Blogs
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business - Calvin Coolidge
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HWN Suggests
Disappointing Results of Major Study Point to Better Ways to Cut Health Care Waste
Research has established that as much as a quarter of American health spending is waste.
There are two basic ways of tackling it, by focusing narrowly on specific types of patients or on the system as a whole. The patient-centered approach starts with this fact: A relatively small group of patients — 5 percent — account for half of all health spending.
It’s widely believed that making so-called super-utilizers even a little healthier — for example, giving them extra help once they’re out of the hospital to prevent a quick return there — would yield substantial savings. This idea, based on some weak evidence, has received considerable…
Resources
Healing Hospitals
Healing Environments, Innovation and Health Leadership.
Health Business Blog
Focusing on business issues in health care.
Health Care Organizational Ethics
For discussion and debate about the ethics of health care organizations and the wider health system.
Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review
A Health Care Reform Blog——Bob Laszewski's review of the latest developments in federal health policy, health care reform, and marketplace activities in the health care financing business.
HealthBlawg
Health care providers, vendors and payors of all shapes and sizes rely on me to help them navigate the maze of regulatory and business issues facing them on a daily basis.
HIPAA Blog
A discussion of medical privacy issues buried in political arcana
HIStalk
I started writing HIStalk in 2003 simply to collect my thoughts about what was going on in the industry, which was important to my IT job. Readership grew slowly, which surprises me to this day, and I had no sponsors. While I can’t afford to make HIStalk a full-time job, it provides me with much of my personal satisfaction, so I contribute a lot of time and energy toward making it as interesting and useful as I can.
Piper Report
Kip Piper's blog on Medicare, Medicaid, health reform, and more.
The Health Care Blog
Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. The Health Care Blog (THCB) has acquired a reputation as one of the most respected independent voices in the healthcare industry.
Bill of Health
Bill of Health was launched in September 2012 by the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, but our bloggers come from all over the place. Our goal is to provide a one-stop shop for readers interested in news, commentary, and scholarship in the fields of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.
Care and Cost
This blog covers healthcare policy & regulation and the healthcare industry.
Christina's Considerations
Writings on my favorite professional topics - hospitals, workplace effectiveness, health information technology, telehealth, social media and enhancing the patient's experience.
Covering Health
Covering Health is a blog maintained by the Association of Health Care Journalists. It is intended to help keep journalists who report on health and health care issues informed about the latest news in the field, aware of noteworthy stories and reports, and able to connect with colleagues.
Drug and Device Law
This blog covers various topics that arise in the defense of pharmaceutical and medical device product liability litigation.
Enabling Healthy Decisions
Topics Of Interest In Healthcare & Communications.
Global Bioethics Blog
Promoting reflection on bioethics and research ethics issues in Sub-Saharan Africa
Healthcare Economist
Unbiased analysis of today's healthcare issues.
Healthcare IT Guy
The Healthcare IT Guy Shahid's healthcare IT, EMR, EHR, PHR, medical content, and document managment advisory service. Enjoy.
HealthLawProf Blog
A look at what is happening in health care law.
Inside HSCA
The official blog of The Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA), a broad based trade association that represents 14 group purchasing organizations (GPOs).
KevinMD.com
Social media's leading physician voice.
Managed Care Matters
Joseph Paduda's weblog on managed care for group health, workers compensation & auto insurance, covering health care cost containment, health policy, health research, and medical news for insurers, employers, and healthcare providers.
Medical Connectivity
This site, medicalconnectivity.com, is intended for use by health care providers and individuals and companies involved in the design, manufacturer, sales and support of medical devices and related health care software applications.
SCOTUSblog
Supreme Court of the United States blog.
TEDMED
TEDMED is a multi-disciplinary community of innovators and leaders who share a common determination to create a better future in health and medicine. Today’s challenges in health and medicine are rooted in a complex web of poorly understood interdependencies among social, commercial, economic, regulatory, cultural and medical issues.
The Healthcare Blog
A Blog on Healthcare from an Indian perspective.
The Population Health Blog
A contrarian, brainy and literature-based resource by Jaan Sidorov that offers jargon-free information, insights, peer-review links and musings from the world of disease management, the medical home, the chronic care model, accountable care organizations, the patient centered medical home, informatics, pay for performance, primary care, chronic illness and health insurance.
