By Wendy Everett As the health reform debate intensifies, the rightful role of medical technologies is stuck squarely in the middle, caught in a simplistic tug-of-war over whether these innovations raise or lower health care costs. Instead of this argument,...

By Matthew Holt I'm doing a first for THCB which is a IM chat interview. On the other side of the keyboard (so to speak) is Alexandra Carmichael who is the CEO of CureTogether.com. Hi Alex!Alexandra: Hi Matthew, nice to...

Joe Flower had this to say in response to criticism of comparative effectiveness research in the comment thread on his post ("Fear and Loathing Over the Stimulus Bill") examining the backlash against the Health IT provisions in the stimulus package...

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI The Obama budget team has made it clear they are going into the next federal budget process playing it straight on many fronts that the prior administration had fudged on. The cost of the wars, the cost...

By Matthew Holt Wellcare, the Florida based Medicaid & Medicare defense contractor HMO is in trouble again. The WSJ Health Blog which has kept excellent track of their nefarious activities including the FBI raids, and the very dubious financial dealings...

By Matthew Holt There's a pretty serious article about Yelp, which has become the dominant player in restaurant and service reviews in the SF Bay Area, in a local alternative weekly The East Bay Express called Yelp and the Business...

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Clayton Christensen's publisher is pressing me to read The Innovators Prescription and then interview him. Sadly I haven’t had the time to pay the book the attention it deserves. Messrs Kuraitis & Kibbe already did a review on THCB and...

By ROGER COLLIER Wall Street Journal editorial writers and other folk with touching faith in classic economic theory wonder from time to time why competition doesn’t work better in the health care system. (Actually, the WSJ people are sure that...

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn “The world changed yesterday at 1 pm Mountain time," Steve Lieber, President of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), told over 1,500 attendees of a webinar on February 18. These new times, Lieber said, "will require...