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By JOSHUA SEIDMAN This week the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its list of the top 100 topics that should be addressed in comparative effectiveness research (CER) now — thanks to .1 billion in the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act…

By ROGER COLLIER Key members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee announced on Thursday what they claimed were dramatically improved cost and coverage estimates for the latest version of their health care reform bill. Headed by Democratic…

CMS says that we will spend 17% of GDP on health care this year and we are on our way to having 22% of our GDP being spent for health care by 2018.The stated goal of the President and all of the Congressional health care reformers is to accomplish health care reform and have it be deficit neutral.Deficit neutral means we wouldn’t reduce our costs one bit. We would have no assurances that we would

Futurist Jeff Goldsmith’s analysis of issues that could cause problems for any health reform effort that eventually emerges from the foodfight in Washington this summer provoked a wide range of reader replies. (”No Country For Old Men”) Goldsmith wrote in…

By RAHUL PARIKH Last Wednesday’s headline in the Wall Street Journal may have surprised you. It read: “Wal-Mart Backs Drive to Make Companies Pay for Health Coverage.” The article discussed Wal-Mart’s open support for an employer mandate requiring all but…

By Matthew Holt By the time most of you read this, I’ll be heading to England to tell those Limeys how to do healthcare right the American way….or something like that, and then off to China. I’ll be back in…

Pleased client of top executive coach Tony Mayo shares her results.

Word from all those town hall meetings members of Congress are having back home this week is that lots of seniors are showing up scared that all the talk of health care reform in Washington, DC might just hurt them.The seniors’ reasoning goes that Congress is getting ready to cut Medicare in order to pay for the uninsured grandkids’ newfound access to a health insurance policy of their own.Watch

By THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMIST On the left are those who would like health reform to include a strong public plan, one that could negotiate large provider discounts, driving down the cost of medical care. On the right are those who…

By JOHN HALAMKA Over the past two years, I’ve witnessed a transition in modern website design from plain text and static information to multimedia centric and interactive. I’ve written about the new BIDMC website we implemented to meet patient expectations…