Governor Corzine Limits the Maximum Price for Uninsured in New Jersey
Uwe Reinhart describes it here: Uwe Reinhart describes it here:Five months after the commission filed its final report, Governor Corzine introduced and New Jersey’s State Assembly passed Assembly Bill No. 2609. It limits the maximum allowable…
Day One at the Association of Healthcare Journalists Conference in Boston
Day One at the Association of Healthcare Journalists conference in Boston and I already feel like a better journalist. Today focused in part on skepticism. Day One at the Association of…
Does FTC Social Media Guidance Provide Clues for Pharma?
The pharmaceutical industry has yet to receive specific guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on social media. People are wondering if the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Not In My Name: Real Patient-Centeredness Means Sharing Power
Editor’s note: For more on engaging patients to be active participants in their own care, see the February issue of Health Affairs, “New Era Of Patient Engagement.”It is as natural…
Sequestration and Healthcare: What Organizations are Affected? (Part 1)
Summary: What does sequestration mean? What organizations are affected by the sequestration?What does it mean? Summary: What does sequestration mean? What organizations are affected by the sequestration?What does it mean?The…
Being Both “Fat” and Fit: Information About BMI and Fitness
It’s true that someone can have a body mass index (BMI) in the overweight or obese range and still be considered physically fit. The U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Health Wonk Review: The Week’s Healthcare News
It’s the golden era for health wonks. It’s the golden era for health wonks. Affordable Care Act implementation is proceeding apace while opponents keep up their attempts to maim it, Steven Brill’s…
#SXSW 2013: Top 10 Healthcare Takeaways
First posted on Educate the Young First posted on Educate the YoungThere were far too many terrific takeaways over the four days I spent at the SXSW Interactive Conference in…
ePatients: What’s the Big Deal?
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been speaking with a “ePatients” (empowered patients) about their experiences in healthcare, what they think about digital health, how they interact with providers,…
Social Media and Doctors: Q&A with Doximity CEO Jeff Tangney
Online doctor/patient relationships are the new frontier in social media. A report earlier this year discussed how medical boards would respond to different sorts of potentially inappropriate activity on social…
