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Healthcare

Prevention in Health Care: Reforming the Debate

Stephen A. Brunton, M.D., FAAFP | Posted 05.23.2013 | Politics
Stephen A. Brunton, M.D., FAAFP

Like anything, when it comes to health care, there is a careful balance that needs to be achieved between doing what is best for the patient, and being prudent in managing costs to the system.

Reforming Flawed Incentive Models in Healthcare Systems

Amy Guan | Posted 05.17.2013 | Impact
Amy Guan

Medicare's governing body, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS), has made strides to cut healthcare spending by establishing accountable care organizations (ACOs). ACOs are groups of medical practitioners who coordinate treatment options for their patients.

How Technology Is Changing the Medical and Health Care Field

Drew Hendricks | Posted 05.15.2013 | Technology
Drew Hendricks

The medical field has always brought together the best and brightest of society to help those in need. From treating cancer and delivering babies to dealing with heart attacks, doctors haveĀ developed technology and improved techniques.

Where You Live May Have A Huge Effect On Your Drug Costs

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON — Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocat...

Validating Mrs. X

Ali Ansary | Posted 05.12.2013 | Healthy Living
Ali Ansary

Reinventing health care begins with allowing patients to be part of the decision making process, as lab results become more meaningful than a set of numbers that can either fall below, above or in between the normal range.

Your Mobile Device: Accomplice, Not Antagonist

Peggy Johnson | Posted 05.10.2013 | Technology
Peggy Johnson

Context awareness adapts to the user's interests and preferences so only the most important data will flash across the screen. The technology makes the phone smarter about you and becomes an ally which is ever more important in our technology-overloaded lives.

The High Cost of Ignoring Medical Advice

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.09.2013 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

As our healthcare system slowly begins to make the changes necessary to keep it afloat, you might get more nagging phone calls from your doctor's office, or even from your pharmacist.

Patients First (Part II)

Karl Ohaus | Posted 05.09.2013 | Healthy Living
Karl Ohaus

While health care is full of very talented and dedicated people, they are working extremely hard in systems that are, quite frankly, completely broken. Even worse, these wildly talented people are not being effectively used to fix the problems.

Medicine Spending Just Dropped For The First Time In At Least 55 Years

Reuters | Posted 05.10.2013 | Business

By Deena Beasley May 9 (Reuters) - Patent expirations on big-name drugs such as Lipitor and Plavix has resulted in modestly less spend...

An In-Depth Look At The New Realities Facing Retirees

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 05.06.2013 | Fifty
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.

Today, life in adulthood and beyond is far more like rafting down a twisting, turning whitewater river. Its length is uncertain -- you might live 70, 90 or 110 years -- and new challenges, opportunities, discoveries, and potential surprises are around each bend.

The Off-White Papers

Clayton M. Christensen | Posted 05.02.2013 | Impact
Clayton M. Christensen

At the policy level we must begin to study how momentum of technological innovation and solutions can be impeded by societal inertia caused by the identity factor.

A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation

Irwin Redlener, M.D. | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics
Irwin Redlener, M.D.

As Congress moves forward with efforts to reform immigration, quality health care should be made available to all kids.

Patients First

Luis Haro, M.D | Posted 04.29.2013 | Healthy Living
Luis Haro, M.D

I got into the health care field to save lives, and the last thing I planned on doing was to chair a committee and study process improvement. In the beginning, I asked myself how all of that ancillary activity could have anything to do with my mission and calling.

Who Should We Believe?

Deane Waldman | Posted 04.24.2013 | Impact
Deane Waldman

The single greatest strength of the Internet is its freedom: from censorship, expurgation, or adjustment. The single greatest weakness of the Internet is that very strength: anyone can put out anything no matter how wrong or biased.

Healing Our Healthcare System

Randi Weingarten | Posted 04.20.2013 | Politics
Randi Weingarten

I have yet to see a perfect piece of legislation, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare, has real flaws. But even at this early stage, its accomplishments are important.

Medicare Advantage? or DISAdvantage?

Wendell Potter | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics
Wendell Potter

The following article appeared originally on the healthinsurance.org Blog. If you're being courted by a private insurance company to enroll in one o...

Gun Control and Leadership

Daniel Dworkin | Posted 04.19.2013 | Business
Daniel Dworkin

Senators have constituents to answer to -- voters and interest groups -- and winning future elections means keeping them happy. Self-preservation is logical. Self-preservation that compromises your values and negatively impacts the country is a lack of leadership.

How I Joined The Movement For Global Health Equity

Lauren Smith | Posted 04.19.2013 | Impact
Lauren Smith

While I'd been studying the health care system with a powerful research lens, it wasn't until I heard my father's voice break as he described his ongoing battle with this broken system that I truly understood the purpose of my work.

Price Transparency in Health Care: Is It The Holy Grail?

William Pierce | Posted 04.17.2013 | Business
William Pierce

Health care is the only product or service we purchase without any idea of the price. Often, you don't even know your portion of the price. But would knowing prices up front make any difference in our behavior?

Why So Many Think Hillary Clinton Is Right for 2016

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 04.15.2013 | Politics
Peter D. Rosenstein

To all of us, a Hillary Clinton presidency will be the fulfillment of something in our lives not yet accomplished. Her election would complete so many of our hopes and dreams and finally move our nation another step closer to that "more perfect union."

Caring for Aging Parents Is Labor of Love - With a Cost

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 04.15.2013 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

There are nearly 10 million of you out there, adult children older than 50 who are caring for aging parents. We used to refer to a "sandwich" generation, those people who had children late in life, only to be confronted simultaneously with teenaged angst and parents who need more and more help.

Overweight Can Leave You Underpaid

Mache Seibel, MD | Posted 04.11.2013 | Healthy Living
Mache Seibel, MD

It's official. The United States is switching from getting well to staying well. And the reason for this sudden burst of transformation: It's not only better to stay well than to get well -- it's cheaper.

The Ugly States of the Union

Jim Worth | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Jim Worth

At a time when this country needs to pull together, when the world is embroiled in difficult financial and life-changing struggles there are states that are trying to rip our democracy apart.

LOOK: How Much It Costs To Raise A Child Today

VisualNews.com | Posted 04.10.2013 | Parents
VisualNews.com

According to some striking data presented in TurboTax's latest infographic, the average American can expect to spend between $200,000 - $500,000 on their child during the first 17 years of their young one's life.

Cancer in America

Ijeoma E. Okoli | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Ijeoma E. Okoli

Why would people buy insurance and diligently pay their premiums if not for those same insurance companies to pay out if the catastrophe for which the premiums were paid actually do occur?