Academic Medicine 70 Percent There On Lifespan Planning

Boston’s Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane in an NEJM “must-read” Doctors Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children’s Hospital Boston; and the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School — both in Boston, have written a "must-read" article […]

Knowledge Like Clear, Clean Water

The Chief Knowledge Officer of Britain’s National Health Service, Sir Muir Gray, on Health Care’s ProgressOver the last year or so, I’ve written a lot about how health care information will become increasingly available to consumers and health care business, and how this access will drive new decision-support capabilities that will profoundly change how health […]

Health Wonk Review Is Up!

Head over to The Health Care Blog for this edition of the review that brings together the best health commentary from around the Web. Over at The Health Care Blog, I’m host of this edition of Health Wonk Review, an eclectic collection of articles delving into a variety of topics on science, medicine, health policy […]

Practical Advice to Employers On Managing A Health Plan

My friend Lynn Jennings suggests ways for employers to get the most out of their health plans On blogs like this, people like me write analytically about issues which are often, at best, conceptual to us. Not so to the guys in the rough and tumble world of health care finance. I remember that the […]

On Corporate Health Care: A Response to Brian Klepper, and His Reply

Maggie Mahar, a seasoned and experienced health thinker, believes we should outlaw for-profit medicine. Here’s our exchange Maggie Mahar, the former Barron’s journalist, author of Money Driven Medicine, and Health Policy Fellow at The Century Foundation chewed on my piece about Walgreen’s recent acquisition of worksite clinic firms, and wrote a strong response outlining why […]

Eldercare Technology

A Good Source Book When I present to clinical groups a vision of home-centered health care transformation, technology is always front and center as a lever to trip the health care system toward re-orientation and reform. Why? Because of the power of virtual connectivity, individual and family empowerment, and re-centering health care on the home […]

The Importance of Barack Obama

Positive leadership on full display Last week I was running some errands and found myself in front of the Home Depot when the radio switched to live coverage of Sen. Barack Obama’s speech on race. Rather than move, I settled in to listen, because I felt the moment was historic, and it was. Whatever your […]

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