A Public-Private Partnership to Fix Health Care
By BILL ROSENBERG The Administration proposal that would enable small employers to band together to purchase health insurance by forming Association Health Plans has several good features. Large compa... Read More
HLTH & Healthcare — My tweetstorm on the HLTH conference
By MATTHEW HOLT This week was the very flash, very well marketed and apparently rather fun HLTH conference. As you might guess, given I’ve run a somewhat similar conference in a similar space for th... Read More
Trump and Rx Drug Prices: Let the Games Begin
By STEVEN FINDLAY President Trump is scheduled to deliver a major speech on drug prices today. This post is intended to start a dialogue on what he says and proposes. It’s unclear whether ... Read More
Lack of Financial Incentives for Preventive Interventions
One of the barriers to infection control and antimicrobial stewardship is the lack of financial support from third-party payers, such as insurance companies and medicare. For example, wouldn’t i... Read More
Empowering Patients through Decentralized Information Governance
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD Seema Verma is right, US health care will be transformed if we empower patients and physicians through access to information. Don Rucker is right to focus attention on APIs to en... Read More
The AmWell – Avizia Merger and the Evolution of Telehealth
By ALAN PITT Last week Avizia, where I’ve been the Chief Medical Officer since 2014, was acquired by American Well (AmWell). From my perspective, the merger made perfect sense. Avizia has been focus... Read More
Trump’s Docs
BySTEVEN FINDLAY It’s now clear that two public assessments of President Trump’s health since 2015—the only ones we know about—were seriously compromised. The import of this has been ecli... Read More
MedStar Franklin Center: The Case Against Global Capitation
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Baltimore County, Maryland is one hour north of Washington DC, where politicians appear impotent to contain runaway healthcare expenditures. In January 2014, the Centers for Med... Read More