Category Archives: health insurance

Human Nucleus: Your Analyzed Individual Genome is the Basis for Population Health In Extremis

You can know and affect your health future now. Human Longevity Institute is launching Human Nucleus, a place where you can have your genome completely analyzed into its millions of component pieces of information. That information is actionable immediately, and … Continue reading

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Health Wonk Review, The Musical

And now, for your dancing and listening pleasure, Health Wonk Review, the musical… David Harlow of HealthBlawg’s Health Wonk Review is Bustin’ Out All Over. Hat tip to Rogers and Hammerstein. Listen here. For more Harlowfun, tune in every other … Continue reading

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A Single Payer Movement: Physicians, Politicians, Policymakers Drive Efforts

In the US, a single-payer or national health plan is usually regarded as politically unfeasible. It may not be the politicians who lead the charge, however. It is the people working in the system, specifically physicians, who are being squeezed … Continue reading

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Health Wonk Review: Pivoting Toward the General Election

“The long national nightmare is going full throttle.” – Anonymous Health Wonk Review Commenter Hillarity…huckstering.         The Donald…quacking.       For the best in presidential pictorials, and health policy thrown in to make it palatable, you … Continue reading

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Under the New “Budget Neutral” MACRA Physician Payment System, Some Will Lose To Pay the Winners

She came to the urgent care center with a sprained ankle. The primary care provider gave her excellent care, expertly applying evidence-based evaluation guidelines to her situation, and, thereby, avoiding unnecessary x-rays. By all measures, the provider’s care was excellent, … Continue reading

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Health Wonk Review: The Early Bird Catches the Worm Spring Edition

Tradition is important, and it has become a Health Wonk Review tradition to have a theme for each edition. Usually, the edition’s host organizes content by topic or finds some overarching theme to propel the issue forward. In the spirit … Continue reading

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A Presidential Politics-free Health Wonk Review

Okay, people, it’s safe to come out now. Jaan Sidorov of The Population Health Blog has delivered a presidential-politics free edition of Health Wonk Review. I’m hosting the next edition in two weeks, so this may be a short reprieve. … Continue reading

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Health Wonk Review: Ahhhh, Wake Up and Smell the…Fascism???

David Williams of The Health Business Group regales readers with Tales of Trump this week in his Health Wonk Review. Thank you, David! Read it here.

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Talking Past Each Other: Patient Engagement is More Than a Slogan

By Peggy Salvatore This is one of a series of blogs posted out of the ePharma Summit 2016 where pharmaceutical marketing folks talked tech for three days. The future is here. We just need to recognize it and start using … Continue reading

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Healthcare Reform: The Path Forward

Louise Norris shows us in this week’s Health Wonk Review that while the ACA is a done deal, it isn’t over. Click here to read more.

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