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The fifth challenge for the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge has just been announced. Keas, the health and wellness data-driven platform, has opened up their API and a development environment to anyone who wants to author a "social Care Plan." In...

By Matthew Holt Subtext: In the DC panel debate on the Role of "Data Liberacion" Executive Chairman of Abraxis Health, Patrick Soon-Shiong, commented on how coordination and exchange of health data can improve healthcare and have a direct impact on...

By DAVID HARTZBAND Today was a big day in health care information technology (HIT). There are so many acronyms in HIT that I probably should publish a list, not today though. The Office of the National Coordinator of HIT (ONC)...

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The long anticipated final rule on Meaningful Use was unveiled yesterday with much pomp and circumstance in a rather unusual ceremony which, interestingly, also marked the first public appearance of Dr. Berwick as CMS Administrator. The Final...

By Matthew Holt In this part of the panel debate on the Role in a World of "Data Liberacion" founder of Chordoma Foundation Josh Sommer tells the story about how he was diagnosed with Chordoma and how he funded the...

By Matthew Holt Absolutely hot off the recorder, here's my interview with David Blumenthal, the Obama administration's National Coordinator for Health IT. David and I discuss patient communication, why the percentages of certain criteria were reduced, and how to get...

By Matthew Holt More than a year or so of squabbling is (sort of) over and today HHS announced its criteria for the first phase of meaningful use. Essentially the 25 criteria for qualifying for “meaningful use” (in other words...

By PAUL LEVY What is the important thing Don Berwick could do as head of CMS to improve quality and reduce the cost of health care? Let's face it, as head of a humongous agency, it is hard to make...

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.