and medicine

# 2012-05-18 09:58:04, PharmaGossip
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/05/18/four-ways-to-make-medicine-more-like-facebook/?

Not enough. Now, to the House.

# 2012-05-18 05:09:00, Not Running a Hospital
According to its press release, the health care bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate yesterday does this:Develops a process to track price variation among different health care providers over time and establishes a Special Commission to determine and quantify the acceptable and unacceptable fac...

Achieving Inner Peace

# 2012-05-18 00:19:57, The Doctor Weighs In
 

Coffee: Your Passport to Health and Longevity

# 2012-05-18 00:51:29, The Doctor Weighs In