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• Another Great Swindle: Doctors, Hospitals, Pharma as Much to Blame as Insurers

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  While the health insurance industry’s immoral, amoral and, sometimes, illegal treatment of policyholders is an appropriate prime culprit and target in the current push for reform, the fact is that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 days ago

• Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio

  
  2parse — Authority: 126
  Kaiser Permanente . Ezra Klein interviewed Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson this week – and got two fascinating posts out of it so far (with the second part of the interview still to come.) The most interesting post for me was the one that included a number of graphs , including this one.  Ezra bills these ...
  3 days ago

• Berkeley Psych on Teenagers, Depression, Sleep and the Internet

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 483
  A weird foursome: could it be that teenagers prone to depression sleep less and use the internet more, resulting in worse depression and tossing them into a real nasty sleep minimizing, internet and depression maximizing situation? Of course we, sound and sturdy early twenty-somethings that we are, are far beyond ...
  4 days ago

• I’d Laugh If I Wasn’t Screaming

  
  Media and Mayhem — Authority: 121
  Absolutely and mind-bogglingly astounding. Today, in a compelling demonstration of just how compassionate and altruistic some people can be, thousands of people with health insurance gathered on capitol hill to protest a bill that would provide some coverage for those who are not covered . What happened to ...
  4 days ago

• Presentation: Prevention and Screening – Informatics for Consumer Health

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 428
  Below are high quality images of the slides I presented at the Informatics for Consumer Health Summit, at the Bolger Center for Leadership , in Potomac, MD. I didn’t know the U.S. Postal Service had such a nice facility, I guess that is a part of the fun of discovering new parts of this part of the country. ...
  4 days ago

• Kaiser Permanente: Save Trees and Thrive

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 524
  Kaiser Permanente is prescribing big doses of sustainability in the sixth season of its $50 million Thrive ad campaign. Two new ads – Emerald Cities and Connected – reinforce the health care provider’s commitment to the planet by dramatically reducing paper use – no small task for an industry long married to ...
  4 days ago

• Health Insurance Companies Pushing Alternative Medicine to Cut Costs?

  
  VitalOne Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 134
  Health insurance companies are constantly in search of ways to save money.  Some of their methods, such as refusing to cover those with pre-existing conditions that their underwriters deem too high risk, have drawn fire from consumers and politicians. Now, some insurers are promoting alternative medicine. With some ...
  5 days ago

• 45 Million Uninsured: Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?

  
  BASIL & SPICE--HEALTHCARE ISSUES! — Authority: 113
  By Loyd Eskildson Almost everybody already knows that American health care costs about double that of other developed nations, that about 45 million Americans lack health insurance , and that health care costs are the leading cause of bankruptcy in America. Thus, Washingtons efforts at reforming health care by ...
  5 days ago

• Let’s Compare US Health Care Costs With Other Countries

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  The Wash Post’s Ezra Klein interviewed the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and found massive differences when looking at health care costs in the US and other countries. Yes, it’s not even close. read more
  6 days ago

• Nations hip fracture rate could drop 25 percent with aggressive osteoporosis prevention

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 617
  November 2, 2009 (Downey, Calif.) -- Aggressively managing patients at risk for osteoporosis could reduce the hip fracture rate in the United States by 25 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente
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• Why American Health Care Is So Expensive

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Ezra Klein , channeling Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. As Halvorson explained, and academics and consultancies have repeatedly ...
  1 week ago

• What is a Yacker Tracker – Ask Kaiser About Noise Control in Hospitals

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  I think everyone who has been in a hospital for care at some point in time can agree, they can be noisy.  The Yacker Tracker at the facility in Hawaii helps keep this in check.  Not only do we monitor data today, but add noise to the list too.  It looks very similar to a traffic signal.  They also have a “low ...
  1 week ago

• Innovation Learning Network In Person Meeting – Boston

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 428
  I enjoy participating in the Innovation Learning Network because it brings parts of health care and other industries interested in the improvement of the art, science, and technology we use in health care rather than in those things themselves. Plus the people are great; and I don’t mean ...
  1 week ago

• Oh for a health care monopsony

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 423
  Those who blame for-profit health insurers for high U.S. health care costs usually focus on administrative and marketing costs. As Ezra Klein has highlighted , however, these are difficult to calculate; theyre not always significantly higher in the private sector than in the public; and they dont fly as a primary ...
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• The Kaiser Permanente BioBank - 100k Volunteers and Growing

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 598
  Kaiser has collected more than 100,000 genetic and medical profiles using spit collection kits like this one. It stands to reason that if you want to perform genetic research, you are going to need some genetic samples. While you could always go out and collect your own, Kaiser Permanente is doing much of the work ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obese women retain pregnancy weight a year later

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): A new study has shown that obese women who gain more than recommended during pregnancy are likely to retain a portion of that weight up to an year after giving birth.The researchers found that most of the obese women gained too much weight during pregnancy, then, on average, kept on 40 [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Kaiser Permanente Patients To Participate in the Creation of A Massive Genetic Data Base

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  The results will be available for scientists to analyze and study, to determine if certain environmental conditions impact the presence of a disease in a certain area for one example.  The electronic medical record information contained in the Kaiser medical records data base will also contribute valuable ...
  2 weeks ago

• FTC Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 428
  FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials – I have been studying this carefully (at the link above). Here’s the “blogging” example from the document: Example 8: A consumer who regularly purchases a particular brand of dog food decides one day to purchase a new, more expensive brand ...
  2 weeks ago

• California High Risk Health Insurance

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 126
  Effective January 1, Blue Shield of California will be removed from the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program (MRMIP) because their premiums were substantially higher than the rates offered by the other two insurers that make up the Program. The MRMIP currently covers almost 7,000 California residents who are unable ...
  2 weeks ago

• Epic Medical and Apple Working on Mobile EHR Project with iPhones – Stanford Medical

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  Stanford Hospital and Clinics started a trial program recently with Apple, as they also use Epic.  Why does this not surprise me?  Epic has to be the most popular large hospital software around today and the iPhone the same for cell phones.  I did an interview earlier this year with Long Beach Memorial on their ...
  3 weeks ago

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